What ATMAS to use

[Habiki]

I.E. /RDM offers nothing for offense.

Moving on, spamming spells and not letting your swords do work is inefficient and a decrease in overall DPS.

It's only a loss in dps if your spell damage is so poor it can't outweigh your melee dps.

Regardless this is off topic and most other posts in this thread are also off topic people should just put what atmas they use so people have an idea of what is good in differant situations not try to belittle others for the atma choices it's childish even if you have math to back it up.

The nice thing about blue mage is that its a hybrid job and there can be many differant play styles and just because one atma doesn't increase your damage specifically, doesn't mean its the same for everyone.

Players should only use this thread as a starting point as to what atma to use if they have no clue how blue mage works with differant atmas and try each out for themselves not blindly follow others choices because they say its the best. Regardless of w/e math or parses they did every blue is not the same.

[Aeonk]

It's only a loss in dps if your spell damage is so poor it can't outweigh your melee dps.

Regardless this is off topic and most other posts in this thread are also off topic people should just put what atmas they use so people have an idea of what is good in differant situations not try to belittle others for the atma choices it's childish even if you have math to back it up.

The nice thing about blue mage is that its a hybrid job and there can be many differant play styles and just because one atma doesn't increase your damage specifically, doesn't mean its the same for everyone.

Players should only use this thread as a starting point as to what atma to use if they have no clue how blue mage works with differant atmas and try each out for themselves not blindly follow others choices because they say its the best. Regardless of w/e math or parses they did every blue is not the same.

The problem with ignoring Sword DPS in favor of spell spamming, can be summed up in 1 factor:
Haste
Haste does next to nothing for your spell DPS. Maybe shaves a second off your recast timers. But your spike dmg will always be from Chain Affinity/Efflux, and last I checked, Haste doesn't reduce JA timers.

Sword DPS that's supported with Haste buffs and proper Atma's like Razed Ruins will pull ahead of spell DPS, especially since a Sword reliant BLU can still use spells just as effectively.

The difference between the spell spammer and the balanced BLU, is that the spell spammer spends their time waiting on recast timers for their good spells, and spamming less effective spells in between. Time that could be better spent having significant sword damage output.

This notion is true both Pre and Post-Almace. And that's not even including things like Food or BRD buffs.