Please help me decide on what gear to get

[Ahmed]

Hello
I leeched my way up to level 90, only used BLM as a subjob so I'm kinda lost.
I don't want to buy gear that I would stop using after getting level 90.
Also, AF pieces..

What's worth getting? (other than AF3+2 cause I'm currently working on those, plus trials Staff)

(I don't have any gear for BLM, not even past AFs)

[Bubeeky]

Most important thing to get is the spells, especially the TIV nukes, as expensive as they are, because those are your Aby triggers.

Easy things to get that will do you well are the Goetia Cape, Moldavite Earring, INT Rings (Snow Rings are really cheap these days), Witchstone, Goetia Chain, Goetia Earring, and Searing Sash. For the visible gear (head, body, hands, etc) I'd recommend going for the Literae Set until you get your AF3+1, if you don't have it already...Literae can give you a lot of MAB.

I'm sure there's better gear out there than what I mentioned, but those pieces should get you decently outfitted to go after the bigger things.

[Darkwizardzin]

half of the Teal set from abyssea is nice to start with for black mage (and it's very easy to get) the Igqira/Genie set is also a great place to start.

[Babekeke]

Assuming that you actually capped everything on RDM, you still have gimped dark magic and elemental magic, so until you cap those, it doesn't really matter what you wear, you're still gimped.

[Quedari]

Assuming that you actually capped everything on RDM, you still have gimped dark magic and elemental magic, so until you cap those, it doesn't really matter what you wear, you're still gimped.
Oh look, here you are spouting the same crap as you did in his thread on the WHM forums. Assuming his RDM had capped skills at 75 and he's used his RDM from 75-90, his magic skill should be far from "gimp". Gear can help his magic accuracy for ele and dark, within reason. As I said before, if you're not going to help, don't bother posting.

For AF, the body is nice for enfeeb+10 and the legs are nice for dark+15. The hands have elemental+15, but if you're reasonably past the level 75 cap for ele, you'll probably do better with eradicos mitts (100% drop from Ulhuadshi) or AF3+1/+2. Literae head with INT+3 augment and Literae body with MAB+3-5 are probably the two best literae pieces for BLM. I personally used teal pants instead of hoping for literae pants augments until I got AF3+2 pants (got +1 and +2 on the same day, yay for Gukumatz and Sobek spams). If you have bad luck with literae augments, teal head and body are good place holders until AF3+1/+2. Igqira head and legs are good for enfeeb, if you don't need to conserve inventory. I use cognition belt instead of searing sash because I can use cognition for my RDM, and I couldn't tell you how much of a damage difference there is, if there is one. Searing Cape is nice (from Turul), fairly easy to get if you find a group hunting Loki's Kaftans as cape seems to be the more common drop. Goetia Chain was a pain to get, even with blue!! the drop rate was bad. Artemis' Medal beats Goetia Chain when moon phase is above 30%/40%, I believe, and even with less than 40% moon you just gain more magic acc. If you need the inventory space, you can just use Artemis', but for max damage you'll want Goetia Chain or Feud Pendant for mp over 50% and an Uggalepih pendant for mp under 50%. Bubeeky's list above is good, especially the note about proc spells. If you don't already have HQ ele staves from RDM, buying a cheap NQ or HQ will get you by until your magian staves surpass them.

[Neisan_Quetz]

Rdm has E dark and C- elemental skill, so yes even if he was capped on Rdm it would still be gimped, not that it matters much unless you're getting resisted heavily. I would care more if atmas/cruor buffs/readily available temp items didn't make up the difference (my friend leeched Blm up and aside from horrible returns on drain/aspir until skill was closer to capped MM/Ultimate/(Affinty atma of the week and you'll still do more damage than an alliance full of gimps).

[katz]

Go delevel your blm, learn the job next time you level it, then learn where you are weakest and what gear you need to buy.

[Neisan_Quetz]

Blm isn't hard unless you're mentally retarded. Rdm is more complicated

[Epysian]

Go delevel your blm, learn the job next time you level it, then learn where you are weakest and what gear you need to buy.

Because BLM is such a hard job to learn. Learn where you are weakest? What?

Anyway, for the OP, Bubeeky made some good suggestions. I believe an ideal nuking set would be something like:
HQ or Magian Damage staff/Bugard +1(unless there's a new grip i missed)/nothing/Witchstone
AF3+2/Goetia Necklace/Hecate's Earring/Moldavite
AF3+2/AF3+2/INT rings (preferably +7 from Abyssea-Vunkerl gold boxes)
Searing Cape/Cognition Belt/AF3+2/AF3+2

Unless I'm missing something I think that's the best you can get for now, barring Novio but if you have that you would know to use it I assume. I'm surprised that no one has mentioned Uggy Pendant. It still has uses in a nuking set, even with all the Refresh you have in Abyssea you'll still end up below half MP sometimes. As far as AF1, I would say go after the legs and body, both are good holdovers until you get Portent Pants and AF3+2 body. Relic hat is decent for high resist stuff until you have the AF3+2 head, relic legs are a must have and relic hands are nice for a dark magic set. If you don't have a refresh body like the AF3+1 or 2 body, go after Sorcerer's Coat I suppose, but that time would probably be better spend hunting down body seals.

