ANYONE DONE BLU YET?

Has anyone done BLU yet for 6.45? How is it?

I do plan on leveling BLU up to 80 but I hate Mask Carnivale with a passion, it is boring to me & have not done the Siegfried fight & really don't have any desire to do so which is sad because that is the only way to advance in BLU's storyline. Which I always thought was a bad idea tying the Mask Carnivale to BLU's storyline. I know I'm missing spells from totems you get from completing a certain amount of levels. My Blu has i400 augmented gear but only the i130 wand...lol.

Blue Academy on YouTube is amazing for masked carnival help

Just do the Carnivale dude.

Oh yeah, I never did finish the last Carnivale stage. Think I was having connection problems and then just forgot about it. I should do that.

My issue with BLU is that it's locked out of trusts/duty support. You know, the Solo job being unable to use the systems designed for solo play? Don't get it at all. Trusts/duty support is a glorified premade party.

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Originally Posted by SomeRandomHuman

My issue with BLU is that it's locked out of trusts/duty support. You know, the Solo job being unable to use the systems designed for solo play? Don't get it at all. Trusts/duty support is a glorified premade party.

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BLU already has an answer for that, it's Basic Instinct. Use that and dungeons are soloable just fine.

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Originally Posted by Canadane

BLU already has an answer for that, it's Basic Instinct. Use that and dungeons are soloable just fine.

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2 expansions ago. You're not soloing lvl 80 content at 80 (most players)

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Originally Posted by Nighthawky2010

Has anyone done BLU yet for 6.45? How is it?

I do plan on leveling BLU up to 80 but I hate Mask Carnivale with a passion, it is boring to me & have not done the Siegfried fight & really don't have any desire to do so which is sad because that is the only way to advance in BLU's storyline. Which I always thought was a bad idea tying the Mask Carnivale to BLU's storyline. I know I'm missing spells from totems you get from completing a certain amount of levels. My Blu has i400 augmented gear but only the i130 wand...lol.

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Story is kind of fun, but MC is frustrating, unfair, overturned garbage as it always has been and probably always will be.

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Originally Posted by JamieRose

Story is kind of fun, but MC is frustrating, unfair, overturned garbage as it always has been and probably always will be.

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I haven't been through all of the MC stages yet but I didn't see them as being unfair or overtuned.

You do need to pay attention to the elemental strengths and weaknesses (which I admit can be frustrating). There's a reason why MMOs have phased out elemental mechanics over the years - most players don't tend to find them fun or interesting. But it also doesn't hurt to have side content like Masked Carnival available to those who do.

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Originally Posted by Jojoya

I haven't been through all of the MC stages yet but I didn't see them as being unfair or overtuned.

You do need to pay attention to the elemental strengths and weaknesses (which I admit can be frustrating). There's a reason why MMOs have phased out elemental mechanics over the years - most players don't tend to find them fun or interesting. But it also doesn't hurt to have side content like Masked Carnival available to those who do.

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Getting constantly OHKO'd and having to take it from the top is neither fun nor fair.

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Originally Posted by Deceptus

2 expansions ago. You're not soloing lvl 80 content at 80 (most players)

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It's probably super easy to solo stuff now, using Peat Pelt and... the Broom one whatever it's called. Each enemy hit by the 1-2 gives a stack of 50p of Regen, up to 6. So you could essentially, in a trash pull, have a constant 300p regen ticking on you, twice as strong as a Medica 2's ticks. Plus it'd be doubled by Basic Instinct

@OP, yes I've done BLU, got all spells, completed the 'secret' achievement for the carnivale and got the umbrella. Since the only reward for doing any 'all blu, no echo, etc' fights is again a title, and Big Fish is clearly superior, that particular content is not worth the time/effort to me, so once again, BLU lifespan for me was roughly 12 hours. See you all in 2 years when the next update comes out for it

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Originally Posted by LianaThorne

Blue Academy on YouTube is amazing for masked carnival help

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thank you. i just subscribe to Blue Academy...thank you.

