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The Beast Within -- A Guide to Blue Mage
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Tenacity is pretty pointless imo it's less than 5% on anything that matters. Osmosis has some niche utility sure so if you got something worth stealing then it could be handy, dispels are both pretty cheap 2 for blank gaze and 3 for geist wall, so you should be able to squeeze any of those in without losing a whole trait, just depends what your whole spell list looks like
no point in giving up 5% TA if you're hard up for points when you can drop 2 slots and 8 points by getting rid of tail slap and sickle slash, losing only 5 store TP. You also don't need Sinker Drill unless you're spamming CDC (which you shouldnt be most of the time).
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I'd honestly drop diffusion ray, and/or potentially plumage and just use reiki + suppa to delay cap with minimal losses. Thad drop you 1 or 2 spells slots, 8-16 points. Not sure what your current belt/earrings are but dropping ray is -5 STP, not that awful
If you're lowmanning / solo... You Definitely need Magic Hammer long before you should be considering fringe stuff like salvo
kuroki said: » delta thrust, barbed crescent, molting plumage -- dual wield, 10 points You should definitely only need Delta + Barbed for DW3, then make up for the rest of it with gear. Its been discussed ad nauseum recently, but its just inefficient to waste all the slots for higer tiers of dual wield fantod, sudden lunge, diffusion ray, tail slap, sickle slash -- store tp, 19 points as others have suggested, you can stick with just Lunge + Fantod.. if you're feeling frisky add in the Diffusion ray for 1 more tier, but I only ever set Slap + Slash when I'm in FULL Zerg/DD mode with a full party of buffs and support. When you're solo/lowman/multibox theres no need nat. meditation -- accuracy bonus, 6 points sinker drill -- critical bonus, 6 points Some suggested cutting this, but personally I make use of the darkness from time to time when I'm solo. I see it as more useful than Triad tbh.. which I never cast due to how inacrruate/impotent the paralyze is paralyzing triad -- skillchain bonus, 6 points tenebral crush -- magic acc. bonus, 8 points entomb -- defense bonus, 8 points cocoon, magic fruit, erratic flutter -- 10 points Nowadays I rarely use fruit in lieu of White wind which is just so powerful at a negligible increase in cost. Assuming your subbing RDM and don't need Barrier tusk, you could fit in things like subduction or floe for cleaving/bursting, Magic Hammer, among other things Offline
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Asura.Dexprozius said: » If you're lowmanning / solo... You Definitely need Magic Hammer long before you should be considering fringe stuff like salvo He wrote on last page that he has Tizona, so his mp pool should be more than fine. Also if he run Sortie with GEO like he wrote he does, then he can Indi-refresh while running between spots. When I BLU with my sortie static I cleave all the flan and solo A. It's definitely nice to top off on A objectives as well as MAB boost it grants. Especially if you pop wisdom and spam a few t-bolts between your hybrid nukes, the MP gets low. Obviously Tizona is strong for MP replenishment but its certainly not infinite.
Realistically, theres not much I really need besides the essentials. If I got the 4~5 points back (hammer + sound blast?) what would I spend them on that's impactful or useful utility wise... not much. Winds of Promy for C? You'd need a dedicated HP set to really appreciate the strength of White Wind, but when you do it's hard to not have it in your list
Keep in mind TA applies to off hand swings while mythic AM3 only applies to your tiz swings
I always find myself trying to build up utility just to remove it for more DPS traits later on when I see I'm never casting them. Build a couple sets, try them out and see how you do. I use 2 sets for sortie. I get the 6 magic kills in A and then swap immediately and keep the 2nd set on the rest of the run. 1st one is just a full MAB set. I've bolded the spells I actually use.
Set #1: --DWIII Delta Thrust Barbed Crescent --TA Empty Thrash Heavy Strike Thrashing Assault --AccBonusIII Nat. Meditation --MABVI Cursed Sphere Sound Blast Memento Mori Dream Flower Subduction Spectral Floe --MaccIII Tenebral Crush --EvaBonusIII Screwdriver Occultation --Utility Cocoon Entomb Set #2: --DWIII Delta Thrust Barbed Crescent --TA Empty Thrash Heavy Strike Thrashing Assault --AtkBonusV *swap for more acc bonus as needed Battle Dance Uppercut Spinal Cleave Thermal Pulse Embalming Earth --AccBonusIV Nat. Meditation Anvil Lightning --STPV Sickle Slash Tail Slap Fantod Sudden Lunge Diffusion Ray --Utility Cocoon Occultation Entomb I was thinking of making a full comprehensive solo BLU guide for sortie since I think my runs are as efficient as they can get and also offer a lot of variability for those less geared or experienced. But I think both the time of there being interest and me giving a ***about sortie have passed. What do you average for gallimaufry on your BLU solo runs? I'd appreciate a guide!
