Thaumaturge Aetherial Manipulation

[Alkimi]

If you're on mouse/KB then I think they best way to use it would be with a <mo> macro. Gives you the freedom to move to any party member you want by just hovering your cursor over them. I use it frequently in every turn in final coil with the exception of 11.

[Skeith-Adeline]

I think it's extremely useful in coil, but even then, is really situational and I use it more along the lines of panic button.

[Aikaal]

There's certain situations that Aetherial is pretty good. The first one that cross my mind is fountains in T12. The way my group does it (We solo Warrior tank) Sch takes the first 2 stacks, I take the 2 others then Paladin takes the remaining.

If fountain is far from you, I Aetherial on my Scholar. I suaully use it during a proc to save time. Even if you are inside, the tether will stay to the person closest to the center. You move next to the target, not inside.

[Ooshima]

I don't think the skill have much use outside coil, but I think it has much use in coil itself.

I don't main a BLM but have played a little with it in FCoB, and I think it is rather useful. As a BLM you should cut down on movements which prevents you from casting, so AM is pretty much useful.

For T10, you can use it to teleport to stack for either tether or charge.

For T11, you can use it to teleport to the egg after both sphere and cube died. If you had a MNK, more than likely the MNK will shoulder tackle over to the egg and there you can abuse this by AM yourself to the MNK so you don't have to run over.

For T12, you can use it to teleport to the DPS party to stack for first blackfire since your starting cast is no where near the stacking point. I use it to move into fountains too since I don't like to stand near the fountain make it a clusterf**k where pinons fly around that area. When it is time to enter fountain, I just AM to the guy currently in the fountain and he moves out


I haven't played BLM in T13 yet, but I guess there are things you can do like using it to move back to the party after dealing with earthshakers, or teleporting to the center for megaflare stacking if someone is already there (healers maybe?)

[Malevicton]

Pretty much any time you ever need to move you should teleport instead if it's an option. The job thrives on minimizing movement and maintaining casting uptime. Aetherial Manipulation is one of the best tools with which to do that. It makes a bigger difference in coil, but there are times to use it beneficially on just about all content.

[SpookyGhost]

I use it to catch up to people when they run ahead of me.

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[PotatoTree]

It's also really really good in PvP when you have overextended a bit.

I wish it was more like the Ninja teleport though. And also on a shorter cooldown. It would be fun to jump around with it.

[randysquirrel]

I use it a lot in Mor Dhona, while we are running about waiting for last few places of PF to fill up

It does have some pretty decent uses in FCOB, but I find you have to have planned in advance when you'll be using it. I'm a lowly PS4 peasant, and targeting team members can be a bit of a pain, the time it takes you may well have just run most of the way anyway. Have your team laid out in a way that the person you'll be AMing to is only one "up" or "down" click away, or macro it

[MetaRed]

I use This ability all the time and it is really useful. Like others have said its best if you set up a macro so you can mouse over someone and use it or just got straight to a designated part member.

I have several macros for this depending on the situation. arterial manipulation can be used as a panic button, but I find it more useful to use to minimize my down time and get extra spells out that black mages who don't use The ability would not be able to cast.

A very basic example of this is staying out and getting a few extra fire spells in the Scylla fight in ST while everyone runs to the pads for daybreak, and then using arterial manipulation to stalk with your party right before the cast finishes.

You can also "cheat" in some of the gold saucer GATEs using it, if a party member has already made it to the goal and you have a clear line of sight to them you can teleport to them at the goal, which is kind of funny to do

[SunDriedRainbow]

For T10, you can use it to teleport to stack for either tether or charge.

For T11, you can use it to teleport to the egg after both sphere and cube died. If you had a MNK, more than likely the MNK will shoulder tackle over to the egg and there you can abuse this by AM yourself to the MNK so you don't have to run over.

I use AM after the charge, not before, to get out of the lightning floor ASAP.

Also, if you use it after finishing off the cube (#teamcube), just be careful you don't instagib yourself flying through Kaliya.