Also, make sure you have a few different sets to toss on depending on the situation. Enfeebling is one of your most important sets, look into Igqira legs and head like Darkwizard mentioned. The AF body is good for that, then later replace that with AF body +1 or AF3+2 body. Enfeebling torque is not too expensive. You don't need nearly as much Mind gear as you used to in order to cap Stoneskin if your enhancing is capped but you should still be carrying around some big MND pieces like Mahatma slops and Errant/Mahatma Houppelande to cast that in. Go after items like Siegal Sash and Haven Hose for a beter stoneskin too. And invest in a decent idle set with some -physical damage taken items like Cheviot/Umbra Cape, it can and will save your life.

[Retsujo]

Oh look, here you are spouting the same crap as you did in his thread on the WHM forums.

Obvious troll is obvious, I would've just ignored her. You do make some good points, however.

[Ahmed]

Thank you all for your advice guys, I'm still working on getting my gear.
Oh and asking me to go dlevel my blm and then learn properly?
I chose to learn properly by asking questions, I've been RDM this whole time remember? Guess what? they're similar. >.>

Once I get all gear ready, on WHM too, I'm gonna ask more questions. ;p

Thanks to everyone who's helped. :)

[Boofaceing]

Hey Ahmed I'm not new to the game but new to BLM and the forums and I'm on the same page as you, Ill follow these guys advice. Dont listen to the older players putting you down though. I'll tell you how these guys work.

New players: Hey Can someone help me figure out how to party or level up or get gear?
Older Elitist Player who talks shit all day: Yea, go join a book burn party and you'll go to 90 in no time.
New Players: How do we do that?
Older Elitist again: Come here and do this and thats all you can do because there is no partying in this game except for end game and book burns.
New Players: Alrite thanks I appreciate it.

1 month later.

Older Elitist Player: what are you doing nooob? Why didn't you level your class right and learn to play it? Get out of here, in fact you suck.

So yea, never worry about it. They instruct you to book burn because the game is almost impossible to solo and then insult you for it later. Isn't your fault that Square Enix made the game multiplayer to support its single player playerbase and you should never be put off by it. Learn by doing.

[Neisan_Quetz]

Learning how to play a class isn't hard. Especially not Blm.

[Babekeke]

Hey Ahmed I'm not new to the game but new to BLM and the forums and I'm on the same page as you, Ill follow these guys advice. Dont listen to the older players putting you down though. I'll tell you how these guys work.

New players: Hey Can someone help me figure out how to party or level up or get gear?
Older Elitist Player who talks shit all day: Yea, go join a book burn party and you'll go to 90 in no time.
New Players: How do we do that?
Older Elitist again: Come here and do this and thats all you can do because there is no partying in this game except for end game and book burns.
New Players: Alrite thanks I appreciate it.

1 month later.

Older Elitist Player: what are you doing nooob? Why didn't you level your class right and learn to play it? Get out of here, in fact you suck.

So yea, never worry about it. They instruct you to book burn because the game is almost impossible to solo and then insult you for it later. Isn't your fault that Square Enix made the game multiplayer to support its single player playerbase and you should never be put off by it. Learn by doing.

There were no parties around when I levelled BLM. I solo'd most of the way to 75. You now have the benefit of doubled exp, so soloing for new BLMs should only be half the grind it was for myself and others.

[Economizer]

Assuming that you actually capped everything on RDM, you still have gimped dark magic and elemental magic, so until you cap those, it doesn't really matter what you wear, you're still gimped.

To some extent, this poster is right. If your skills are super gimped, gear will only go so far. But I have good news for you in the short term (you'll skill it up over the course of play, so don't worry). There is a sub that magically makes all your skills less gimpy. It is called Scholar.

Sub Scholar, pop Dark Arts, instant skillup. Focus on your gear after this, the skill ups will come as you play more. This is even less of an issue if you had skills from Red Mage.

[Retsujo]

There were no parties around when I levelled BLM. I solo'd most of the way to 75. You now have the benefit of doubled exp, so soloing for new BLMs should only be half the grind it was for myself and others.

Unfortunately, half the grind of ages past is still 10x slower than a good book burn.

[Babekeke]

Unfortunately, half the grind of ages past is still 10x slower than a good book burn.

Which is fine if you're happy to spend the next month only subbing SCH until you cap your skills. By the time your skills are capped by book burning/abysea leeching to 95, then skilling up, you could have not only solo'd your way to 95 while keeping your skills capped, but you'd know a lot more about your job.

I did the leech then skill up method for WAR, which was fine for me, but magic jobs I find much more of a pain to skill up (and certainly not as simple as: grab 10 mnk mobs, hit defender and retalliation, watch skills rise while occasionally hitting curing waltz).

I'm currently soloing BLU to 95 just by collecting spells, and using book pages where possible while I'm learning them. This is also possible on BLM, though obviously if you go for the pet route, you can't use pages.

[Onitaru]

BLM is a waste of time level PLD