Thanks, I think I'll need to keep testing out battle to get grips with it!
Oh and I'm starting to see why Tizona is quite important for BLU; MP does drain slowly but surely. I'm sure there are ways to combat this e.g. magic hammer on susceptible enemies and battery charge (to an extent).
Tizona is a huge boost for BLU DPS
1: The MP you get back (+ refresh in idle gear) is sometimes enough that you dont need to set magic hammer or battery charge.
2: The AM3 is a huge boost for TP gain and works very well the malignance set for TP'ing
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SHamelss self plug
but for the above you can always tinker around with my little calcualtor
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1xnC7ETVxBDQ5jIgE7umoyryc6cL0VZyoUUe99QJrOIU/edit?usp=sharing
This is an example of much much Tizona turns the tide away from MA toward STP build for TP'ing
this is a basic malignances TP set (With no DW because i forgot)
MA set has DA on cape and uses petrove + Eponas rings
STP set uses STP on Cape and 2 chiric + 1
the rest are idetical
Before without AM3 multi attack has a higher TP gain. but once AM3 gets put into the mix, the STP based build pulls ahead.
I dont have blu on my main character but even for my Wife;s blu. I love Tizona
I recently got my first mythic weapon in the game for my main job BLU. I was reading, comparing and hesitant to start it but once I got Tizona R15 I just stopped equipping Naegling plain and simple. MP gain is one obvious play style change that allow to abuse MP heavy spell like Occultation, White Winds, Tenebral Crush, Entomb and others. TP gain with AM3 active is also an impressive change that allow to WS much more often than with a Naegling. That alone make it already better than Naegling...
However the part I often see overlooked in BLU DPS calculations is the fact that an active AM3 does grant +40DA and +20TA to the weapon like if it was in the description. Those 40DA/20TA do proc for TP gain but ALSO proc when doing any WS. That essentially translates to WS that have a lot more DA/TA procs and therefore making the WS damage much more stable and consistent at reaching damage cap. Pair that with Nyame R25 +22DA,
subWAR 12DA, Sailfi Belt +1 (2TA 5DA), job trait 5TA and you have almost no chance to not have proc on every WS.
Even using Savage Blade with a Tizona will give much consistent high damage WS because of the DA/TA proc rate. Savage Blade -> Expiacion = Distortion allow for even more DPS gain in most situations where distortion is not resisted.
You can also abuse the Tizona AM2 to gain 100-120 Magic Accuracy from a single slot. Paired situationally with Sakpata's sword, magic accuracy food and you will land BLU debuff on a lot of stuff for added versatility.
Tizona is that good for BLU...