message from a player to part of the community about jobs

[Tsilyi]

The reason you want to get it in your head to blow all your mp in fire is because later on you will have more than one stack of astral fire which will increase your damage with fire spells even more, and the more you transpose or switch to blizzard the more times you have to build up your stacks, especially at lower levels, which will mean you are doing less damage more often than you could be!

[Nephisto]

I'm playing a BLM and this is my main job. In fact, I don't have any other job. I don't consider myself a hardcore gamer, but I want to play well the only job I play, so I read about it to know how to be good enough to never be kick out of a dungeon or a trial. And it never happened. And nobody told me how to play my BLM. Right now, I'm learning the level 60 rotation. I don't really like the new mecanics at first (all the timer stuff), but now it's not so bad. I practiced in Fate against big sponge enemies in crystal farming party. If you don't want to be kick, you don't have the choice to be an enough good DPS, and to be a good BLM (or any other job), well, you know, you need to learn how to play it well. Listen Astral145, he gave good advises. I took in note his level 60 rotation

[randysquirrel]

Quite agree OP. My playstyle is to RP and pretend I am a secret spy going into dungeons. I sneak about and don't attack anything as my character is a pacifist. Tired of being kicked out of dungeons by those ego elitists

[Choko_TS]

Quite agree OP. My playstyle is to RP and pretend I am a secret spy going into dungeons. I sneak about and don't attack anything as my character is a pacifist. Tired of being kicked out of dungeons by those ego elitists

u'r clearly in the wrong game lol, try metal gear online

[WeekendSoja]

Quite agree OP. My playstyle is to RP and pretend I am a secret spy going into dungeons. I sneak about and don't attack anything as my character is a pacifist. Tired of being kicked out of dungeons by those ego elitists

Holy sarcasm Batman! Get this gentleman a slapstick for all the misinterpreters! And a bag of popcorn for those who do not have the experience of replying to sarcasm in written form!

[FunkyBunch]

He hasn't reached end game yet. His highest character is 54.
Though he has an impressive amount of characters around 30.

He also hasn't had any responses to any of his previous posts. So this looks like attention grabbing/troll bait.
It's also possible, he's just legitimately bad. I was bad too for a while. If you don't read the tooltips you don't realize things like Astral Fire causes bonus damage and Astral Ice increases MP regen. Until you understand the timing and why it's important it's tough to understand why to do things.

When I first hit 60, I was basically alternating B4 and F4 to keep Enochian up.
Now my damage is close to optimal (I can get 5 and sometimes 6 F4's off on my opener)

[Ashbury]

Last night we had a thaumaturge on our Void Ark run. When questioned about the lack of soul stone, she said she was 'already set on (her) way.' We helpfully set her on the way of a hopefully acceptable group by kicking her after the first boss.

[FunkyBunch]

Last night we had a thaumaturge on our Void Ark run. When questioned about the lack of soul stone, she said she was 'already set on (her) way.' We helpfully set her on the way of a hopefully acceptable group by kicking her after the first boss.

I had an ARC same thing. Because he wanted more cross class ability choice =/
After he failed at doing DPS, he agreed to get his Specialty.

[ChameleonMS]

OP, I think I was around level 28 or so before I understood what Transpose did and thus how to THM/BLM effectively. Before that, I was an Ice Mage because I could always cast Ice. Whenever I used fire, ran out of MP and had to wait for it to regenerate, at which point Astral Fire would wear off and I would have start all over again. Why??? because I did not understand what Umbral Ice did and thus, why Transpose was an essential ability.

For the members here which say read the desriptions: Um....

Blizzard:
Deals Ice damage with a potency of 180.
Additional Effect: Heavy +40%
Additional Effect: Grants Umbral Ice or remove Astral Fire duration 10s

Fire:
Deals Fire damage with a potency of 180.
Additional Effect: Grants Astral Fire or removes Umbral Ice duration 10s

Transpose:
Swaps Astral Fire with a Single Umbral Ice, or Umbral Ice with a single Astral Fire.

No where that I ever remember does the game tell you, Umbral Ice recharges your MP really fast.
Just by reading the descriptions and early game play (single player 99% of the time), it very easy to not Transpose effectively.


As for the kicking, if the other players provided in a reasonable / polite tone instruction on how to use Transpose correctly and you ignored them. I can understand why they kicked you.
I would have just judged how the dungeon progress was going and your responses to the advice.
1. stuff dying at a decent speed? Answer Yes.
2. Your response were also polite (regardless of answers)? Ok, just finish the duty.

[FunkyBunch]

I think there's an Active Help entry on Astral Fire and Umbral Ice. But if you turned them off like I do, you have to go back and read them ><