The Beast Within -- A Guide To Blue Mage

Thinking of upgrading the 3/5 Despair pieces i got for physicals spells since Adhemar stuff is pretty far for me, and 1 mil for each piece ain't that bad, any contender for the legs in between best and despair?

Ok, so I am after my Gyve body and legs for my blu so just gonna post some results for other blus.

Soloed with trusts as ppl have posted earlier: I used blu/run with Kuyin hathdenna, joachim, Ulmia, Koru, Apururu. Other set ups prolly work just as well or better.

I took saline coat, barrier tusk, and anvil lightning (nice for when he resists physical + it stuns). Like Draylo said stun works great (sudden lunge to stun meteor/comet). I normally aoe mighty guard for second version but he often strips it with Empty Salvation which makes me angry.

2nd form has about 81k hp according to my parse on Normal.
Empty Salvation: Dispels x number of buffs aoe.
Seal of quiescence: aoe silence
Winds of Oblivion: Aoe amnesia
Infernal Deliverance is aoe stun + knock back
Malevolent blessing: aoe plague?
Pestilent penance: ?
Bastion of Twilight: ?
Casts comet and meteor
So far on normal 2/9 kills have given some type of armor/weapon drop. 3/9 kills were with a thf. Back dropped first try with th1 (th belt) and sword with a thf.

I also soloed thf/dnc on normal with Selh'teus, koru, apururu, arciela, amchuchu/august. I have seen amchuchu die on first form twice for some reason and August died to 2nd form and I wiped revived and tried amchuchu who tanked last 40% without whm.

Edit: Oh and why is Selh'teus good for this aside from the fact he doesn't die easily? He only did 2.2%(4653 dmg) killing first form plus x2 second form (since I wiped at like 3%).

I like him for his recovery ability that can be performed regardless of whether or not he's silenced. I like Arciela for similar reasons, plus her +MDB, etc move.

Get me the mats and I can craft some NQ for you, no charge. BLUs don't let BLUs upgrade despair gear.

The note below the top physical set says "Adhemar augmented along path A." but path B is stronger in this case. Is this a typo or intentional for end game purposes as in favoring the more accurate path since it doesn't really matter that much against fodder?

It was a typo, but I'm starting to consider A to be our best path for Adhemar with how absurdly evasive content is lately. However, any situation in which you're using physical spells you almost certainly don't need the acc.

I'll look you up if I evervget the abjurations zoraen ;p

I'm suprised that saves any money on your server, the Vexed market on Asura has been *** since day 1.

I know this was answered for a couple of specific pieces, but:

Barring HQ Adhemar and Almaric, are the NQ pieces always going to be BiS for all pieces? Any pieces (aside from Adhemar legs) that aren't worth getting?

Also, question on a few pieces of gear not in sets in the OP, or ordered differently than I would have expected... Not sure if oversight, or just not as good...

- Helios Head over Hagondes +1?

- Dosis Tathlum? 3 MAB ammo really BiS?

- Ituli +1 legs over Taeon for TP?

The only NQ Adhemar piece (other than legs) that is not best in slot are feet.

NQ Amalric, other than the head, is always best in slot. For pure damage, other pieces pull ahead, but macc is a vital stat that cannot be ignored.

Helios head is recommended because of the higher macc. On anything remotely worthwhile, it's better.

Ghastly Tathlum will be superior to Dosis because of the INT.

Taeon are superior to Iuitl, that will be corrected.

How hard are the abjurations to get? Any that can be done with a small group of escha scrubs and trusts?

Is there an easy strategy for Kammavaca to get ilvl crimson legs?

He can use Rejuvenation a lot giving you a lot of TP wich will up your damage as well as healing you and giving you mp back. It's especially nice when the healer trusts are silenced.

Malevolent Blessing is high damage, single target, knockback and curse.
Pestilent penance is AoE plague.
Bastion of twilight is magical immunity.
Wheel of impenetrability is physical immunity.

Can anybody let me know which relic artifact empry gears are mandatory for blue Mage? And is the best way to learn blue magic is to stack blue magic skills in slot? Thanks in advance ffxiah community.

We've been having a very easy time with PLD/BLU/WHM/GEO. Add in another GEO if you want, but that's really all you need. GEO doex Vex/Attunement if you want to be safe, fury/frailty if you want to murder. When adds pop, kill them in the order of Clionid, Limule, Murex, Amoeba. Just remember CLMA. Why they didn't make it CLAM is beyond me and I am absurdly disappoionted.


Mandatory: Relic feet, Empy feet.
Highly useful: AF body, relic head, Empy body, empy hands, empy legs.
Niche uses: AF hands, AF feet, relic body, relic hands, empy head.

Adding blue magic does help with learning, but the best way to learn is just patience. You could stack up to 900 skill and still not learn consistently. Just keep at it.

Seems like it will be used to enhance diffusion

AF3 feet's enhancement to BA is pretty nice.


Hashishin Basmak +1
STR+12 DEX+16 VIT+12 AGI+33 INT+29 MND+17 CHR+33
Magic Accuracy+27 “Magic Atk. Bonus”+27 Enmity-8
“Burst Affinity”+15

Amalric Nails (D)
STR+6 DEX+6 VIT+6 AGI+26 INT+21 MND+20 CHR+33 Magic Damage+10 "Magic Atk. Bonus"+35 "Fast Cast"+5%
Magic Accuracy+15, Conserve MP+6

It's also worth noting that Hashishin are better for a higher resist set.

Empy feet is % damage to BA, which makes it trump Amalric when BA is up. It's also just a fantastic piece until Amalric.

Why is the OP empty with nothing but "10/10 Selling this post"? :(

I was going to try out BLU and was hoping to find some low to mid gear set advice for someone returning pre-adoulin.

I thought I remembered all kinds of sets for stuff there before, but it's all gone?

You have Prothescar blocked. He's the OP.

http://www.ffxiah.com/node/25

Use this instead.

Well... don't I feel a bit silly... I've been away so long I don't even remember who I have blocked or why.

Whoops. Carry on.

Much appreciated. I just unblocked people lol. I seriously don't remember why.

lol...