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Originally Posted by Deceptus

2 expansions ago. You're not soloing lvl 80 content at 80 (most players)

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I mean, I’m probably an above average BLU, but I’m nothing special, I just picked the job up since the patch today, farmed it to level 80, got all the open world spells and the breath of magic totem, then I went straight into soloing dungeons synced for the 100% spell learn rate. With just the spells I had at 70 + breath of magic (great dps but doesn’t fundamentally change anything about my level 70 kit) I’ve already soloed up to the first boss of Malikah’s well and the entirety of heroes gauntlet. So the 70 kit is still perfectly capable of taking on 80 dungeons and I imagine once I unlock some of the more powerful level 80 spells it’s only going to get easier from there.

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Originally Posted by SomeRandomHuman

My issue with BLU is that it's locked out of trusts/duty support. You know, the Solo job being unable to use the systems designed for solo play? Don't get it at all. Trusts/duty support is a glorified premade party.

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That is also my main issue with BLU. When it was first introduced, I was at fan fest, I was excited about it until the very next day at the live letter when they announce that you couldn't use BLU in squadrons or PotD. Even now, I feel SE seriously missed the mark by not allowing BLU into deep dungeons, Ereka, or go into dungeons with squadrons/trusts/duty supports.

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Originally Posted by Deceptus

2 expansions ago. You're not soloing lvl 80 content at 80 (most players)

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you can for sure solo most 80 dungeons with ease
Ultra vibration makes adds a breeze
missle obliterates most first and second bosses
I'd say berserker would be tough out of the final dungeon bosses but rest should be ez

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Originally Posted by ForsakenRoe

Plus it'd be doubled by Basic Instinct

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I tested this, and nope. Basic Instinct does not affect Deep Clean's regen. I guess the regen is coded weird? That is why they changed Aetheric Mimicry: Healer to increase the potency of all healing effects this patch, which does affect Deep Clean, and for some reason, Basic Instinct did not get the same change. Like you said, though, soloing dungeons is pretty easy. Along with Mortal Flame and Breath of Magic, Goblin Punch makes bosses faster since Basic Instinct removes the Mighty Guard damage penalty, so you have a new instant 640-potency spell.

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Originally Posted by Nighthawky2010

That is also my main issue with BLU. When it was first introduced, I was at fan fest, I was excited about it until the very next day at the live letter when they announce that you couldn't use BLU in squadrons or PotD. Even now, I feel SE seriously missed the mark by not allowing BLU into deep dungeons, Ereka, or go into dungeons with squadrons/trusts/duty supports.

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Blue should be able to do ultimates and deep dungeon, with unique titles and it's own weapons for doing so

Got the new achievement from carnivale and have only a handful of spells to get still. I was looking forward to being able to solo the ShB treasure maps and the new tools BLU has gotten are going to make that considerably easier then I was expecting.

Never really had much interest in the savage achievements save for the ARR/HW ones that award the morbol.

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Originally Posted by JamieRose

Getting constantly OHKO'd and having to take it from the top is neither fun nor fair.

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Unfortunately, that's basically XIV's design philosophy in general when it comes to "hard" content.

BLU at least just boils down to "bring this skill to not die" with little in the way of an execution barrier outside of the boss fights like Gogo and Goldor.

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Originally Posted by JamieRose

Getting constantly OHKO'd and having to take it from the top is neither fun nor fair.

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definitely. i did level 29 ...THE DIRTY ROTTEN whatever the name is...like 30 times before I beat it... that was neither fun nor fair...but definitely FUSTRATING.

I leveled to 80 and got my umbrella. : D

It's a shame that we can't use Basic Instinct to tackle the weekly log objectives solo, because you only get credit with a full party. I mean, right now there's a lot of people in the party finder, but as time goes by that number will dwindle.

Other than that, I really liked the update. The storyline is pretty basic, but enjoyable regardless and the new spells are cool. I was looking forward to something replacing Moon Flute for dpsers, because I can't believe they consider spending whole 15 seconds doing nothing but running a good design.

Got to 80 on BLU done the Masked Carnival mission and then was very sad. How can they make such a good boss for Blue Mage but actual dungeon and raid bosses are absolute Junk Synchron., it had great layered mechanics, dps checks and forces players to use what they have learned to clear it. This is what dungeon bosses should be like.

