The Beast Within -- A Guide To Blue Mage

Which stones should I spam on Colada for melee stats while I still have my sanity?

All 3 AF bodies serve a purpose. Relic is replacable after you get better accuracy/fast cast options, but it's still a good piece to pick up in the meantime.

As for stones, it depends on what you want. The current running theory is that each stone has a specific focus. Each stone will guarantee that you get the stats that they focus on, and they can also break the regular cap when it comes to their focus.

Pellucid focuses on stats, such as accuracy, attack, macc, MAB.
Taupe focuses on attributes, such as STR/DEX/AGI and the like.
Fern focuses on bonus augments, such as multi-attack, STP, crit rate.

Not entirely relevant to the original question, but 119 Assimilator's is the only one of the three with noteworthy value to a top geared BLU right now. It's the only ilevel body with blue skill. Luhlaza is strictly lockstyle gear at this point, while Hashishin's casting time reduction is overshadowed by proliferation of FC gear and traits. At last count (pre-Reisenjima), we could hit 67% on non blue spells before traits. With EF set, that's 82%.

Which of the 3 head pieces is best? Sword skill on Hashi for TP or the BLU skill on Luhlaza for spells?

I just need these two pieces sorted out. I don't know what the current caps are on BLU skill and what ACC looks like on content I haven't done.

I'm trying to think of a better body than AF3 for Sudden Lunge and I can't.

I use Samnuha Coat, personally. Good bit of extra DEX for more overall acc and macc.

Ah, I knew there was probably something I was forgetting, although I wouldn't use that unless you have at least a little extra macc on it.

(Considering 3/4 dex as acc)

Hashishin Mintan +1 = 39acc, 24macc

Mekosu Harness = 44.75acc, 20macc

Samnua = 47.75acc, 23macc (up to 38 and 5fc for recast)

All 3 are pretty competitive in the "acc+macc" arena, but yeah once augmented Samnua pulls way ahead.

You also have to consider the lack of INT on Samnoha, which is why I mentioned needing relevant augments on Samnoha.

That pony is fun to kill, you can even get Amchuchu to tank it pretty easily. :)

Edit: lol didn't read you were trying to use Amchuchu for it and she was losing hate ><; lol

*goes back to his corner

I saw the video, this BLU dude from Asura soloing the unicorn, and thought, was it really that easy? If he can do it solo no trusts, I can at least do it with trusts.

It was really that easy.

BLU FORUMS BEST FORUMS.

With all the augments we can get on herculean gear, im finding myself in the position of needing an updated spreadsheet more than ever, a lot of different crit rate/damage gear is available, and im finding it very hard to balance my different sets on blu. Could anybody share their blu spreadsheet with me please?? I will be forever grateful to you and your descendants. Thanks!!

Have we figured out Hercules is stacking up against the Adhemar gear

Couldn't think of a real melee option for the hat, so threw magic on it

Won 2/5 runs with Taelmoth the Diremaw so far. Surprising my greatest troubles don't stem from his aoe magic but his physical spells. I had him once slap my last shadow away and instant kill me with typhoon (like he knew that was my last shadow lol). Another time I had 2 shadows and he killed me from full health (2100ish hp) with blood drake.

I won using August, amchuchu, arciela, koru, apururu. At the last 2% he finally killed august and amchuchu kept him till he died. Second win I did August, amchuchu, rahal, King, apururu. All tanks got murdered but bought me time to kill the mob.

Take care that healers/supports are not behind tanks as typhoon will pwn them. Last fight rahal lasted precisely 1 second against this guy, but that was a 1 shot that I didn't take at least, lol. His physical spells are ridiculous. I agree with Oraen magic dmg wise it was not terrible. I often forget to keep magic barrier up and sometimes phalanx trying to zerk him. But if he catches you w/o utsusemi ur in danger.

I've been having a lot of trouble with flayer. Sorted the Corse out easily enough though that fight just really requires you to remove Mori.

The thing I struggle on with Flayer is once the tank inevitably dies, sometimes really early in the fight at like 79%, others aroun 47%ish. I can tank fine up until the point he does a full debuff and either has azure lore up, or pops one off. I can get utsusemi up a couple of times but he burns through them faster than I can get haste spells back on to give me good utsusemi recast again.

I decided to try Gessho out as I don't have August yet sadly & Trion is a joke. Amchuchu is a bit of a crap shoot, sometimes he does well, others he goes down pretty fast depending on how hungry for Taru the flayer is.

I was surprised at how well his blink tanked, although as suggested, you have to hold back a bit as he doesn't have lots of hate tools like other tanks. Whenever I take hate, I've got shadows up and just rely on swinging swords for damage to let Gessho get back in the game. Then I'll start ws again.

He holds hate a bit better than normal in this fight as you're not getting damage from SC's.

Only tried once with him so far and the fight was extremely smooth to 47% when Yoran decided he wanted to move... right in the path of Benthic Typhoon, died and I couldn't keep going after that.

So no win, but not ready to write Gessho off just yet for those of us that can't put out damage enough to only need to survive one Azure Lore per fight.

Spell set / video / any other tips for this fight would be highly appreciated.

Store tp question. I must be doing something wrong because I'm getting a calculation of 1.86 tp per hit when I'm factoring my dw 25% and my store tp of +55. When I didn't factor dw I was calculating 10.47 tp per hit but now it's totally different. I'm using Nibiru blades and Clad sword. I have the +1 gift trait and dw 2 and store tp 4. I'm also getting 9 dw from Taeon boots only in gear and + 30 stp from gear.

Has anyone managed to solo Nosoi with trusts on blu? Anyone know about any good setups for that even with 6+ other members? I did it once and we won but it was just such a painfully long fight even ws spamming with Tizona AM3 on catnip Mighty Guard + haste II.

Set up was something like pld, blu, bst, bst, whm, cor or geo. Anyone have a favorite setup or really reliable one doable with pick-up parties?

Has it been proven that Breeze Gorget works with CdC? 'clopedia and BG wikis seem to indicate any Light-aligned elemental gorget will work with a Light WS, but I've been seeing old posts that say it won't. :/

This thing is not soloable due to poison aura. Party it's easy. This is one of the easier fights. Paladin tank 2dd Geos healer. Run away excerpt tank every 25 percent when it does mighty strike poison. Poison aura goes away resume fighting.

Even easier magic burst setup.

I think my Hercules hands (ta +3 accuracy 30 attack 15) beats adhemar hands. Accuracy same losing plus tp while gainin 3 more ta.

just farm the other gorgets, and get them synergized to the all in one and call it a day.