New Blu Spells And Locations

Any Info would be great on obtaining these new spells. Such as best place to learn and what mobs use it frequently. Any findings on this topic would be great to compile for other curious blu's like myself. thanks ^^

Here's the link to the website I use for hunting BLU magic, its a great site, a bit on the simple side though.
Blue Magic Hunting Grounds

Hadhayosh was simple to learn thunderbolt from, 2 blus went and it went down rather easy

The Hunting grounds often overexagerates the difficulty of certain mobs.
I just Soloed Waugyl with no difficulty as Evasion setup 95 BLU/NIN. Set included +27 evasion, 358 Evasion skill, 17 Subtle Blow (combined with trait = 32) and 26% Haste. Atmas used were Siren Shadow, Cloak and Dagger, Minikin Monstrosity. Auto-Refresh, Evasion bonus and Fast Cast traits from spells. Maintained Barrier Tusk, Saline Coat, Sub-Zero Smash (Paralyze), Cimicine Discharge and Sandspray. Never even saw Ill wind (making Saline/Barrier a bit of a waste of time) or White Wind (trying to learn it -.-), just used 19 Wind Shears, but overall a blindingly simple fight.

Passive Evasion of 77.45% and 3.77% Parry rate. I took a total of 394 Damage, fight lasted 20mins but was not trying to kill quickly.

Edit I: To put how simple this fight is in perspective, just fought again and didn't even use Ni. Took 94 dmg from a rogue Wind sheer (still no Ill wind or White wind though oddly :S)

Edit II: Finally got it once a friend showed up to feed it TP. Large shift in behaviour lol (though it did just turn to wind day), used White Wind back to back and Ill Wind too. Made it more interesting but still no danger. 1/1 which is in line with the 1/1 & 1/2 I have seen on everything thus far (and I never bothered to get AF hands lol).

did an NI run and learned thunderbolt, easy.

I was curious i just got blu to 95 and i was wondering what are the Key spells needed for Blue besides procing yellow in abyseea? I dont really want to waist my time farming level 1-40 spells What is a list of the best DD and Magic spells they have for BLU? Thanks ^^

Go get them all, or play a different job.

ok? so get them all...alright gonna take time, but your not answering my question what are BLU's best spells.

Take your idiotic job pride elsewhere. Not all BLU spells are useful at 95.

Cute. But bringing a half *** mentallity to the table is not the right way to approach any job. Skipping 40 levels of spells? *** off.

Besides, they smell of freshly Abyssea-Burned BLU. They're going to need something to do while skilling up the 300 something points they need to actually learn our "good spells".

because footkick is useful.... at the very least get head butt, that will always be good

My blu skill 343 so eat a di*k nukka ^.^

So, prior to the proc systems, if a BLM75 didn't have T1-2 single-target, T1-2 -ga, and the ancient line of spells, they weren't a real BLM? What is it exactly about wasting this person's time is going to make them a real BLU?

You're an idiot.

I hope you realize you're demanding the equivalent of them keeping equipment suited for levels 1-95 on them at all times, because otherwise they're approaching the job in a half-assed way.

I'm hardly a BLU expert, but I'd start by using Wiki to find out every Abyssea proc and every spell that participates in a desirable job trait. After that, use this thread to determine what will be needed for Voidwatch procs. Beyond that, I'd wager that most spells 70-95 are useful for something, and keep in mind that there are a handful of utility spells that are learned at lower levels that never truly expire.

Somebody who actually knows BLU spells can step in to help beyond that.

I have a feeling Draylo will be more helpful than my hurr durr obvious contributions were, and I'm certain he'll provide more assistance than the dipshit suggesting Helldive is a make-or-break spell.

Go try a BCNM40 on BLU without any of your spells lvl 1-40. Utsusemi Ni's still worth gil I hear.
As obscure as the use of some of these spells may be, it's free. And really not that time consuming to get. Especially after having AF gloves.
And in a proc system FFXI, it's hard to say what will and won't be useful one day. Better to be prepared than caught with your pants down.



Oh wait...

So we've gone from arguing that skipping useless spells mentally facilitates failure, to arguing that they'll never be able to do a BCNM40 on BLU? The horror. Stop trying to backpedal out of the silly mindset a lot of BLU jump into as soon as a question like this is asked. Its as old as "astral burns make poor players!", and holds about as much water.

Spoilers: If you end up needing a spell, go get it.

Say what you want. I gave a legitimate reason for having spells within the lvl ranges that "nukka" over there had no intention of getting. If they're too lazy to not do their own research and find out what's useful, they're better off having them all just in case.

Or do I have to go through and list uses for every spell 1-40?

Edit: Actually forget it. I'm too damn tired to go back and forth with you.

Is it really that hard to admit that you said something fallacious?

If you don't want to help them, don't.

Repost, because your backpedaling is clogging the thread.

I will also say go for all spells but I will give a reason as to why. Though a lot of spells are situational and useless(lower level spells I am mainly talking about) you also have to think about the job traits that some of these spells give especially at a reduced Set points then some of the higher spells. I've found that I have made use of all traits aside from the obvious Rapid Shot(then again I have never used chakram or anything on my blu). Also, remember that just because a spell isn't used by majority/produce the most damage , doesn't mean that it's useless.

Blu spells are not very hard to learn, if you just take the time to go out and get them.

sure they might be a pain in the ***, but isn't learning the spell or obtaining it 1/2 the fun??

It's why ppl play Blu...just keep at it, you'll eventually get it.

PATIENCE!!!!!

Holy....

Go jump off a bridge XD

Flying Hip Press.... ya no... Seriously a lot of blu spells are utter trash, even with their JT sets (you're not gonna argue max hp1 is good...seriously you're not....) Many many spells are just bad, but they are there for lore. Using spells from a multitude of mob types/families. I've only used maybe 25 or 30 different spells from 1-75 (no I got blu to 75 years before abyssea came out). After 75, you basically set a few DD (unless you're CW burning, obviously), and some support magic spells so you don't die, or can help heal others (magic fruit is awesome). Its not like the Asuran Claws is game breaking or anything...

Cheap counter trait set.

FHP yeah I no longer see much use in setting max hp 1.

Inb4 next update another useless spell is used in a rare trait, just to piss people off.

Oh i know Asuran is for counter...but again, not "game breaking" and the spell is atrociously shitty.

I feel awesome when i have a full spell list....but i secretly have OCD when it comes to spells :|


as for this comment....
-insert into spellcast-

</if>
<if spell="Pollen" buffactive="Refresh" Group="Skilling">
<action type="command" when="aftercast">exec spell.txt</action>
</if>
<if notbuffactive="Refresh" spell="Pollen" Group="Skilling">
<action type="ChangeSpell" spell="Battery Charge" when="Precast"/>
<action type="Command" when="aftercast">exec spell.txt</action>
</if>
<if spell="Pollen" MPAftercastLT="100" Group="Skilling">
<action type="ChangeSpell" spell="Convert" when="Precast"/>
<action type="Command" when="aftercast">exec spell.txt</action>
</if>
<if spell="Pollen" HPLT="200" Group="Skilling">
<action type="ChangeSpell" spell="Plenilune Embrace" when="Precast"/>
<action type="Command" when="aftercast">exec spell.txt</action>
</if>

- make Spell.txt-
/wait #
/ma "Pollen" <me>

wont have skill problems after 8 or so hours of Pollen spam~