The Beast Within -- A Guide To Blue Mage

you need all four for Triple Attack. with the update you'll need Thrashing Assault and two other spells, or only Thrashing Assault if for some reason you only want DA (not /WAR and need space for other spells/traits, probably soloing or something). That frees up one slot.

TA is always better unless you need the space. we don't get 10% DA from our DA trait

1 Quad. Continuum (4)
2 Delta Thrust (2)
3 Barbed Crescent (2)
4 Empty Thrash (3)
5 Heavy Strike (2)
6 Sudden Lunge (4)
7 Disseverment (5)
8 Vanity Dive (2)

9 Animating Wail (5)
10 Battery Charge (3)
11 Winds of Promy. (5)
12 Nat. meditation (6)
13 Magic Fruit (3)
14 Cocoon (1)
15 Frightful Roar (3)

16 Fantod (1)
17 Demoralizing Roar (4)
18 Acrid Stream (3)
19 Mortal Ray (4)
20 Blazing Bound (3)


5 points left over, can switch Roar to Benthic Typhoon (Roar > Typhoon if all you want is DEF down and not AoE damage) and/or Magic Fruit to White Wind (Wind > Magic Fruit when hitting at least 2 people) depending on situation. This set will change come Monday, but this is what I use for anything that I don't need AoEs for (like salvage or skirmish) in which case I drop Vanity Dive and Disseverment and stick on Whirl of Rage and Tempestuous Upheaval. Can also drop Battery Charge for Dream Flower or Glutinous Dart if the need arises, or if you don't need the extra acc from Accuracy Bonus II you can drop Vanity Dive and Disseverment for whatever utility spells.

Pretty good amount of new gear for us this update. Quick and dirty list:

-New fast cast body for non-blue spells (Dread Jupon)
-New rings for pretty much everything except TP
-New waist for TP (6% DW, possibly that Sweordfaetels +1)

Oh right, it does. I thought it was 5%

It's only relevant if Thrashing Assault works the way I was envisioning, which it probably won't but hey we can dream.

If it allows DA and TA to be set at the same time via spells, eliminating the need for /WAR's DA nearly entirely and allowing for extra slots via dropping DW spells

testing its haste value right now

Erratic Flutter is 30% Haste, 302/1024 or so.

2:06 Klimaform Recast

2:06 = 126 = 7560

10800 * 0.705078125 = 7615
7615/60 = 126

lol the ***, Subduction is an insane gravity effect.

seems Diffusion doesnt work with Flutter?

Should report it as a bug then. I will if no one else does I guess..

thats 3 of the 5 required spells, empty thrash and demoralizing roar needed as well. tested myself though, can't get both with all 5. off to test WSC/fTP of thrashing + WSC/fTP of Subduction

Subduction is faster than Temp...wow. Recast wise.

Guys from wich mob do you learn Thrashing assault and subduction?

Thrashing Assault = Meebles
Subduction = Maroliths


Preliminary spell parameters:


Subduction
2.0dINT, 2.0fTP, NO WSC
Potent Weight effect
MP+25 VIT+6 INT+6
6 Set Points, Magic Attack Bonus (8)
27MP, 5s recast, 1.5s cast


Thrashing Assault
64% ??? WSC (Probably 32%STR 32%DEX), 1.25fTP, unknown Attack bonus/penalty
HP+20 DEX+8
7 Set Points, Double Attack (8)
119MP, 60s recast, 0.5s cast


Erratic Flutter
30% (307/1024) Haste
HP+15 MP+15 AGI+5 CHR+5
6 Set Points, Fast Cast (8)
92MP, 5m duration, 45s recast, 2.5s cast




-Subduction's great for AoE damage.

-Thrashing Assault seems pretty unfortunate. Comparable damage to QC with worse SC properties (Fusion/Reverberation, thanks to Kensagaku for testing). Primary use seems to be to save a slot for TA while providing a reasonable boost to DEX.

-Erratic Flutter is amazing and the best thing ever

With the new spells, how would you rearrange your spells now? (dd wise)

Currently looking at
Quad. Continuum
Delta Thrust
Barbed Crescent
Empty Thrash
Heavy Strike
Thrashing Assault
Sudden Lunge
Glutinous Dart

Frightful Roar
Winds of Promy.
Erratic Flutter
Cocoon
White Wind
Nat. Meditation

Vanity Dive
Frenetic Rip
Fantod
Animating Wail
Mortal Ray
Blazing Bound

For high end targets. Frenetic Rip and Vanity Dive drop when accuracy is unnecessary and can be replaced with whatever.


updated spell parameters, Thrashing Assault looking like a STR/DEX analog to QC without the decent SC properties.