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3 raids in a row seemed a little excessive. But the bright side is I now am a Mechanist and I got Fel Strike! Edit: Got a Blue Mage  ! But I can't match make  ?
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yeah, the problem with BLU in matchmaking is that it'd be possible to join instances without any functional skills to contribute with. you can still party up with people manually (including running instances as a full suite of blue mages) imo they should let you queue up in the various ways you can play with NPCs since the only person you'd be loving up is yourself, but there's a few good arguments against it
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May 16, 2023 07:00
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Mesadoram posted:Edit: Got a Blue Mage Here's an introduction to how it works. (You might need Archives, it's from the previous thread.)
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May 16, 2023 07:17
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flatluigi posted:imo they should let you queue up in the various ways you can play with NPCs since the only person you'd be loving up is yourself, but there's a few good arguments against it Duty Support with nothing but Water Gun is basically just keeping par with the NPCs.
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May 16, 2023 08:21
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girl dick energy posted:Welcome to the game's only 'limited job' as of yet. It's much more of a minigame than a traditional casting class. Basically, you run around the world, learning skills from monsters, then combine those skills in creative ways to become as strong as an entire 4 person or even 8 person party. Thank you! I will check that out. I soloed Ifrit and got Eruption last night, supper happy about that .
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May 16, 2023 14:13
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BLU basically has three things going for it: 1) Quickly doing old group content 2) A whole series of solo puzzle bosses that test your skill at the job 3) Seeing Martyn constantly gently caress up in new and exciting ways
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May 16, 2023 17:16
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Regalingualius posted:BLU basically has three things going for it: I am noticing #3 is a recurring theme lol. Been grinding out level 40 enemies, I just hit 30. Thousand Needles is fantastic at this low level. Need to figure out a way to cheese a red chocobo to get meteor... Edit: Also, spells not being a guarantee is kind of silly. I apparently got super lucky and it only took me 5 tries to get the spell from Ifrit. Mesadoram fucked around with this message at 17:32 on May 16, 2023 |
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May 16, 2023 17:26
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They are guaranteed if you synch and have an all BLU party IIRC
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May 16, 2023 17:39
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You don't need an all BLU party for the guarantee, you just need to sync. (You do need an all BLU party to get log completion, which I think is why a lot of BLU spell PFs demand all BLU) BLU is the best DPS but they're not very good at tanking or healing so having a couple of helpers with those as real jobs rather than mimics can make things smoother Qwertycoatl fucked around with this message at 17:56 on May 16, 2023 |
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May 16, 2023 17:52
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Tekopo posted:They are guaranteed if you synch and have an all BLU party IIRC Spells from dungeons/trials/raids are guaranteed if you're synched. You don't need to be in a full BLU party though, there can be non BLU party members. Open world spells are not guaranteed drops but those usually only need 3-4 kills.
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May 16, 2023 17:53
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Such an interesting mechanic. I am enjoying Blue Mage so far. It is shockingly fun . I am suffering from alt-ites and I keep wanting to level up everything. Should I focus on just getting to max level with my warrior then worry about everything else?
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May 16, 2023 17:57
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Mesadoram posted:Such an interesting mechanic. I am enjoying Blue Mage so far. It is shockingly fun Do whatever you think is fun, but you’re going to hit job quest barriers gating actions if you don’t advance MSQ as well.
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May 16, 2023 18:01
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You can get spells from an unsynched dungeon or trial, but like world mobs it's just a chance.
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May 16, 2023 18:03
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Mesadoram posted:Such an interesting mechanic. I am enjoying Blue Mage so far. It is shockingly fun You'll also have a decent array of playstyles available if you ever want to try something different, too.
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May 16, 2023 18:22
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Mesadoram posted:Should I focus on just getting to max level with my warrior then worry about everything else? FuturePastNow posted:You can get spells from an unsynched dungeon or trial, but like world mobs it's just a chance.
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May 16, 2023 18:44
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Thank you for the suggestions all! I will probably keep leveling blue mage for a bit till I get bored then go back to pushing through the main quest.
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May 16, 2023 18:55
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Mesadoram posted:Thank you for the suggestions all! If you can find someone willing to spend an hour or so with you, it's worth getting BLU powerleveled up to max. It's dreadfully boring, otherwise.
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Relyssa posted:If you can find someone willing to spend an hour or so with you, it's worth getting BLU powerleveled up to max. It's dreadfully boring, otherwise. I will bug my friend to see if he can power level me a tad (or at least help me get a couple of more spells).
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May 16, 2023 19:00
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Note that the best BLU powerleveling location is a ShB zone so uh. Powerleveling is only really a rec if you’re that far in.
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Mesadoram posted:I will bug my friend to see if he can power level me a tad (or at least help me get a couple of more spells). My wife and I traded doing it for each other and it was extremely worth it. As noted though, yeah, you'll need ShB for access to it.
