Starter Blu Set Help.

Hmmm...I know there's a person named Nightfyre on this website who has a lot of blu sets on their profile. Also, Draylo is a really good blu who could probably give you some advice.

To start off for evasion you could do Empress Hairpin, Aurore Doublet, Boxers Mantle, Scouters Rope (can blu wear this?), not sure about pants, Magus Charuqs have +10 eva skill on them so they're good feet.

Thats probably enough to get started and some of those things are expensive already.

Honestly, if you and the WHM have decent atma you probably won't need to rely on an eva set for a good majority of the seal NMs because a WHM can just heal it all back. You would have to deal decent dmg though so they dont steal hate if you are getting whacked constantly w/o dealing any dmg (w/o good atma). So I would suggest using DD atma(Minikin monstrosity, voracious violet and raized ruins)for melee + spell spam for most seal NMs you would duo. That said, I'd still recommend working on an Eva build for CW burning because it helps a lot more than pdt gear imo, especially if you do it solo.

The swords are a good step, I only have one made because I main Almace but I might make another just incase. Sandolphon already made some good suggestions that aren't too expensive. You could also get elusive earring + musical earring for earrings, heed ring, ocelott gloves/trousers and evasion torque.

None of those sets could be considered anything close to "starter" really so I'm not sure how helpful they'll be here. I also don't have an eva set posted.

Only really decent eva legs I can think of are Ocelot Trousers (best) and Alcide's Subligar (nearly as much eva but no haste).

Draylo's right that a good WHM will be sufficient most of the time, though I'd keep a PDT set around regardless for nasty TP moves. If you want to play it safe, eva sets are a good but slow choice for lower-tier content.

Do you mean not close as in above starter or not close as in they suck?

I was under the impression that those were all decent eva pieces. And some of them are a little harder to get but I myself am a noob and was able to get the hardest of those pieces within a few days. I mean the only real problem would be gil for the abcs, but 600-800k isnt hard to get up nowadays.

Sorry, I wasn't clear on what I was talking about. The sets on my page are all high-end, not something you'd be shooting for before you even have +1.

Well, nobody really likes hearing this but... if you have a THF friend and a WHM friend, you might want to consider leveling something other than BLU to round out your group. If you're going for seals specifically, then BLM THF WHM should be able to kill pretty much any seal NMs with a fair number of procs. Just yesterday, a friend and I were duoing for seals for some of our newer jobs as THF BLM, and nothing was really giving us any trouble.

When you're going for a really lowman seal group, you wanna make sure each member fills as many roles as possible. If the BLU isn't the tank, then they're really only good for 1/7 (maybe 2/7 if /NIN) procs and DD that you don't particularly need for seal NMs.

With the right tank, BLU can heal, and with the right healer/build, BLU can tank, but other than that, they don't really bring much to the table.

ftfy


In a lowman seal group (3 is how I do everything) BLU/WHM is basically a given to cover as many procs as possible. BLM/BRD and a NIN/THF/NIN whatever. This leaves 3 spells not covered. Banish III, Holy and Dispel.
Insinuating a BLU healer requires a specific tank is also not true. Blue Mage is easily the second most effective healer against a WHM. I can plen embrace for 900+ with correct atmas and natively have more refresh/fast cast available. I have handled MNK/WAR+THF tanks in a 3 man a number of times as BLU/WHM. On top of all this you can throw in some offensive spells MP permitting.

^ Thanks for explaining why cure4 for SCH and RDM is completely unacceptable.

Yeah, well, and think about Blm99/rdm49 <.< cure IV, refresh, haste, convert, better nukes ; ; What about a 99Smn/rdm? <.< Hell, even Pld99/rdm49 ; ;

I miss my rdm <.< need more whining to the official forums, looks like it works out lol


On a side note, i'll have to try blu/whm as main healing in abyssea after reading that, it gets bored being on whm everyday, miss my offensive rdm's evil part ; ;

Considering it is exactly 1 tier behind BLM on Nukes, it makes no sense why it would not be 1 tier behind WHM on cures considering.
Should have got Cure V at 80 for RDM, SCH/PLD some time in the 90s.

50% cure potency + 360470740 mnd cure5's on my WHM hit for ~1200 inside abyssea, same gear cure4's hit for ~600

Yeah.

ftfy again ^^

Healing Magic skill affects BLU cures. With a strong MND set + Apollo's Staff, Serpentes set, Cure Potency atmas (Rescuer and Harmony, 10% each), and potentially curepot augmented head/legs from MKD and ASA, you could hit 750+ Magic Fruits and 900+ Plenilune Embrace if /WHM. You could push that number higher as /SCH but /WHM lets you haste others without being dependent on Diffusion.

MND/VIT set with Light Staff + Serpentes set + Atma of the Rscuer & Atma of Harmony =~35% (and some Fast Cast)
Add Cruor buffs and that's pretty much it with a third atma on Refresh. I may try 3 stat atmas and forgo the Refresh just to see how high I can get.
We do massively lack Cure potency gear but I am sure there is more I am missing. P.S this will be zone dependant as the Cruor boosts from higher zones increase.

Last time I did it, I noticed that Allures MND+ meant only slightly less cure than Harmony and with a nice -Enmity (plenilune is not like Cure V, you will pull hate lol)


Extra note: It does cast slower (mostly animation I think) than a WHM. You must account for this with Fast Cast trait and being on the ball, but it is more MP efficient.

Something has just crossed my mind though. Anyone know what the -enmity cap and how close MM takes you to it?

Cure potency atma/gear, MND atma/gear. Set some MND spells. Allure and rescuer atma is pretty good.

Too bad P.embrace generates lots of hate if you spam it though.

-50 (think of it as 1/2 base enmity); MM is -10.