Broken/Useless BLU magic

[Selindrile]

Not to mention, "One of the design concepts things about levelling a job, is unlocking new weaponskills that are much more powerful than old ones! Which is why we just buffed the crap out of all the old weaponskills." wait, what?

And yet they say this to both Blu and Bst (Who have recently asked for all jug pets to no longer be level capped, which is I think a fantastic idea) "one of the design strategies is that as you level, you get access to stronger versions of certain types of things", it's just often, and hilariously untrue.

[Kafrein]

It makes sense to me really, the 'broken' spells perhaps aren't that useful in the lower levels but they're there if you need them. Blue Mage has a vast collection of spells and the idea is that you constantly update your strategy and repertoire to suit the situation, meaning stronger attack spells and so on. It's unique compared to other mage classes in that sense, because Black Mage still has a good usage for their low level spells. I don't think that's a necessity it's just a difference between the classes. While there are some spells that I think should be fixed, ultimately I agree with Square on their explanation.

I think Blue Mage has got a lot of attention and buffs recently and it's fantastic, so I am not about to complain about it.

[Sabishii]

Can we do something about pyric bulwark? The July update says: The name of the blue magic spell Pyric Bulwark has been adjusted to Polar Bulwark. (Added on 7/15/2014)

But it hasn't (at least in the english patch updates), and it still does the same thing. The only thing they did was change the element from ice to light (which doesn't do anything).

Maybe they should change the spell so it actually IS polar bulwark, the magic nullifying spell. Nullifying one HIT of physical damage doesn't do much. If it lasted for a set period of time, I'd use it. If it was like sentinel, or rampart, I'd use it. If it was a mini-invincible I'd use it. If it nullified magic damage instead of physical damage, I'd consider using it, because magic usually hits harder than physical hits from mobs. Right now, I'd rather use bloodrake to get my HP full in one spell, than a spell that'll just nullify the next melee swing, even if I use diffusion to give it to the whole party.

[Selindrile]

Right now, I'd rather use bloodrake to get my HP full in one spell, than a spell that'll just nullify the next melee swing, even if I use diffusion to give it to the whole party.

I haven't used Bloodrake since they buffed Sanguine Blade (which I'm grateful for), though double darkness is a neat idea, it's rarely useful.

You know what's never useful though, Bulwark, perhaps if they changed it to a Migawari type effect.

[Xsilver]

Should be changed to be a Migawari effect for 30 seconds, if damage exceeds 50% of your max HP, the damage is nullified. Lasts until it wears off or an attack of that caliber hits you.

[Worldslost]

First time posting in this forum haven't poured over the thread but my vote is for pollen to be adjusted. It could be a wonderful tool. I think OP mentioned Metallic Body in the same sense. Just those 2 spells would make blu a lot better in the solo dept. The self cure just added cost too much to set in the current 20/70 spell set system,

[Tennotsukai]

Just coming back from a few months break. I notice that Blu's Tourbillion and Barbed Crescent additional effects still do not work on most mobs. Right now, I'm using these spells on toads and pugils in Marjami Ravine, and I'm not getting the additional effects to land. Any idea how to fix this?

[YosemiteYogorockBlondelle]

Just coming back from a few months break. I notice that Blu's Tourbillon and Barbed Crescent additional effects still do not work on most mobs. Right now, I'm using these spells on toads and pugils in Marjami Ravine, and I'm not getting the additional effects to land. Any idea how to fix this?

Well maybe job points for the accuracy of additional effects might fix the issue or give a touch to it a bit maybe? Let me know as i'm adding 2 points to that Blu Job Point category and same to more blu points for spell's.

[dasva]

Well maybe job points for the accuracy of additional effects might fix the issue or give a touch to it a bit maybe? Let me know as i'm adding 2 points to that Blu Job Point category and same to more blu points for spell's.

It's highly doubtful. It's not a matter of them being slightly less accurate so much as they seem to be capped at a very low land rate so that even on too weak mobs they often wont land

[saevel]

It's not related to magic accuracy at all, it's proc rate. Both of those spells do physical damage with a chance of additional effect happening. SE has either purposely or by glitch made the proc rate stupidly low on these. I tested this on spiders in ToAU, the ones right outside in the thickets. As a 99 with 119 gear our magic acc is so far above the target that it's would be statistically impossible to have three to four in a row do complete resists. Instead it simply never proced and thus never did a MACC/MEVD check. Use Bilgestorm instead, -25% defense / attack / -10 acc and lasts for about 90 seconds. Torb IMHO is really just for SCing and BC is similiar to Mortal Ray, just there to make a job trait.