BLM

[Neimara]

Arcanist definitely seems like the organic sub-class for BLM.

Side question: I have read about the preferred stat allocations for our job, but has there been a priority list created? Something with bare minimums recommended, or am I reaching too far - too soon?

[Sandkat]

It's not optimized with way. You lost 2.5 sec (GCD after transpose) and you lost the "reduce Blizzard cost" because unlike you said it in the first msg, you only get the reduced cost if you cast a spell on the opposite buff. Casting blizzard 3 on Umbral 1-3 wont reduce anything.

Again, no. It's 10000000 times better to NEVER count on it. Get a gear with enough acc all the time.

On every BLM discussion on EVERY forum that I have found and from actual play, Transpose is better to go from Astral to Umbral. I wish I had P4 tooltips available to link to this post, but I dont.
If it turns out to be 2 dps better to do B3 than Transpose, Ill come back and change it.

Sometimes, you just cant get 100% acc. Its as simple as that. Unless you are in full on BiS gear or gear STRICTLY for ACC, you are not going to have exactly 100% hit. If you're doing dungeons, whether leveling or end game, or just farming and you are getting more resists than you'd like.. Grab it, use it, and move on.

[Spythe]

So looks like ACN is definitely one of the sub requirements. There is a third requirement (Archer) well? Could someone please verify this? Thank you for helping a newbie ^_^

I believe they mean you can just pull skills from the Archer class. Once you pick a job you can only pull from 2 other classes.

[Gael]

On every BLM discussion on EVERY forum that I have found, Transpose is better to go from Astral to Umbral. I wish I had P4 tooltips available to link to this post, but I dont.
If it turns out to be 2 dps better to do B3 than Transpose, Ill come back and change it.

Well i saw the topics too and you always had someone (who was not me lol) to reply what i said (at least on the beta forum and reddit). Anyway I tested both way (because it was kinda strange to me that someone talk about transpose after blizzard 3) on the dummy close to gridania during 10 min with a parser (FFXIV-APP) and "my" (not mine but you understand me) method was better. I didnt save the result but i will do it saturday if my FC gives me enough time to do it (with a video if you want to see that i didnt cheat)

[Sandkat]

Well i saw the topics too and you always had someone (who was not me lol) to reply what i said (at least on the beta forum and reddit). Anyway I tested both way (because it was kinda strange to me that someone talk about transpose after blizzard 3) on the dummy close to gridania during 10 min with a parser (FFXIV-APP) and "my" (not mine but you understand me) method was better. I didnt save the result but i will do it saturday if my FC gives me enough time to do it (with a video if you want to see that i didnt cheat)

Well we'll get at it on Saturday then We'll get to testing and get the right way up.

Thanks for the mention of that FFXIV-APP. Downloading that now.

[Madrone]

Most likely needed to unlock BLM job: ACN 15
BLM can cross class skills from ACN & ARC

[Torian]

((Disclaimer: I played in 1.0 beta and 1.0 release, but not in the last two years, so this is basically an entirely new game for me))


What about Blood for Blood (LNC 34) and Internal Release (PGL 12), which both state they have affinity with THM/BLM? That's another 20% damage AND crit....

Then maybe Bloodbath (MRD 8) for an "oh sh*t" heal/damage turnaround. Or am I missing something here that makes these seemingly obvious choices flawed?

[Sagacyte]

First of all, thanks for the guide!

Glad to know ACN is the second class required for BLM. I was under the impression that the second class was PUG in 1.0, and that honestly made no sense

Really looking forward to the high level spells, rotations, etc. As a former WoW rogue - a class with a lot of theorycrafters - I'm excited to begin as a THM/BLM in ARR and eventually study the class to be better!

[Torian]

If you can only pull from two classes for additional abilities... Lancer and Archer seem to be where it's at... combining their abilities gives you 40% extra damage (Blood for Blood and Raging strikes, respectively ((if they stack)), on a three minute cool down and an emnity mitigation ability (Quelling strikes) that will prevent the 25% extra damage taken from "Blood for Blood" from making you a drooling puddle of arcane punching bag.

[Madrone]

((Disclaimer: I played in 1.0 beta and 1.0 release, but not in the last two years, so this is basically an entirely new game for me))


What about Blood for Blood (LNC 34) and Internal Release (PGL 12), which both state they have affinity with THM/BLM? That's another 20% damage AND crit....

Then maybe Bloodbath (MRD 8) for an "oh sh*t" heal/damage turnaround. Or am I missing something here that makes these seemingly obvious choices flawed?

Where are you seeing this? Those can be used by THM of course, but not BLM.