How to gear BLM best

[Luxanna]

w/o magic accuracy -
you'll get resisted - and do less then half the damage for twice as long of a wait.
w/o potency - your thunder and thudaga will be weaker.
w/o int- your thundara will be weaker.

now ask yourself this question what do you prefer?

Thunder and Thundara depends on INT
Thundaga and everything else depends on Magic Potency

[Asiaine]

Thunder and Thundara depends on INT
Thundaga and everything else depends on Magic Potency

Thunder damage is based on a combination of Magic Attack Potency and Intelligence, with Magic Attack Potency being the major contributor (on a 1 to 1 comparisson). I.e.: 15 Magic Attack Potency did more to increase damage than 15 Intelligence.

I have done some research into this but I am not publishing any results as I expect it all to change at 2.0 where I will re-investigate.

Gukie is most closest with his summary.


Back on topic: I do not know of any guide, and the optimal outfit may vary depending on your grand company and if you wish to get Darklight gear or not. I recommend you find which skill/stat you want to focus on and then research what is best available to fulfill that need.

My biggest recommendation right now is to NOT invest heavily into weapons: New ones come out too quickly to warrant the investment (unless you are overflowing with hundreds of millions of gil and have absolutely nothing else to do with it).