Post your BLU builds

[Genralzod]

boosts to attack rating do affect Blue physical spells, souleater, last resort, boost, plenilune embrace, fantod, warcry, berserk etc, even SATA. This is why Fantod is consumed after casting, and since Triumphant Roar is a stackable seperate attack boost, there's no reason to suggest it wont boost the physical spells. Unless there's a math wiz out there that can show me some testing. in my opinion ATK has a role in Physical spells, just like M.ATK has a role in the magical spells.
(side note: wierd how physical spells behave as physical attacks in every way except they proc Azure Lights?)

[Kwate]

I duo alot with a BLM, while the BLM is out pulling spam Fantod as much as you can, when you see him coming in use Memento Mori > Burst Affinity > Charged Whisker (usually around 4k -4.5k dmg) then follow it up with Thermal Pulse and watch the massive amount of chests.

Blu is amazing if you learn the tricks to it, good hunting!!!

Fantod is broken, as the next BLU spell no matter enhancing or enemy targeted will consume its effect

[Kwate]

SE really needs to fix that.

[Alistaire]

boosts to attack rating do affect Blue physical spells, souleater, last resort, boost, plenilune embrace, fantod, warcry, berserk etc, even SATA. This is why Fantod is consumed after casting, and since Triumphant Roar is a stackable seperate attack boost, there's no reason to suggest it wont boost the physical spells. Unless there's a math wiz out there that can show me some testing. in my opinion ATK has a role in Physical spells, just like M.ATK has a role in the magical spells.
(side note: wierd how physical spells behave as physical attacks in every way except they proc Azure Lights?)

I'd have to look it up but there's clear testing from back when BLU first came out that it doesn't. Easiest test is to go BLU/WAR and cast spells with Defender then with Berserk. And of course there's the bonus there that if you do anything BLU/WAR you can ride defender and it won't affect your spell damage.

Granted a few things in your list aren't an attack boost: Souleater isn't, it's a seperate factor that adds 5% of your HP to the damage regardless of attack/defense (subbed that is), Plenilune/Fantod give a MAB boost too which does work on magical spells. Sneak Attack is also not an attack boost. Trick Attack does nothing to damage with THF sub in any case.

And sure, they could have made physical spells proc pearl, or ruby even since they're more comparable to weapon skills than regular melee hits. Very glad they made it azure.

[Alistaire]

Atma of Beyond, Minikin, Apoc if im lazy and dont want to use RR item..... or any other MaB atma.

You should look into Atma of the Lion. Beyond is only 30 MAB for non ice/light spells, Lion is 40 MAB for thunder spells, -10% pdt for getting beat on and 10% triple attack for pearl light building.

[RaenRyong]

Lion/BlindingHorn/Ultimate for aoe burn is what I use.

Pull or have mobs pulled to you => CA Efflux Whirl of Rage => Dream Flower => heal yourself => Amplification/Sound Blast/Enervation => BA Charged Whisker for about 5.6k damage without Ascetic's. Combined with the earlier Whirl damage, not much survives!

For general BLU stuff I tend to use

Cocoon
Head Butt
Blank Gaze or Geist Wall
Frightful Roar often if NMs
Magic Fruit often
Disseverment
Actinic Burst
Exuviation
Plenilune Embrace
Cimicine Discharge
Animating Wail
Battery Charge
Goblin Rush
Vanity Dive
Quadratic Continuum
Dream Flower
Delta Thrust
Winds of Promyvion

with a few other situational spells thrown in here and there. Likely to make a more melee-trait orientated one when servers come back up.

[Kwate]

Lion/BlindingHorn/Ultimate for aoe burn is what I use.

Pull or have mobs pulled to you => CA Efflux Whirl of Rage => Dream Flower => heal yourself => Amplification/Sound Blast/Enervation => BA Charged Whisker for about 5.6k damage without Ascetic's. Combined with the earlier Whirl damage, not much survives!

