Hello,
I wanna start BLM to go with my WHM
- how would you recommend investing points?
- what cross abilities (pug and archer) are useful?
- any good practice/tips you have?
Thanks :)
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Hello,
I wanna start BLM to go with my WHM
- how would you recommend investing points?
- what cross abilities (pug and archer) are useful?
- any good practice/tips you have?
Thanks :)
Full int, and then piety is what I go for, you may want some bit to increase hp since we're weak noodles
Second wind to heal, quelling strike, chameleon, Featherfoot
And blow stuffs up :P. lightning main single damage dealer, fire is aoe, blizzard is for debuffs
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need a Lv 42 Archer technique? must be a joke lol I was sooooo not interested by Archer (maybe just for Bard skills) and now need to level up 42 to be a nice BLM? :( not nice SE!
Need no, but you will be gimping damage so you don't pull hate
what about decoy?the description seems like its a pretty nice skill
What about gear? Its been a few patches since I have seen any serous discussion on BLM/THM gear. I am currently working on trying to maximize damage for garuda so anything someone could recommend outside of a garuda weapon would be very helpful to me.
Unless you really need mostly AoE damage, the strategy is still to stack INT then just enough m.acc to not miss, perhaps getting the m.acc via food if you really want to maximize INT. You get most of your damage through Thundara combos.
Something like two zircon rings, felt hat of INT with double III or IV INT meld, lightning brand with double INT meld would be a good core.
I have been told a lot of different numbers to shoot for with regards to unbuffed macc. what would you recommend?
Eh. I'm no expert tbh. I sit at 478 and am satisfied with my hit rate, even on Ifrit. I haven't been using food, so if you use food you can drop that down by 30 or so. In my case that'd be replacing my Coral Rings with Zircon Rings + Button Mushroom Saute or Buttons-in-a-Blanket.
Can anyone else confirm those numbers? Ifrit seems like he is a lot easier to hit than Garuda.
i can hit ifrit with 430-435 m.acc without food
This is just what i use.
I found the magic number to be 444 m.acc unbuffed. I use m.atk food on Ifrit and m.acc food on Garuda. This has served me well but IMO there is no reason to over stack M.acc.
For Gear i wear;
Double Meld INT Felt Hat / Double Meld Int Electrum Scepter (If the Int value from the materia doesn't add up over 30 then its not a good double meld IMO don't settle for less)
Double Meld -Emnity Belt (doesn't really matter what belt they all suck)
Double Meld Piety Felt Bliaud (Their is debate if Sleep is affected by this stat, but i figured why not try)
Double Meld Int/Mnd Woolen Tights ( aim for +12 or higher on each )
Double Meld M.atk Mahogany Pattens (Haven't bought yet, i won't settle for less than +20 m.atk)
+1 Zircon Rings / +1 Zircon Bracelets / + Spinel Choker / Mage Earrings
Aubriest's Allegory Shield
AF BLM GLoves
Now this is my starting point. This has giving me 444 m.acc / 360+INT / 500+ m.atk ... from here i will start replacing these pieces with triple melds.
Also for my baseline stats i stacked full INT / full MND. Why because you squeeze out 5.5 m.acc from that 22 MND and i can meld extra Piety to my chest. As for HP. You are a BLM, i haven't had a problem with my HP levels yet, don't get hit. Use Sanguire Rite to mitigate dmg when you do have to get hit. Also Nercogensis/second wind to get it back up quickly as well.
If you really are worried about M.acc still. I carry 2 coral rings +1 just in case.
You are not getting those numbers in all three categories at one time. Sure maxing each one out with different gear, but short of triple melding and even then its a stretch to reach that 'starting point'. A full double meld INT set (Wep/Hat/Legs) with rings just breaks 400 INT so not sure how you are getting 560.
I'd Seriously love to see the gear of a BLM who can hit 500+int. With a full double meld set you are looking at 400ish INT.
Anyway the highest evasive mob in game right now is Garuda which you will need 530 macc buffed to get close to 0 resist.
For Ifrit/Chimera you will need around 470.
For gear on garuda
Double meld hat: 35int 7matk
Garuda van: 30int 25macc
Militia robe: 15int
Melded Woolen tights: 14int
AF boots: 9int
Mage's halfgloves: 9matk 9macc
Mage's ropebelt 2macc
x2 int rings/int braclet/mage's earring/mages choker- 40int 5matk 15macc
Unbuffed this gives me 399int 479matk 456 macc. buffed I have 406int 527macc and 490matk.
Edit: To hit 500int you would need Triple melds in hat/weapon/legs.
meant legs,not boots.kept forgetting legs has less int from materia.still would get 16 int with max
it was only a theoretical 500 int set