What do you use Diffusion Ray for? You bolded it
7~10k depending on if I'd prefer to do basements and get earrings/starstones (which i usually do now)
i MB on bhoot, can do some pretty good damage ~60k Shiva.Cerderic said: » 7~10k depending on if I'd prefer to do basements and get earrings/starstones (which i usually do now) i MB on bhoot, can do some pretty good damage ~60k Since you already have Anvil Lightning in that set, try MBing that instead and let us know if it's stronger... unless your doing Diffusion Ray on a Fusion I'd presume Anvil would outperform it is why I ask.... I never bother casting DR but I'll try it Asura.Dexprozius said: » Since you already have Anvil Lightning in that set, try MBing that instead and let us know if it's stronger... unless your doing Diffusion Ray on a Fusion I'd presume Anvil would outperform it is why I ask.... I never bother casting DR but I'll try it Shiva.Cerderic said: » Asura.Dexprozius said: » Since you already have Anvil Lightning in that set, try MBing that instead and let us know if it's stronger... unless your doing Diffusion Ray on a Fusion I'd presume Anvil would outperform it is why I ask.... I never bother casting DR but I'll try it Bhoot drops pretty swiftly to Tizona Requiescat > Expiacion > Darkness, no AM3 needed. I just bum rush it in the standard TP set, as Occultation will do more than enough to mitigate almost all the damage it puts out. I usually don't bother taking off Tiz unless I'm cleaving. Even w/ Tiz, Savage Blade > Expiacion distortion -> Spectral floe burst does great damage, even vs the Bhoot. I've been so unimpressed with CDC lately I just stay away from it unless absolutely necessary.
All that aside, if you're solo then why not switch to Maxentius when you go to zone C and just Black Halo? It crushes.. and can still light if you open with Realmrazer fillerbunny9 said: » Bhoot drops pretty swiftly to Tizona Requiescat > Expiacion > Darkness, no AM3 needed. I'm curious if my skillchain of Savage>Exp:Distort is stronger. I get that the darkness will be significant, but Requiescat does such shitty damage, even I have 5/5 merits in it and it does maybe 10k? Asura.Dexprozius said: » fillerbunny9 said: ยป Bhoot drops pretty swiftly to Tizona Requiescat > Expiacion > Darkness, no AM3 needed. I'm curious if my skillchain of Savage>Exp:Distort is stronger. I get that the darkness will be significant, but Requiescat does such shitty damage, even I have 5/5 merits in it and it does maybe 10k? I am tending to get 10-12k out of Req. myself, Expiacion hits like a truck at R15, though, so I am usually getting around 50-60k with trusts, then usually a bonus 10-20k on top for 60k+ from the chain itself. it absolutely destroys the Porxie and you can get close to/hit a max damage Darkness. fillerbunny9 said: » I am tending to get 10-12k out of Req. myself, Expiacion hits like a truck at R15, though, so I am usually getting around 50-60k with trusts, then usually a bonus 10-20k on top for 60k+ from the chain itself. it absolutely destroys the Porxie and you can get close to/hit a max damage Darkness. Oh for sure, but I thought we were talking about the Bhoot, which is why I suggested Maxentius or Tizona based skillchains rather than CDC spam bursting light. My Expiacions are doing more than Savages, but Savage is only a little bit worse, which is leagues better than Req. That's why I think settling for a distortion rather than a darkness is better overall, but I can test. Asura.Dexprozius said: » fillerbunny9 said: » I am tending to get 10-12k out of Req. myself, Expiacion hits like a truck at R15, though, so I am usually getting around 50-60k with trusts, then usually a bonus 10-20k on top for 60k+ from the chain itself. it absolutely destroys the Porxie and you can get close to/hit a max damage Darkness. Oh for sure, but I thought we were talking about the Bhoot, which is why I suggested Maxentius or Tizona based skillchains rather than CDC spam bursting light. My Expiacions are doing more than Savages, but Savage is only a little bit worse, which is leagues better than Req. That's why I think settling for a distortion rather than a darkness is better overall, but I can test. we were, I was simply mentioning the Porxie as that seems to be the best way to deal with it as well. Fair, I'll mess around with it next few runs and see.
Yesterday I was blessed with ultimate glory.... Still in shock.
good ***dude. too bad about the DA, probably not worth an equip with tizona AM3. Eabani + Telos for me.
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It's always been primarily a WS/general acc swap, especially for any added effect phy spell. Nice reward before the new year in any case, grats
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