Stop Shouting And Not Adding BLU Campaign

It sad how literally you're forced to level sam or mnk in order to do endgame content ( if you want to DD)

I think in some ways this speaks to a broader issue - the relative skill and knowledge of PUGs.

On Odin there's really three kinds of PUGs - Veterans who shout all the time and know exactly what they want, tentatively-new-players-to-leading-events (ie middle-of-the-road players that don't have enough LS mates to do it themselves) that just wanna get #$@# done, and, well, players lacking in knowledge and social skills that believe shouting for something = automatic win.

A complaint you see in a number of discussion forums is that content is "first cleared by the statics", and "the rest of us" have to rely on PUGs. I think for the skilled player that doesn't have a 'static', this is a prime opportunity to help raise the level of skill on your server.

Quite frankly: talk to the leader, explain the value of a BLU in their event, and offer to help them with any strategy concerns or places where they're missing information.

Incursion is a great example - a billion status effects that BLU can remove easily, fantastic opportunity for BLU-based sleeps and crowd control, and quite frankly, BLU removing the pressure from BRDs for sleeps - as the BRDs seem to be constantly playing buff songs from the dispelga spam.

BLU is a great DD, but I don't think selling yourself as such, and only that, is really doing the job justice. It's also a hard sell to players running the "PLD RNG RNG RNG RNG RNG RNG RNG RNG RNG RNG RNG RNG RNG RNG RNG RNG RNG" strategies or other cookie-cutter setups for a lot of end-game content. But frequently these days, it's difficult for PUGs to make that perfect cookie-cutter setup - let alone fill it with skilled/geared players - so explaining what a BLU can add to the situation and how it might help round-out the "real life" implementation of their plan can be really useful.

That all being said, be realistic. A BLU in a constant amnesia-ga, silence-ga situation isn't going to perform up to snuff. NIN, for example, can output some of the highest DPS in the game and, well-geared, significantly outperform other DD jobs on content like AAs and DM2. You throw the same NIN at Wopket and suddenly pDIF destroys that damage output (not entirely, but they won't be out-DDing any SAMs on that tree).

I guess the misguided idea I'm stabbing at here is to try to educate and negotiate if you need to get content through a PUG. If the leader won't hear any of it - honestly, chances are they will fail anyway and you'll have saved yourself three hours of misery. If it's a veteran leader, let them know you're a competent, well-geared BLU, and you'd love to play the job with them sometime in the future when there's an opportunity, if you can't join them that night. And if it's a poor noob scrambling to get crap done and clearly has no idea what they're doing - offer to help. A lot. They might appreciate it.

in short: don't let the lukewarm BS of PUGs get you down on your job. Turn that #@$@ around and edumacate a noob.

Let me know when, and make sure I'm not tanking, erasing and AOE cure next time you ninja parse me..

I agree with Worldslost on this issue. I really love playing blu and I use it almost every time I'm soloing previous content like ToAH, WoG or abbysea due to it's versatility. The adjustments they made over the last few updates have been a big game changer (Flutter, Verve, Sinker drill, ect).
Blu is a lot more powerful as a DD than most people give it credit for. Yes, it sacrifices some of SAM's raw da
mage for it's versatility, but in incursion where things get very chaotic and dispel-crazy I saw it's a good trade-off for 1 DD slot in a party. I just wish more party leaders would see it that way. I mean, unless you have a Yagrush WHM (tall order, that.), a blu's AOE erase is the best option for the bindga/slowga you see all the time. Even scholars get their stratagems used up fast in there, I would know.
And lets not forget the blu mage panic button: Sanguine blade while wearing MAB gear = insta-full-heal (note: not that effective on megabosses). Mine can go for about 4000 on regular mobs. Can be a mixed bag though... I've used it right before a cure V hit me for 0 hp resulting in much laughter several times in incursion. Problem with that is the WHM didn't get any MP return, so I only hit my sanguine panic macro when I'm in the red.

I'm glad people are seeing the utility of another neglected job in incursion, GEO. I just figured blu would get noticed as well, but I was only half-right. the other half of the time it's "Do you have mnk or sam?". maybe we need a few more job adjustments, like how SAM woke up one day with an OP weaponskill that won them the game.


btw I'm the 6th best blu on the server. I just don't know who the other 5 are.

Do yourself a favor and lvl sch instead of going blu to incursion you'll make your group much better and a lot happier about the event.

Yes it is; we do bring a rdm and a sch; the rdm is busy with sleepga, haste II, debuff, the sch can focus on stunning only and can achieve a lower recast.

Can RDm and geo rotate stun?

Do yourself a favor and lvl sch instead of going blu to incursion you'll make your group much better and a lot happier about the event.

Do yourself a favor, meet with a good BLU, level up the Job, gear it with all the sets (STR DEX BLUSKILL PDT MDT REFRESH ACCU MACCU HASTE DA+TA StoreTP AGI MNK CUREPOTENCY+ CURERECEIVED FastCast.
Love this job, and the get frustrated by ppl saiyng you to level up SCH

RDM and GEO can rotate stun easily, but the problem lies with RDM stunning over a long period due to having an E in dark magic skill. Geo/Indi-Focus from the GEO makes this a moot point though.

It should also be mentioned that Gramk-Droog can be more easily solo stunned than the other NMs and adherents in the zone due to his usually long delays between TP moves. Good to know if you're solely farming his drops at any point.

BLU is a great job for utility but as it was pointed out, its efficiency decreases the higher iLVL you get. Everything in this game is situational. You can strive for efficiency or work with what you have. I'm guessing most of the career BLU play with shitty mages and it skews their perspective.

BLU is not bad, but face the facts. Either you're contributing to DPS, or you're contributing to stun locking/sleeps, and that makes you mediocre in both fields.

I out parse monks and some samurais

Riiiiiightttt.

You have no idea how PUG MNK SAM can parse sometimes >.>

Do yourself a favor, meet with a good BLU, level up the Job, gear it with all the sets (STR DEX BLUSKILL PDT MDT REFRESH ACCU MACCU HASTE DA+TA StoreTP AGI MNK CUREPOTENCY+ CURERECEIVED FastCast.
Love this job, and the get frustrated by ppl saiyng you to level up SCH

Do yourself a favor, meet with a good BLU, level up the Job, gear it with all the sets (STR DEX BLUSKILL PDT MDT REFRESH ACCU MACCU HASTE DA+TA StoreTP AGI MNK CUREPOTENCY+ CURERECEIVED FastCast.
Love this job, and the get frustrated by ppl saiyng you to level up SCH

Ragnarok has some shitty as all hell possible PUG MNKs and SAM. The worst are the bandwagon Koga SAMs that get outparsed by my thief. I take that back, the worst is me. Never invite me to anything.

People think eminent gear isn't ***because it's "117"...People think you NEED Ochain to tank 20SKCNMs on N.Neither of these things are True and no amount of explaining will convince people otherwise.