Blue mage Meriting

[larrymc]

Heavy Strike is inherent -60 accuracy (roughly), full merits bring it up to... -50 accuracy. For one spell.

That is actually the point. For most blu spells or additional effects, a +10 acc is a very minor improvement since the accuracy for both is already quite good. For this particular blu spell, since it was so heavily nerfed by SE, the difference is quite noticeable. Heavy strike is strong/good enough that it deserves some extra attention to make it land more.

[saevel]

That is actually the point. For must blu spells or additional effects, a +10 acc is a very minor improvement since the accuracy for both is already quite good. For this particular blu spell, since it was so heavily nerfed by SE, the difference is quite noticeable. Heavy strike is strong/good enough that it deserves some extra attention to make it land more.

A.spikes / Q.Cont / Q.Strike are usually better the H.Strike unless your inside Abyssea with RR set. And you shouldn't be having acc issues inside Abysesa anyway.

[larrymc]

A.spikes / Q.Cont / Q.Strike are usually better the H.Strike unless your inside Abyssea with RR set. And you shouldn't be having acc issues inside Abysesa anyway.

I think its just a difference in playstyle. Inside Abby, VW, all the G1 merits are virtually meaningless because of atmas, temps, atmacites. If you use blu alot outside of these events as I do, then you want to focus on spells that do the most damage for minimal MP, and that is Heavy Strike by a huge margin, better than A.spikes, Q.Cont, and Q.Strike. MP conservation seems to be a lost art. I use A.spikes for skillchain with CDC primarily.

[SpankWustler]

I think its just a difference in playstyle. Inside Abby, VW, all the G1 merits are virtually meaningless because of atmas, temps, atmacites. If you use blu alot outside of these events as I do, then you want to focus on spells that do the most damage for minimal MP, and that is Heavy Strike by a huge margin, better than A.spikes, Q.Cont, and Q.Strike. MP conservation seems to be a lost art. I use A.spikes for skillchain with CDC primarily.

Right now, stuff outside of Abyssea and Voidwatch generally means level 75 content. You have gained roughly 130 accuracy from skill since that content was made.