Blue Magic Skill Buffs

I was looking thru a list someone else made for blue magic buff spells affected by skill.

Barrier Tusk
Diamondhide
Magic Barrier
Metallic Body
Plasma Charge
Pyric Bulwark
Reactor Cool
Occultation

Magic Barrier, metallic body, Diamondhide and Occultation are clear on how skill affects them. However the rest don't have any such description on bg-wiki.

Is this a mistake or is there some information missing?

Plasma Charge has no skill related effect. So that ones a mistake.

Easy enough to verify, 0 skill should do 15 damage, 900 skill should remain 15 damage.

(MAB does increase spike damage though)

For the same reason, reactor cool may be as well.

Barrier Tusk is interesting. It not only does -15% damage taken but also gives MDB and MEVA

This is wholly unknown to NA players, if true.

I don't know what you're talking about, but the Marid version of Barrier Tusk is different than the blue magic version. The BLU spell just gives base phalanx effect and phalanx+ gear doesn't work on it. Blue Magic Skill doesn't affect it either. JP wiki lists all of these details.

Standard response to any Eiryl post fyi

among those only skill effects magic barrier, diamondhide, occulation, and metallic body. If skill is doing anything for plasma charge/reactor cool id guess its effecting the accuracy of the spikes

I guess it does differentiate marid barrier tusk from blue barrier tusk.

Should've looked more closerer

What does blue skill do for Pyric Bulwark?

I'd even argue Metallic Body and Diamondhide don't really belong in the list. Both cap at 500 and BLU already gets 460 at 99. With ML 40 you're capped without any +skill gear and even if you were ML0, a 100% blue skill focused midcast set would most likely overshoot the 40 extra points by far. ML7 isn't too much to ask and at that point you can cast with Hashishin Tayt +3 to cap metallic body and equip fast recast in the rest of the slots.

It's so disappointing that BLU has to carry a full set just for 2 spells while other mages respective skills affect most of their tool set.

Never gonna happen but skill playing a role in duration similar to how smn buffs work would be nice.

BLU needs some form of buff duration enhancement. +20% attack is amazing. Having it last 90 seconds blows. Make it cost more MP if necessary, idc.

I don't know what you are talking about Barrier Tusk isn't player Phalanx hence why its not effected by phalanx+ gear. Barrier Tusk is DT-15% and DTII-7.5% when at 50% DT cap, it says all this on BGWiki and the JPWiki.

Meaning it gives the buff of phalanx, it just isnt actually phalanx

Hell, have Azure Lore increase duration to make the SP worth using for something.

Or maybe one of BLU's other lame JAs. Turn Convergence into a RDM Composure equivalent (increase recast, but also increase duration of buffs on self)? Change Efflux effect to be something worth thinking about?


Which is so annoying when you have 5 Herculean pieces with Phalanx+ augments! (still fishing for an upgrade to my Phalanx+4 body lol)

The reason /RDM still retains a niche, but man it sure would be nice if they made Tusk just actually BE normal Phalanx.

Its situationally better than phalanx, real annoyance rounds back to the more annoying issue of blu buffs; duration is ***

BLU Composure When

(dammit)

A blue mage stance would be really cool if it went with the lore. Something that had positive and negative affects to the timing of the buff(s) and how it effects gear and thus the player.

They could just add blue magic to enhancing duration gear and solve the problem right there. Would be such a huge quality of life upgrade.

only reason i think that could be an issue is enhancing magic duration was a blanket skill type boost, for blu they'd have to add in the individual spells. No idea how easy/difficult that would be, though would assume not hard.