~ miidae & meedio ~ final fantasy XI ~ diabolos ~ mii day ~ final fantasy XIV ~ kashuan ~

Note! All this was way before everything changed… blue mage seems to be awesome after all updates, I just don’t care it anymore…

This is my guide about playing blue mage, not leveling but playing job as 75. It’s mix and match from guides, forum posts and own experience. Please feel free to comment!

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BLUE MAGE

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Blue Mage is very versatile job depending your spell set and sub job. Blue mage is not top tier DD, sleeper, healer, stunner, buffer… but it surely can do all of those ok. So if you want to shine on some specific area, do not pick BLU.

The main problem is that you need to know up front in what role event leader wants you to be. Setting spells during fight is not something you want to do. That means you need to know what you are going to do and pick your thing and style on your own because leader might not think like blue mages do. Go and show your best part and blue mages conquer the world!

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REQUIRED SUB JOBS

THF
Sneak + Trick Attack stacks with single target physical spells like Frenetic Rip, Death Scissors. Absolutely marvellous to boost your damage and same time handling with hate management. Be aware that you prolly end up death if you use CASA+spell in the beginning of fight. Practise it and you won’t regret!

NIN
Boooooring. Yes, it’s NIN. Yes, you’ll get o the mighty shadows. Yey. Use it if you need it.

WHM
I say blue mage can main heal.

MNK
Have fun for a day and sub monk, set your breaths and gather HP equipment. Hang on tight and breeeeeeeeath!

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USEFUL MACROS

As blue mage you might not have “standard macros” because it all depends your spell set. You always have Head Butt set, very often spells like Refueling, Diamondhide, Warm-Up, Magic Fruit, Cocoon, MP Drainkiss, Enervation… I have different macro sets for different events (dynamis, sky,…).

Every spell has different modifier so gear swaps make your BLU shine. For gear swaps you can do like this (calculations on spell is done when the spell finishes casting):

/ma “Frenetic Rip” <t>
/equip body “Mirke Wardecors”
/equip ring2 “Thunder Ring” …

For /THF you need SATA and CASATA macro!  With PS2 and Xbox360 you surely are struggling with only 6 lines, so just pick the most important things on gear swap and try to live with it.

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EQUIPMENT

Equipment is depending on your role. The basic set is mix of Homam set (!), Mirage set, Magus set, PCC, ACC rings, dusk etc. Spells have different modifiers so you need to swap gear for spells: DEX + STR in many cases. Don’t focus on MP or evasion, focus on ACC and Haste. Breath spells have HP modifier and don’t miss Saurian Helm and ele staves! If you heal, use Errant, other MND gear and staves.

Sword

• Beast Slayer
• Perdu Hanger
• Fragarach (for rich bitches)
• Erling’s
• Ifrit’s Blade

Shield

• Genbu’s Shield
• Acheron Shield (for /THF + Cannonball)

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MERITS

1. Diffusion (cap at 10 mins)!

• Diffusion + Warm-Up = +10 Evasion and +10 Accuracy for 180 secs in DD party
• Diffusion + Zephyr Mantle = 4 shadows in tank party
• Diffusion + Triumhant Roar = +15% Attack for 60 secs for zerking (!)

2. Sword, MP, Physical Potency, Magical Accuracy, Assimilation… up to you really.

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SPELL SETS

Always useful

• Head Butt  (stun with 12 MP)
• Enervation (-10% defense and -8 magic defense bonus AoE, doesn’t wake up sleeping mobs)
• Infrasonics (-20 evasion)
• Diamondhide (stoneskinsga)
• Cocoon (+50% def, always before Cannonball)
• Refueling (10% haste for 5 mins)
• Wild Carrot, Magic Fruit, Healing Breeze (~ Cure III, Cure IV, Curaga)
• Auto-Refresh trait (spells + Mirage body + sigil/sanction = 3MP)
• Hysteric Barrage (dmg)
• Cannonball (for Light solo with Savage Blade)

Dynamis

• Head Butt (stun)
• Frenetic Rip (nice dmg with CA)
• Soporific (dark 90 sec sleepga >.>)
• Frost Breath (against THF and PLD mobs who have 2hrd)
• Refueling (overwrites Xarxa’s AoE slow)
• Warm Up
• Enervation
• MP Drainkiss (kiss statues for ~100MP if you can)

Sky

• Head Butt
• Diamondhide
• Zephyr Mantle
• Frenetic Rip (with CASATA!)
• Exuviation (Erase and tiny heal)
• Dimensional Death (nice dmg to dolls with CA)

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TIPS

• TP is modifier for Head Butt stun and knockback, so don’t use your TP if you need to focus on stunning, use some INT       gear
• Diffusion + Exuviation = Erasega
• Diffusion + Refueling = Hastega