Stardust Rod

Stardust Rod
Macro Command
/equip mh "Stardust Rod"

Two-Handed Thaumaturge's Arm (Main Hand)

Requires: BLM
Required Level: 50
Damage: 74 (Blunt: 100%)
Delay: 4.3s (Attacks: 1)
DPS: 17.2
Intelligence: +45
Attack Magic Potency: +30 Enfeebling Magic Potency: +20
Magic Crit Rate: +35
Increases Flare damage over time
Condition Repair Materials Repair Class Not Meldable
146400 / 146400 Grade 5 Dark Matter Goldsmith (40) Not Convertible

Please, is there anyway that the Enfeebling Magic can be replaced with Magic Accuracy? At first I thought this is an amazing weapon, until a linkshell mate brought it to my attention that there was no magic accuracy was on it.

Seriously enfeebling magic skill has to be the most useless stat in the entire game, and it greatly diminishes this staff's usefulness, compared to weapons that have magic accuracy that you need to double/triple meld Intelligences Materia to, which could significantly be much easier to than to get this staff.

Please, can it be changed?

Enfeebling Magic helps:


Flare's DoT to land
Blizzard's chance to inflict Heavy
Thundara's chance to inflict Stun
Blizzara's chance to inflict Bind


But yeah, it's totally useless.

Yeah trying doing them more than 2 times on mobs without killing them in mere seconds, or see if they work on bosses. Cause they don't.

It doesn't matter how much you stack of it either.

One you'll gimp your overall damage.

Two, the first cast is the only effective cast, all others after the first are less effective.

Sleepga is the only worthwhile enfeeble and after 2 casts, mobs will become immune.

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Originally Posted by Kinseykinz

Enfeebling Magic helps:

Sleep and Sleepga to stick
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False. This is dependent on magic accuracy.

Enfeebling potency does however affect the chances of other added effects, like those you listed, and may affect their duration and/or potency, as you correctly mentioned.

Enfeb affects everything that has a "chance to do _____". Sleep isn't affected by it because the sleep itself gets resisted, thus making it magic accuracy. It is true, the enfeb is mainly useful for the flair DoT, which by the way is pretty sick with the stardust rod.

To be honest, I think these weapons were balanced towards the 2.0 client. I'm mainly thinking this because they said stat stacking isn't going to be as useful as it is now in 2.0, so putting magic accuracy on a head piece may actually be better than putting int. Which is also another reason why I think the Darklight Cowl is currently junk.

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Originally Posted by Kinseykinz

Enfeebling Magic helps:


Flare's DoT to land
Blizzard's chance to inflict Heavy
Thundara's chance to inflict Stun
Blizzara's chance to inflict Bind


But yeah, it's totally useless.

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Realistically though, most of these enfeebles don't see a lot of practical application in current content. Flare is used primarily for trash mobs in areas such as AV and CC, in which the mobs die from the initial damage of flare, and not the DoT. You might use blizzard to inflict heavy on Miser, but a well geared party with 6 MNKs will burn Miser before it ever has a chance to move anyway, not to mention their ability to rotate stuns.

In all honesty, 20 points of enfeeb pot. translates to what exactly? I doubt it has a very large influence on the limited enfeebs currently present in the game. That is unless they place a larger emphasis on enfeebling magic for BLM post-ARR.

Broken down, Stardust vs. Van, you'd have to make up 25 points of M.Acc somewhere else (ring or head) with the Stardust for a gain of 15 INT, not worth it point for point imo. However, the Stardust does get +35 M.Crit rate, +50 conserve MP and +30 Attack Potency. You do get -30 enmity on the Van, but that really only translates to a 3% decrease in enmity/attack.

Stardust Rod by itself is BIS, but not by much. A tri-meld Electrum Sceptre (not as hard to do as some might believe) with 3x Tier III 15s won't beat, but will definitely be competitive with a Stardust Rod, plus you get a choice of shield. A Van even more-so. I'd like to see a skilled BLM parse a Garuda Van vs. Stardust Rod on someone like Garuda during nothing but the burn phase, same gear set up for both weapons. It may be significant, but I doubt it's a huge difference.