For general BLU stuff I tend to use

Cocoon
Head Butt
Blank Gaze or Geist Wall
Frightful Roar often if NMs
Magic Fruit often
Disseverment
Actinic Burst
Exuviation
Plenilune Embrace
Cimicine Discharge
Animating Wail
Battery Charge
Goblin Rush
Vanity Dive
Quadratic Continuum
Dream Flower
Delta Thrust
Winds of Promyvion

with a few other situational spells thrown in here and there. Likely to make a more melee-trait orientated one when servers come back up.

Just curious, why both?

[Kwate]

My general set:

WoP (Auto-refresh)
Actinic Burst (Auto-refresh)
Animating Wail
Cocoon
Occulation
Zephyr Mantle
Blank Gaze
Battery Charge
Dreamflower (M. Attack)
Soundblast (M. Attack)
Acrid Stream (DA Trait)
Regeneration
Magic Fruit
Empty Thrash (DA Trait)
Head Butt
Delta Thrust (DW)
Benthic Typhoon
Quad Cut (DW)
Whirl of Rage

-I keep M. Attack their for Sanguine Blades (also via SB build set), i average ~800+ saved my ass several times and conserves mp.

[RaenRyong]

Just curious, why both?

Err, wups; was actually a typo. Used Exuviation a bit in the past and I was just going through a spell list and taking out which I used often in order; guess I brainfarted there and listed one I used to use.

[Harmless]

We all know that BLU's versatility is obscene but I thought I'd post a couple of my most used spell sets. I'm only adding my current TP gear set since posting every different spell swap ect... would take ages.

My current TP set is:

http://www.ffxiah.com/item-sets/205174

Generally for spells I set:

BLU/WAR (Double Attack Trait Not Required)
Actinic Burst (4) - AOE Flash & Auto Refresh
Goblin Rush (3) - Skillchain Bonus
Animating Wail (5) - Haste & Dual Wield
Quad. Cont. (4) - DMG & Dual Wield
Delta Thrust (2) - Low Mp Dmg, Plague & Dual Wield
Blazing Bound (3) - Dual Wield
Battery Charge (3) - Refresh
Winds Of Promy (5) - Aoe Erase & Auto Refresh
Occultation (3) - Blink
Head Butt (3) - Stun
Auroral Drape (4) - Aoe Silence & Blind & Fast Cast
Benthic Typhoon (4) - Darkness Closer with CDC & Completes Skillchain Bonus Trait
Cimicine Discharge (3) - Slow
Plenilune Embrace (4) - Cure & Attack Up
Sub-Zero Smash (4) - Paralyze & Completes Fast Cast Trait

Some of the enfeebling type spells are taken out depending on party/solo and replaced with spells like:
Triumphant Roar (3) - Attack Boost (For CDC)
Fantod (1) - Attack Boost
ect...

BLU/NIN (Replace Dual Wield Spells with Double Attack)

BLU/THF (May require only setting 1 Tier of Dual Wield if Double Attack is to be set as well)
Vanity Dive (2) - SATA/CA/Efflux DMG

BLU/RDM
Charged Whisker (4) - AOE Nuke
Occultation (3) - Blink
Dream Flower (3) - Sleepga & MAB Trait
Thermal Pulse (3) - AOE Nuke
Fantod (1) - Magic Boost
Battery Charge (3) - Refresh
Animating Wail (5) - Haste
Leafstorm (4) - AOE Nuke
Acrid Stream (3) - Conal Nuke & MDB Down
Plenilune Embrace (4) - Cure & Magic Attack Boost
Actinic Burst (4) - AOE Flash & Auto Refresh
Amplification (3) - MAB (If Memento Mori is on recast)
Enervation (5) - AOE MDB Down
Memento Mori (4) - MAB and MAB Trait
Sheep Song (2) - Sleepga
Cocoon (1) - Defense Boost
Whirl Of Rage (2) - AOE Physical Dmg (Macro in a sword if staves are equipped from nuking)

These are my 3 most used setups. I didn't add a full /THF set because I generally use a hybrid of /WAR & /NIN spells. I have been experimenting with BLU/MNK lately (the last week before servers were shutdown) and may edit this post with my conclusions from that at a later date. Feel free to comment and discuss ^^