BLu gear

[Selzak]

Would it be beneficial to melee in Mavi Minta +1/+2 and macro in Magus Jubbah after the /ma spell casting line in a macro?

[Quedari]

Speaking of evasion gear and tanking, does anyone have a good setup they can link me to or list? I haven't tried any kind of tanking except "I'm the only DD left alive, I better try to keep it off the mages til the NIN can Mijin" because I tend to be pretty bad at getting shadows back up (on any job lol). Also, I tend to be one of the last people to get cured in my group, probably because I'm BLU and have access to cure spells, regardless of how difficult it might be to get the cures cast.

[Prothscar]

EVA Set

Is what I use. Mirke has EVA and Fast Cast on it, Shamshir is EVA brand. Some upgrades can be made to it but with Auroral Drape I cap evade on most things. Can add Spiral Spin too, (Sandspin would be superior but its proc rate is abyssmal).

[Defiledsickness]

i never said blu's shouldnt melee i said he shouldnt. you only seem to have read the first line in each quote and then totally interrupt it wrong.

That's pretty backwards. With an evasion set you won't get hit. You don't need SID for Ichi.

on some mobs you cant cap eva against them. even with capped eva you wont dodge EVERY hit (this would break the game). you can cap SID at 100% so why not do so? it works the same as evading and i already have the pieces from pld or rdm.

i have an eva set, i just prefer not to use it. on certain things eva is the best way to go, but when farming seals you normally go; Nin, Blu, Whm, Blm/brd. So i am backup tank. why? not because i have any problem keeping hate, but because nin is a job too and i will use it like i use all of my tools and gear. (and omega and ultima are both super easy nms :P)

i never said to use a Subtle Blow set i was commenting on a rather poor explanation by a poster. in reply it seems his thoughts had more background to them but he didnt share in his first post (the one i commented on). if you're on asura you're more then welcome to show me what you think blu is suppose to do and i'll show you right back.

and i dont use windower so by the time i hit the 3macros it takes to fully swap gear im a bit further then those who only need to hit 1. makes it a bit tougher to scroll through everything and add more sets.

[Prothscar]

you can cap SID at 100% so why not do so? it works the same as evading and i already have the pieces from pld or rdm.

It doesn't work nearly the same.

[Neisan_Quetz]

SIR Set is best if you're fighting something you can't evade yes, but if you can evade it, use evasion. BLU has less problems evading mobs than Rld or Rdm due to gear/spells/settable traits (both Rdm and Pld have brick evasion on anything worthwhile except maybe if you merited blind 2 and even then...).