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May 16, 2023 19:02
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Level every single job at once and let God sort it out 
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May 16, 2023 19:35
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Rarity posted:Level every single job at once and let God sort it out  Fishing is also a pretty chill thing to do while waiting in queue .
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May 16, 2023 19:43
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Mesadoram posted:
This is another reason I haven't done fishing. That's a joke about tank mains having short queues.
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May 16, 2023 19:51
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Warmachine posted:This is another reason I haven't done fishing. That is un-ironically my experience too.
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May 16, 2023 20:12
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Relyssa posted:If you can find someone willing to spend an hour or so with you, it's worth getting BLU powerleveled up to max. It's dreadfully boring, otherwise. Personally, I hard disagree. It's good to know it's an option, but I enjoyed the chance to zone out and grind.
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Bruceski posted:Personally, I hard disagree. It's good to know it's an option, but I enjoyed the chance to zone out and grind. More power to you then, I just couldn't stand it.
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The trick is to listen to a podcast in the background as you do it That’s what’s gotten me through all 10 of the Zodiac weapons 
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I'm leveling THM/BLM for the first time. So far I have felt really good about the rotation with Blizzard/Fire for single-target and Blizzard II/Fire II for AOE. Now I have hit 35 and was granted Blizzard III/Fire III and am not sure how I am supposed to work them in, or what situation they are for. Do they just replace Blizzard/Fire as single-target on my hotbar?
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LuckyCat posted:I'm leveling THM/BLM for the first time. So far I have felt really good about the rotation with Blizzard/Fire for single-target and Blizzard II/Fire II for AOE. Now I have hit 35 and was granted Blizzard III/Fire III and am not sure how I am supposed to work them in, or what situation they are for. Do they just replace Blizzard/Fire as single-target on my hotbar? Fire III and Blizzard III are what you use to switch inbetween phases, cutting out the Transpose middleman. Switching in this way from three stacks costs no MP, and ice spells are free under Umbral Ice III. So, you'll never have to press Transpose again unless you're doing high-level optimization around Firestorm procs or need to not drop your timer. Begin single target fights from no stacks with Fire III to go right to your high damage phase, no need to start in ice.
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Fire 1 is still your bread and butter. Fire/Blizz 3's purpose is to immediately switch from AF to UI and vice versa, and get full stacks at the same time. Basically takes transpose out of the rotation.
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Ahh okay that makes sense. Thank you!
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Important note: Spamming Fire I is going to be more damage than spamming Fire III. Only use the 3s to switch or if you have a Firestarter proc.
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BLM is basically all about getting iteratively more complex with every expansion. When you hit 60, for example, Fire IV becomes your best spell, but it's also the only one that doesn't refresh your gauge timer, so you still have to throw in a Fire I/Firestarter'd Fire III every so often while you're in your fire phase.
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it does make it nearly the worst class to get a feel of while levelling, that's for sure
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flatluigi posted:it does make it nearly the worst class to get a feel of while levelling, that's for sure Black Mage's openers and ideal rotations will always change when passing certain levels because the new tools change the timing and rotations on everything. It's a fun job when you manage to get into the zone and just blast some boss away with a barrage of perfectly-timed spells, but it's definitely a much more complex job to learn than other DPSs. This advice applies to all jobs, but doubly so for Black Mages: every time you unlock something, play around with it on a training dummy to get a feel of how it changes things. Alternatively (or additionally), check WeskAlber's guide on it, since he breaks things skill by skill in the order you unlock them and every bunch of skills he provides a decent opener to get a feel of how the new skills interact with one another.
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Orcs and Ostriches posted:Fire 1 is still your bread and butter. Fire/Blizz 3's purpose is to immediately switch from AF to UI and vice versa, and get full stacks at the same time. Basically takes transpose out of the rotation. To add to this, it's still a good idea to keep Transpose on your bars, in order to keep your buff rolling while running between pulls.
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BLM 60+ is largely the same with more stuff weaved in between, alternating between spamming fire 4 and ice phase. BLM 50 to 60 revolves around getting into fire phase and then spamming fire until you get a firestarter proc. BLM below 50, though, is the domain of the damned.
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The Balance has a leveling guide that tells you exactly what buttons you should be pushing for each stage of the BLM leveling process as well as a guide for how the class works at 90. It doesn't explain why, but once you understand what to do it quickly becomes obvious why you are doing it which helps with understanding how and when to adjust your rotation for fight conditions.
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When I am in a non-rested area I always get a 'could not apply glamours here' message when I switch to a different glamour plate. But the glamour seems to apply just fine from what I can see so...what's the error about?
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Mr. Neutron posted:When I am in a non-rested area I always get a 'could not apply glamours here' message when I switch to a different glamour plate. Are you switching to gear that happens to be already looking like that from the last time you switched to that plate?
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