Blm nuking resists

[Caspian]

The other night I was partying with a lvl 21/22 blm in qufim. We were killing clippers. He was a blm subbing smn and had 41 int after gear. He said his elemental skill was maxed and was casting some blizz's (he said thats what they were weak to). He kept commenting on how many resists he was getting and the one I noticed was a blizzard that hit for only 20. That was the only one I really noticed, but he said thats how they had all been. I blv the day was either iceday or lightday (I didnt check it for sure, just noticed the white circle by the time.) My question is: Is this normal for a blm at his lvl? 41 int at lvl 21 seems awfully high to be getting so many resists. In no way am I trying to turn this into a who's better forum, but as a rng with decent gear i was hitting for around 40 each shot. It seems like we should have atleast been hitting for much closer to the same dmg, with crabs being resistant to physical atk's.
Im really just curious if that was normal since he seemed to be pretty knowledgable about what he was doing and all.

Thanks for your replies in advance.

[Scatman]

Crabs suck for BLMs when no one can dispel yet. Shell really shafts our spell damage.

[Rogan]

yeah some crabs do have very high resistance to spells, but normally I would expect a blizzard to do more than that cuz mine do around 60 and im still in valkurm =/

[Andry]

crabs suck even more for melees.

crabs have inherent melee damage down

[Yuanlung]

There are actually 2 different things that could be happening here.

BLM nukes can be resisted, this can go from doing 90% of the spell damage all the way down to 0. The strong elements to the mob are less likely to be resisted.

Crabs have the ability to cast shell on themselves. If this is not dispelled, spell damages goes down to half.


He could be getting either, or both of these.


However, at that level, even a naked BLM with just the minimum +INT wand shouldn't be resisted much. Crabs aren't perticular strong to magic, even the lv 55~60 crabs I fight now don't resist much. I'd say he was probably just losing 50% damage from the shell most of the time.


BTW, like most water based creatures, crabs is weak to ice and thunder.

[Caspian]

Awesome, thanks.

[riceburner4540]

20 damage on a blizzard spell vs crabs sounds about right. at that level, an 80 damage blizzard is normal...if the crab had shell up (usually does ) then it would be halved and if he was resisted, halved again for 1/4th normal damage. if you nuke with elements a mob is weak to, you're guaranteed half damage (barring shell effects).

[leii]

wierd lol my rdm was doing 40dmg fires to them. like 70% of the time. was level 20 or 21 with 2 eremites and a +3int/mnd wand. and melon pie.

at lower levels more int seems to help alot. the spells have alot higher chance of not get resisted.

[mdn]

wait until you get a party in the upper 50s that wants to party in delkfutt's and pull pots. have fun playing whm and pushing your stun macro

[Sands]

Interesting, I had a similar issue fighting pugils in the dunes last night. I am a 18 BLM and sometimes I would do almost 60dmg per cast and others as low as 2 dmg.

I was switching between fire and aero.

[riceburner4540]

60 damage = unresisted, 2 damage = fully (1/10th) resisted

[WishMaster3K]

Yeah, i noticed in the dunes when raising my BLM, i was doing ass damage, and it was upseting. Lizzards being raped with Aero or Water, minimal damage. I ate an Apple pie and started owning tho.

Not sure, but as a Taru, with 2 Ermemites and a Willow, I was pretty pissed that my spells were pretty "meh". Maybe i wasnt looking at my damage compared to the melee, but my damage compared to the hume BLM with the supremely ill ass gear. (had more MP and power than me, and i was pissed.... until I ate an Apple Pie like he did and started owning again.)

Anyway, this brought up another question of mine, even for Taru's, are things such as Astral Rings necessary?