BLM how to spend points effectively ?

Hello im pretty new in the game, and i want to make a BLM for my first character experience.

The thing is i don't know how to spend my points, i know the main attribute is Intelligence, but i don't know how much points spent on it, and what other attributes i have to improve.

Thanks by advance for your help ^^

As far as I know, most players spend all 30 points into Intelligence. You may want to spend a few points in piety so you're at 244 piety at level 50, however. The only reason to do so is solely for AoE reasons. When you have a scholar in your party and you use convert. at 244 piety you have exactly enough MP to cast another fire II and another flare. Any less you can cast a fire II, but no flare.

This is simply preferences, though.

Thank for your answer :)

Everything in Intelligence.

It depends on starting Race.

For yours I would have said all Int.

For a midlander I would have said 29 Int 1 Pie. (not for AoE reasons)

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Originally Posted by scarebearz

It depends on starting Race.

For yours I would have said all Int.

For a midlander I would have said 29 Int 1 Pie. (not for AoE reasons)

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Could you elaborate which reasons?

What are the secondaries attributes too improve plz ?

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...age-Calculator

But I'll sum it up for you

Basically: If you do 640 damage on average, crit > determination. Spell speed is never bad as a black mage, but crit outweighs spell speed to a certain extend. In a nutshell: Crit >>> Spell speed > Det if you do more than 640 damage on average. (which is easily obtained with i85 gear)

by having 251 piety you don't need a sch you can always use fire II + flair, after a convert. IT also allows you to cast fire, blizzard three and thunder 2 after a convert, it also allows you to have 1 extra fire in your rotation before switching to umbral ice, which mean more astral fire up time and proc chances.

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Originally Posted by Lyrica_Ashtine

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...age-Calculator

But I'll sum it up for you

Basically: If you do 640 damage on average, crit > determination. Spell speed is never bad as a black mage, but crit outweighs spell speed to a certain extend. In a nutshell: Crit >>> Spell speed > Det if you do more than 640 damage on average. (which is easily obtained with i85 gear)

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The difference in spellspeed and crit is actually far smaller than what you are saying.

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Originally Posted by Urielparadox

by having 251 piety you don't need a sch you can always use fire II + flair, after a convert. IT also allows you to cast fire, blizzard three and thunder 2 after a convert, it also allows you to have 1 extra fire in your rotation before switching to umbral ice, which mean more astral fire up time and proc chances.

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Actually, it allows you to use Thunder 2 straight in Ice Phase instead of Thunder 1. I personally prefer to use Thunder 1 anyway, and don't have any issues with my DPS.