At the end of the day, looking at how much time and effort goes into getting a Relic weapon, I think I'd like a little more bang for my buck. Stardust is a good weapon, but not the most attractive out of the relics.

Just face it, its shit. Get the relic Axe, Bow, or Sword.

I don't intend to raise i disciple of War, they're all boring.

Could be worse!

http://img.bluegartr.com/wiki/thumb/...escription.png

LOL It could be worse I guess. Just wish there was finally a good Blm/Thm weapon.

One with stats in Int and Magic Acc/pot. You know things that effect our main source of damage. Not something that's hardly used.

The whole mixing with Damage/Enfeeble skills needs to stop, and same with gear for casters having 1 set that has both Healer stats and DD caster stats. Please Separate the two an make them have one set designed for each.

Build your gear around your relic. They're all BIS, deal with it.

Build your gear around the AF weapon, so build more enfeeble skills to get laughed at for giving up damage to do the enfeebles?

Or Give up Intelligence for magic accuracy unless I manage to get all triple melds or higher to make up the difference?

:/ I don't think there is ever gonna be a good weapon for black mage/Thaumaturge at this rate.

What the hell? Garuda and Relic weapon aren't good enough for you?

Get your head out of your ass and eat Magic Accuracy food and wear magic accuracy rings or a headpiece, Jesus.

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Originally Posted by Estellios

What the hell? Garuda and Relic weapon aren't good enough for you?

Get your head out of your ass and eat Magic Accuracy food and wear magic accuracy rings or a headpiece, Jesus.

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Would I be making this thread if the weapon was good enough?

I just want one good weapon. One that has a very High Int/Mag acc/Magic Pot. Do you think Darklight is the Best in slot gear for mages, cause it said it was the best gear in-game by rep so that's why it's apparently so hard to get. Yet that thing is absolutely terrible.

The intelligence on the Stardust rod is amazing, but what good is it, if you get resisted? I don't care about the flare, enhancement. Enfeeble skill is god damn worthless. Magic Crit is mehish, can be handy sometimes. But i would give up enfeeble skill and the flare enhancement in a heartbeat for 40+ Magic Accuracy.

Then that would be the best thing ever for black mage, you couldn't meld something better than that. That is the kind of weapon I want. If it's supposed to be the best, then it needs to be the best. It shouldn't be the best only cause of two useful stats that you could make something almost comparable to it. Especially if it takes that much effort to get.

The fact is that all relics are BIS. Deal with it.

Again, gear up AROUND your relic. IE: Double INT head and single M.acc for triple meld.

Mage's Choker instead of ele choker (add's to the crit build from relic) as well as 15macc.

Buttons in a blanket. +34macc.

Instead of melding shitpoop INT/PIE to legs, invest some gil and do INT/MND to get the extra M.acc

Conserve MP +50???

Step your game up man. Also, funny how you bash relic, but haven't even done a 17min run?

BEST IN SLOT, hands down. Get good.

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Originally Posted by XavierBlade

The fact is that all relics are BIS. Deal with it.

Again, gear up AROUND your relic. IE: Double INT head and single M.acc for triple meld.

Mage's Choker instead of ele choker (add's to the crit build from relic) as well as 15macc.

Buttons in a blanket. +34macc.

Instead of melding shitpoop INT/PIE to legs, invest some gil and do INT/MND to get the extra M.acc

Conserve MP +50???

Step your game up man. Also, funny how you bash relic, but haven't even done a 17min run?

BEST IN SLOT, hands down. Get good.

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I am not bashing it badly, I just think it could be better with another stat, besides a useless one like the flare/enfeeble stat. That is a waste and one other stat could have made it greatly better.

Xavier, I assure you I am making alot of effort to get double melds and and HQ jewelry.

