FINAL FANTASY XI Job Adjustmentｓ Manifesto [Blue Mage]

[Kyte]

They give a Refresh enhancement, which is more or less the same thing in practice.

[Zagen]

They give a Refresh enhancement, which is more or less the same thing in practice.

Don't get me wrong, they are a great item but I mentioned "not auto-refresh" because I can't slap them on and get MP out of them without doing anything else, which is the gear I was looking for when I made that list of gear.

[Tashan]

Those Refresh pins are a pain to find. Just abot to start farming them for my 3rd day in a row.

[Prothscar]

Wonder if we'll ever get a Community Rep response to this thread like other jobs have gotten to theirs.

[Bigboy]

It would be super swell if we could combine spells (even for really expensive totals) to add job abilities to BLU. I would expect them to be abilities we could already get from available subjobs, in the same vein as the job traits we already have access to.

[Ravenmore]

Rdm doesn't have to give up all thier melee gear just to get the max refresh gear. Also relic hats rain from the sky now in dyna a event with no annoying stones and lights to worry about really they are hitting the floor now. After 5 days of farming with max, middle of the road, no amber the hair pin is by far harder to get then a hat that you know whats stats are on it every time it drops. Rdms can make use of idle sets more since thier not MELEEing. Really though its kinda mute once we leave abyssea rdm will be far ahead of blu again, blu will be useless in the new endgame.

[Neisan_Quetz]

Need magical nukes for procs in VW. All of them.

[Ravenmore]

Thought those change over the course of the fight, is it lock into on one magical type or does that change as well. Not hitting it will not mean a loss or a harder fight as not having the back up healing of rdm and refresh II. Haven't really done it and not conviced it will be the end of the line endgame for 99 unless they make the 95 - 99 emp.weapon trials use it. The best gear thats not a complete sidegrade over af3 is AH able. SE dug a whole for them selfs when they made af3 and then saying it was the peak with everything coming later as sidegrade.

[Tashan]

Rdm doesn't have to give up all thier melee gear just to get the max refresh gear. Also relic hats rain from the sky now in dyna a event with no annoying stones and lights to worry about really they are hitting the floor now. After 5 days of farming with max, middle of the road, no amber the hair pin is by far harder to get then a hat that you know whats stats are on it every time it drops. Rdms can make use of idle sets more since thier not MELEEing. Really though its kinda mute once we leave abyssea rdm will be far ahead of blu again, blu will be useless in the new endgame.

Hi Raven,

Can you elaborate on this a bit more? I didn't understand what the point to any of it was.

Rdm doesn't have to give up all thier melee gear just to get the max refresh gear.

Are you suggesting that you would be meleeing in equipment such as Estoqueur's Sayon +2 and Duelist Chapeau?

Or are you saying that because you're not doing any meleeing, you get to spend more time idling and thus standing in Refresh gear?

Also relic hats rain from the sky now in dyna a event with no annoying stones and lights to worry about really they are hitting the floor now. After 5 days of farming with max, middle of the road, no amber the hair pin is by far harder to get then a hat that you know whats stats are on it every time it drops

Why wouldn't you have amber lights?

The hair pin is harder to get than the hat, but the +1 Refresh on it is not gamebreaking for Blue Mage.

Rdms can make use of idle sets more since thier not MELEEing.

True, but it also means you're spending more time idling, or rather, not doing anything at all.

Really though its kinda mute once we leave abyssea rdm will be far ahead of blu again, blu will be useless in the new endgame

Not knowing what the new end game is, I can't really say for certain. But what a Red Mage needs to become more useful (higher tier curing spell, more potent enfeebles, better unique buffs) isn't what a Blue Mage needs as it either already has it or isn't aimed towards the same role.

[Zagen]

The hair pin is harder to get than the hat, but the +1 Refresh on it is not gamebreaking for Blue Mage.

How so? You do realize not everyone has Xarc access right? Which is something you can't solo, well not that I know of anyways. Hairpin you can.

Also I doubt the original point of Auto-Refresh gear was to say it was game breaking at least I never got that impression.