New update, new subjob?

[Jar]

I disagree with BLU not being so useful. For survival's sake, it adds a lot of options. The only blue magic spells that wouldn't really be too beneficial are the ones that take a long time to cast mid-battle. Otherwise you can chuck out a stun and then cast it.

Urteil would know more on the subject than me since he plans on giving it a shot. Otherwise, I'm in full agreement with what's written there.

yeah phys blue magic is a waste /blu because blue magic skill is a huge factor in attack and base damage <_<

the magic blu magic all has longercasting times and acc is blue magic skill..

what did you want it for agian?

oh right prob cocoon so usefull....................................

[Dart]

you can land sheep song on jesus!

God i hated that in ballista <_<

[Urteil]

you can land sheep song on jesus!

God i hated that in ballista <_<

#!@$!@$!#$$

/signed

[Fyreus]

The other thing is that headbutt is mainly an acc thing while the blu skill helps increase the proc rate. On rng/blu with axe i still get to stun dc lol so i guess it may or may not be an option to some but its nice to have here and there

[Urteil]

The only reason I'd be considering /blu is because with Desperate Blows up all the time I don't really see much keeping hate off me, I don't want to waste time casting shadows and Third Eye is a PoS.

You have the VIT (Especially with Caladbolg) to back up Cocoon's defense boost, VIT is going to be a better stat now with the modifications to critical damage.

And there is some minimal utility I suppose from the Blue Magic spells we have access to/ traits.

[Rezeak]

With /THF sub there are time for me it adds alot more DMG than /SAM in abyssea.

For example when i was fighting the mega boss cerb inside abyssea atlep i was there with another DRK/SAM using Caladborg his WS were doing 900-1.5k most of the time and i was doing 5k-6k WS which easily put me well ahead of him in DMG.

Like i said it's not all the time.

As for /BLU i don't think i'd ever use it unless i'm missing some job trait.

[Apocalypse]

at events im usually told to come /nin but i usually play /sam.. as for /thf dmgs r nice but it slow you down abit vs mnk, war, sam, nin. and for /war its nice to have DA and all... when it all comes to bottom, id rather play as /sam.

[vedder]

when i didnt 2box my own whm i occasionally used /rdm, refresh fast cast stoneskin phalanx are decent spells and with fast cast jt plus when done killing u can rebuff/cure up with healing spells its got a nice niche

leveling /sch atm to see how it works but its just a gimick sj i think similar to but not out performing /mnk in abyssea (25 mnk atm >< gdi knew i shoulda hit 30 all those years ago)

[Dart]

as always it depends on what you're trying to do. For pure dmg. Nothing is beating /sam and x hit build. Nothing.

/rdm is fun if i'm on stun duty or generally messing around but I almost never use it. Again it all depends on what you're trying to do. I play drk like a pure dd job so I'm always trying to maximize my damage output.

never tried /blu outside ballista so I can't comment from personal experience.

as previously mentioned. /mnk is a barrel of fun if you can keep hate.

/war if i'm feeling suicidal and wanna play around a bit, but again I almost never go this route.

I don't /nin anymore. I don't see a reason to on drk (or really any job) with whm's in god mode. If they claim that they can't handle it if you aren't /nin. Then you need to get better mages. I'm sorry, I know that is assholish but its just the plain truth. Have those people come on brd or blm for yellow and shut up.

/thf is cute for spike dmg but it will never outdamage /sam on any type of extended engagement.

[Rezeak]

From my experience it has I mean I've even been in a couple of situation where it has been DRK/THF (with Espafut+2) and DRK/SAM (with Caladborg) and even with the empryan advantage i'm still well ahead because on the harder mobs your looking at 4-5X WS DMG.

It looked like the SAM got just under double the number of WS off and had alot more melee DMG (mainly cause his aftermath and all but he had like 10-20% more hits off overall) but me getting 4-5x More DMG than his WS push me over by a fair distance.

Really it's only true on the harder stuff in abyssea the avg day to day mob or lower tier mobs /SAM is what i'd use.
But when i fight anything tough i find /THF always puts closer to the WARs and MNKs occasionally beating them but thats more to do with me surviving than DMG lol.

Tho after the update i may drop /THF for /WAR i mean being able to cap pdif with berserk and last resort on the harder mobs could push /WAR over /THf in those sitituations i dunno i'll just try it when it comes out.

As to you Dart you did say before you always have a BRD with you well if i did i'm sure i'd /SAM over /THF because i'm guessing ya always in a high haste situation and in that kind place hasso alone is adding about another 50% DMG