Blue mage "spells while leveling" guide?

[kaynide]

This came up a few weeks back; I'll copy/paste what I did there to give you a general progression plan.

Basically:

1) cheese level yourself ASAP and…
1b) Get open world spells as you can.
2) Start doing the masked carnival, some stages will require certain spells. Skip the ones you can’t do and work on getting spells needed.
3) Begin putting together a competent DPS build; sonic boom is a great single target, electro genesis is great AoE. The main reason for this is, if you do something at level (no unsync) you will 100% learn stuff…but in order to not be dead weight in a party, you need some basics.
4) Get combo spells in dungeons/open world.
4a) ram’s voice ->ultra vibration is insta death AoE with a cool down.
4b) whistle->tingle->triple trident powerful single target
5) Work on you oGCDs (mostly primals)

While doing all of that, also work on your healer set (Pom cure, gobskin is all you really need)

Eventually, you will have a basic core blue build that suits you and can do dungeons as any role (tank is not as effective with lower armor but it’s possible), but since you can save builds you can also make more specific ones for certain content.

Also, I see a lot of talk about massive final sting damage…I’ve tried it but haven’t been impressed by it yet. So if you see that and wonder “wtf am I doing wrong?” I also don’t know what’s going on there (probably my gear?)

Now, since you specifically did ask for leveling progression I assume you don't want to cheese-level: That way mostly matches the above, with a few variations:

1) You want to get a generic damaging spell (Sonic boom is ideal). Acorn Bomb (Sleep mobs if needed) and White Wind (Expensive, but "fine" healing).
2) Open up a webpage listing all the spells for BLU, and actively hunt down ones you can get in the Open World.
3) Spam-kill mobs. I still recommend cheesing this... but if you REALLY don't want to, that's really all there is. Kill whatever you can and get new spells until 50.
4) Refer to above.