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Originally Posted by Duskane

you can for sure solo most 80 dungeons with ease
Ultra vibration makes adds a breeze
missle obliterates most first and second bosses
I'd say berserker would be tough out of the final dungeon bosses but rest should be ez

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Biggest problem with berserker is his stack marker you have to take solo, towards the end of the fight he starts to spam if fairly frequently. Diamondback makes the damage negligible but the mp drain from having to use diamondback so often means you’ll start to run out if you don’t kill him fast enough. Other than that he’s actually really simple, after he’s done with the two wild rages he just loops AoE, line AoE > stack marker.

Also just managed to solo phase one of the ruby weapon for ruby dynamics!

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2QOpsHmp8us

I was kind of worried about the dps check for the final optimised ultima but as long as you just let your big hitter spells come off CD before you push him into that phase you can clear it pretty comfortably. Shame that the spell itself looks like junk… I’m assuming it’s going to be used for some carnivale gimmick.

BLU is easily my favorite job, and this patch has been amazing for it.
Stage 32 was fun and challenging, and now we can PUNCH MONSTERS IN THE FACE

Maybe it is just me, but I really dislike the masked carnivale, because everytime I die, I'm thrown out of the instance, instead of the encounter just resetting. Such a minor issue, but having to slowly queue back in annoys me so much, that I stopped doing the carnivale entirely, except for whatever is mandatory for story progression >.<. It completely kills my interest for figuring things out for myself or practicing them.

This is my small little help for someone trying to get to 70 to 80 solo. I went and got open world spells and hit 71, you might not. Then I went to Tempest. With Chocobo out I sardined the leeches and fed them to the monsters. If you feed one of them three run like crazy they instant kill if get a hit off. I was able to chain 11 a few times. But generally it was 6. It took me just over 60 mins with food and all xp buffs. You could stop and do the Blue quests when you hit certain levels they have no fights till 80.

And even without that or other 'fast leveling tricks' it's still really fast. Took me around 3h of just killing mobs at my level and that just randomly running through the zones, without any planned route.
- Grab 3 or 4 mobs and Ram's Voice + Ultravibration
- When above is on cooldown, just run spamming Missile 2x + some fast cast actions takes around 10s every mob if both missiles hit

Couldn’t solo Titania, I managed to get to her add phase but then I have to kill all 3 of them while keeping myself alive (while one of them is using a tank buster) and doing enough damage fast enough to stop her gauge filling. If not for the gauge I could just focus on survival while my DoTs do the work, but as it is that add phase is a stumbling block.

Funny that such an early game boss is not doable yet an endgame boss like ruby weapon is…

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=mnxSsTUh7jo

Managed vauthry. I had a lot of echo for second phase, but that was just built up from my practice attempts and I didn’t want to do phase 1 again. It would have been plausibly doable with no echo as long as you really kept on top of mp management and fairly easily doable after 10% echo.

Might give Titania another attempt maybe with some echo built up the add phase could be manageable.

I paid a guy 50K for 30 minutes of his time as I went to Camp Bluefog and tossed fish at Bombs and then they one shotted the bomb. Got to 50, collected a few spells, and then I blew myself up in town once for funzies.

Not really touched it since.

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Originally Posted by Cabalabob

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=mnxSsTUh7jo

Managed vauthry. I had a lot of echo for second phase, but that was just built up from my practice attempts and I didn’t want to do phase 1 again. It would have been plausibly doable with no echo as long as you really kept on top of mp management and fairly easily doable after 10% echo.

Might give Titania another attempt maybe with some echo built up the add phase could be manageable.

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I feel it should be doable with echo. I soloed tsukuyomi with 3 stacks of echo. Echo really helped with meeting dps check during ads.

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Originally Posted by Eastwall

I feel it should be doable with echo. I soloed tsukuyomi with 3 stacks of echo. Echo really helped with meeting dps check during ads.

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I did it with 50% echo, but even then it was pretty rough.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=jAzEVEDXBog

And that’s it! I officially soloed every spell this patch synced! It would probably have been easier to just go with a party but I enjoyed the challenge and think I more than showed that BLU can handle itself in current level content.