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Originally Posted by Jinrya-Geki

I am not bashing it badly, I just think it could be better with another stat, besides a useless one like the flare/enfeeble stat. That is a waste and one other stat could have made it greatly better.

Xavier, I assure you I am making alot of effort to get double melds and and HQ jewelry.

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It's similar to the monk relic. It has mainly 1 really good stat and the rest are just a bonus (though the 5 refresh is pretty damn nice). However with the monk relic I'm forced to gear my monk around it to get enough acc. The monk, warrior and black mage relics are all quite demanding compared to the other four, however that doesn't mean that if you work on it the weapon won't do you any good. Only downside so far that I've seen towards my monk relic is that the lvl 63 H-1 is quite hard to fight since accuracy is highly mandatory against him.

By the way I wouldn't dismiss the flare dot increase that easily. The jump in damage/increased chance of landing can easily make your flare do an extra 200-250 damage per mob.

I think the issue is not "what's BIS", because that's obvious. What I had a hard time with was deciding which Relic to pursue, since you're going to put a LOT of time and effort into obtaining even one Relic. If I'm going to put that much effort into something, I want to get the one that gives me the highest return. Stardust Rod would be great, but I'll go for something else first. Even if BLM was my primary, I'd probably settle with my Garuda's Van for now.

Btw Dawiichan, I lol'd at your sig.

A little off topic. (I did'nt want to make a new thread)

I'm building a new gear set, in anticipation for my stardust rod. Currently my End Game stat's are:

397 int ~> 410 (w/ Stardust)
479 m.acc ~> 449 (w/ Stardust)
519 m.atk ~> ~523 (w/ Stardust)

I mainly like using m.atk food. With the stardust i will loose 30 m.acc, and gain 13 int.

Looking over things it looks like I will short on stat's somewhere, what do you think the best compromise is? Do you think it will be best using 2 x coral rings to make up the m.acc, change over to m.acc food, or make a new head item w/ 30+int, and 20+ m.acc?

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Originally Posted by JunkPunch

A little off topic. (I did'nt want to make a new thread)

I'm building a new gear set, in anticipation for my stardust rod. Currently my End Game stat's are:

397 int ~> 410 (w/ Stardust)
479 m.acc ~> 449 (w/ Stardust)
519 m.atk ~> ~523 (w/ Stardust)

I mainly like using m.atk food. With the stardust i will loose 30 m.acc, and gain 13 int.

Looking over things it looks like I will short on stat's somewhere, what do you think the best compromise is? Do you think it will be best using 2 x coral rings to make up the m.acc, change over to m.acc food, or make a new head item w/ 30+int, and 20+ m.acc?

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If you can meld Int and Mag acc into a head piece I would say go for it. If not, try food I say.

2x INT and 1x M.acc head is the best option. Also if you're from Uldah, look into using the GC Body/Feet.

I am not a fan of using coral rings, at all. Just my advice~

This is my build for NMs, i cant say i dont miss the m.acc on Garuda's Van ; ;
http://www.gwcdn.com/albums/images/5...1d3793a42f.jpg

What are Stardust BLMs' thoughts on magicrit build?

I am thinking of militia ringbands, militia tights, mage's choker and Ul'dahn officer's hat. All of these items are desirable on their own and together with relic add 140 crit rating. Add in militia duckbills for another +10, though I think there are better feet options.

the Stardust Rod is gonna rape in 2.0 once they actually make things work...and I also have a feeling that conserve mp will shine in PvP battles.

Actually reduce spell interruption should work better in pvp.

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Originally Posted by Chardrizard

This is my build for NMs, i cant say i dont miss the m.acc on Garuda's Van ; ;
http://www.gwcdn.com/albums/images/5...1d3793a42f.jpg

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http://i47.tinypic.com/15yykb6.jpg

this is an old topic but i didnt see anyone mention the fact that enfeebling mag pot may play a bigger role in 2.0. Yoshi said before that magic classes would have more spells in 2.0 and knows they need enfeebles for pvp. so instead of hoping they change the rod lets hope they change the game.