The Black Sacrament -- A Guide To Black Mage

Hello Awesome peeps^^

I wanted your advise on improvements to my MB set :


Should I replace Mujin with Shiva Ring +1 ?
Should I replace my merlinic feet with something else? They are rolle MB 11, MAB 35, MAC 36.

Any feedback is appreciated.

You're currently overcap on MBB1 gear, and could shuffle a bit.
That set is, including traits/mastered gifts:
392 MAB(90 in gifts/traits)
51 MBB1 (capped at 40)
20 MBB2
56 MBB from gifts/traits
Indirect to damage, this set also has +302 macc (aside from weapon's +skill)
Adding it up, you have

The "ideal" set, putting macc aside, and given your existing weapon,grip and that you want to keep spaekona body on, is
393 MAB (90 in gifts/traits)
41 MBB1 (capped at 40)
26 MBB2
56 MBB from gifts/traits
Downside, 261 MACC
Overall, 10.94 multiplier


If you're aiming for around the same +302 MACC, remove the macc-weak amalric and try something like
411 MAB
42 MBB1
15 MBB2
56 MBB
303 MACC
Overall, 10.78 multiplier

Thank you for this detailed explanation. It was really helpful and I could do so thinking of my own. How did you get 15 MBB2 in your ACC set. Ea gives 7 and mujin gives 5 that is 12.

I tried to improve int he last set you posted. I always prefer accuracy sets. Also i noticed lack of Regal I tried to put together this with the Info you gave me:


388 MAB 68 + 8 + 38 + 13 + 8 + 7 +50 + 3 + 10 +41 +54 + 90
40 MBB1 7 + 20 + 5 + 8
20 MBB2 7 + 5 + 8
56 MBB
293 MACC 10 + 4 + 50 +8 + 15 + 55 +38 +20 +51 + 42

Overall, 10.54 multiplier - Did i math correctly?

Because I take the calculation you made for my original set. where you said MAB is 392 and swap out the merlinic for arch mage feet i get MAB 394, but when I counted was 388.
IF I just subtract merlinic and add Arch feet

so for the:
What is the correct multiplier?

Sorry if I come of as confusing. I guess a big thing is content and the accuracy level required. What would be the accuracy required for some of the contents you think ?

Can a Grio with augments ever beat a Lathi for nuking/MBing?

Looking for a non burst Death set, I looked in both guides perhaps I missed. If any could post a set or 2 that would be awesome, thanks!

ItemSet 361200

Can probably switch staff to Grio w/ MP macc/mab mbd augs for non-trash mobs.

SCH:
- Self-Skillchains
- Magnificient Dots in terms of Helix Spells.
- Mediocre to high magic burst damage
- Good self-support for Accuracy/Power-Boost due to level II-storms
- Very good solo-properties due to the support-aspect from Light Arts and buffs such as Regen V, Phalanx, Reraise etc.
- 2nd highest Enfeebling Magic Skill (given Arts active) and therefore good MACC properties to land enfeebles

BLM:
- High to superb Magic Burst Damage
- Good to High Free-Nuke Damage


Based on my point of view though, starting out on BLM and SCH will give you a hard time nowadays cause they are -except for Dynamis.. and even there, my LS for instance doesn't use any BLMs or SCHs for clears...- rarely used for daily content and I can't remember the last time I joined a magic-burst-based Ambuscade (the content that usually provides the best starter-gear based on effort/time ratio). I, too, love my SCH and my BLM and I would like to see them in usage more often.

They are still very good but if you just go by shouts on Asura, you will find yourself in a rather niche-like situation where you have to either take the initiative to start your own groups and form them to your liking (a lot of the content still works great with a magic based setup, but it also works with other setups...) or wait for a moderate amount of time for someone requiring SCH or BLM (mostly Vagary or Magic Objectives in Omen).

If you have a Linkshell, it depends on how they run things of course, so if you really want to stick to those two jobs, I'd advice you to get a LS that is still going the magical route, if you are not the type that likes to run things on his own account.

Summing-Up: Starting out on BLM or SCH is not the smoothest route into the endgame-scene, but if you keep pushing and become someone who does his homework and the gearing, you will be a golden needle in a haystack because -based on my experience- a lot of random Mages lack quite some.... "means for efficiency" (to put it nicely) nowadays.

What is the macc requirement for HELM Vinipata? We had Idris GEO with Focus and meva down. COR with Warlock's roll. Marine stewpot. SCH did fire sc, BLM in full Amalric +2 and we barely got it to 98% after several volleys of SC+Nuke. I think BLM got a 4k-8k MB? (Forget the number but not enough to bring to less than 98% for the fight.

We did it immediately at the start of the fight so assumed no stances up, but does it start in mdt stance or something?

I was on SCH, I lack a good bit of pure macc but was hoping with buffs and burst I'd land an ok Helix after SCing for the BLM. Most I could get was like 250 damage, tried a few times.

Speaking of MACC..I was wondering..is there a good frame of reference listed somewhere that will tell me how much MACC I should aim for on certain fights? I know that melee accuracy is listed on a lot of NM pages, but I am not seeing it listed for MACC. I know generally speaking you cap MBD and get MAB as high as you can, but knowing how much MACC to aim for would be super helpful for gear planning.

Honestly the sets on the front page are the best sets you can get currently and has really changed. I'd gun with those as the best possible burst set is ea+1 if you need more mac get merlinic stuff augs suck but that's really it.

See that's the thing. I know what gear to use for mdb/mab/macc. What I don't know is WHEN to use each set or what pieces to swap out based on the fight. So for example, it takes 1400+ melee acc to land melee hits consistently on sovereign behemoth. On BLU for example, you know you need to hit that 1400 acc cap so you set certain blu spells and drop pieces like windbuffet belt +1 for kentarch belt +1. For mages, on let's just use an example, Maju..how do I know how much macc I should be stacking on the fight? Is there not a working knowledge of "you need x macc to land nukes consistently without resists on this target"?

From what I've seen no because it's not simple like melee and acc. You have to factor in stuff like high evasion how many buffs your getting how much INT you have compared to the mobs on top of that how much magic defense it has. Melee buffs help alot with just acc as most of the debuffs mages put on are for them. Maju is a bad mob to begin with even the best set for BLM can get resisted I think the most macc for maju is geo full +3 omen gear. Magic damage in general has problems because of se not wanting same nukes on a mob over and over among other things. If your looking for which pieces to swap just play around with alot of it. Testing how much you need is hard because you cant check mage stats like melee stats thanks SE. If something has low acc and you have something higher start with that.

If the goal is more macc, having Obi's bonus damage wont matter if you get resisted. Same idea for swapping out Empy feet on SCH in favor of more macc.