blm soloability

[nugzkraka]

Re: blm soloability

LOL!!!!!!!

Allright you silly people. BLM is one of the best solo jobs.

I am 75 BLM/RDM, I can solo KS30, NM's 80-85, exp 4k/hr, Limbus 1-14coins.

KS30 for gil

NM for gil, can kill lots of NM's as long as they can be sleep/gravity/bound... sleep isnt nessasary for some, like Aquarias who you cant sleep.

Exp for buffer or merit, can kill King Buffalo in the Range, or Phuabo in Sea. Its great exp and dont have to wait for stupid party.

Limbus for coin and dont have to wait for ally. BLM and NIN are the only two jobs
that I have seen solo limbus.

Solo'n BLM is sweet, and the downtime isnt bad at all.

Your BLM buddy,

NUGZ

[pearlsea]

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^maybe endgame blm isent that bad but i can bearly kill a EP without using most of my MP or having close spots and only getting 30 xp.

Maybe if i get blink/gravity/stoneskin/phlanix i can solo better but fornow it sucks.

[Khidir]

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I heard that blms are capable of soloing VT at 75 and my ls blm can ill ask him how and how much downtime unless you all know already ^^'

[Coinspinner]

Re: blm soloability

Downtime? As long as it takes to fill a whole bar of MP and recast any buffs you want. Kill time can be long depending on if (or how many times) you need to Sleep it and rest for MP in the middle of the fight.

[Jei]

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I've seen blm/rdm soloing KS30 scorpion before. Not something you can do with ordinary gear i think you need some seriously good gear.

[DigitalisAkujin]

Re: blm soloability

LOL!!!!!!!

Allright you silly people. BLM is one of the best solo jobs.

I am 75 BLM/RDM, I can solo KS30, NM's 80-85, exp 4k/hr, Limbus 1-14coins.

KS30 for gil

NM for gil, can kill lots of NM's as long as they can be sleep/gravity/bound... sleep isnt nessasary for some, like Aquarias who you cant sleep.

Exp for buffer or merit, can kill King Buffalo in the Range, or Phuabo in Sea. Its great exp and dont have to wait for stupid party.

Limbus for coin and dont have to wait for ally. BLM and NIN are the only two jobs
that I have seen solo limbus.

Solo'n BLM is sweet, and the downtime isnt bad at all.

Your BLM buddy,

NUGZ

yea but nugz you have an unussual amount of merits and your gear rivals only that of people like Nemesiss and Cherbr on our server.

[Tsama]

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yea jei I saw that video. It was pretty nice.

The debate over if blm can solo is based on two things one is it for XP and two what are they trying to solo.

A blm can solo very effecftively as everyone has said against elementals. We are also very good at worms. The rate of rest though is too high. I sadly enough have an entire set of fighting gear for my blm. I can get up to EM with the right stuff equiped and intelligent play I can however not do this for very as my MP is drained by my macro that auto-heals me. As far as all out ability to just solo most mobs average blms are put to bed fast.

There is only one fact that I believe about FFXI. A great player can make anything possible.

[Aeni]

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Provided that you have capped magic stats, BLM is not bad for soloing. I was able to solo a T crab once in Qufim recently with all the enfeebling sticking and bind+nuke work. -Ga is so incredibly powerful it isn't funny and can drop those crab's HP in a hurry.

However, I wouldn't recommend exp soloing, because the downtime is horrendous, unless you have refresh options available to you (Which kind of astounds me on how a 62 BLM could be raking 4-4.5K an hour when the mp pool doesn't refill that quickly...)

[Khidir]

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I thought since blms get clear mind quicker than the other mages as well as conserve mp it would mean they save/recover well, blms in my pts always have a lot if not a ton of mp.

I wish rdms had a bigger mp pool ; ; then again since we can solo ok maybe i'm being selfish

[Aeni]

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I thought since blms get clear mind quicker than the other mages as well as conserve mp it would mean they save/recover well, blms in my pts always have a lot if not a ton of mp.

I wish rdms had a bigger mp pool ; ; then again since we can solo ok maybe i'm being selfish

No, that's not the main reason why BLMs seem to have so much MP whenever you look down the party line of your bottom right hand screen. The real reason is that with higher tier spells, the more damaging they are and at the same time, the hate gained becomes greater. Of course, all this comes with a hefty mp price tag. Thus, efficient BLMs choose their nukes carefully, one that will give them the best results with minimal consequences. Plus, provided they are in a BLM-WHM-RDM core party, they have nothing to do *but* nuke, so they can rest in greater intervals than other mages (In other words, sit down to rest whenever the hell they feel like)

Even with clear mind and conserve mp, I don't notice a distinct advantage I have over a RDM/BLM or WHM/BLM. However, I do have the liberty to rest as often as I want unless the main healer can't cope with his/her job and I have to become secondary healer more often...

[DigitalisAkujin]

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Here's the problem with BLM soloing:
Enfeebling? Not a problem, 250 with AF1 Body and Tiara, 260 if you get pants and +7 enfeebling torque, +7 with Rank 7 Windurst Hands

Basically total you can get upto 274!!!!!!!!!! +3 even with enfeebling earring 277 as a BLM!

But anyway 251 is enough (I have a genie tiara).

Then you take into account my MP:

877 after I apply buffs (Phalanx, Stoneskin, and Blink) and then switch to nuking gear. My sitting gear gives almost 100 MP so heal to full, buff, then after I buff switch to nuking gear, still full MP. :-)

Now with 877 MP (one MP merit) I start nuking an IT, VT Buffalo in Ula. Range.

4-5 nukes = dead Buffalo but I can't do it back to back so in total these are the spells used:

4-5 Nukes of Blizzard IV, Thunder IV, and Fire IV, (among others)
Gravity
Sleep
Sleep II
Bind (maybe but not very usefull cuz it wears after nuked almost half the time)

So basically after all this stuff and recasting buffs occasionally BLMs get screwed because my entire MP goes to enfeebling and extra nuking.

So 5 minutes per mob from full MP to full MP (aka killing, then healing and being ready for another).

Now... if your a tarutaru u can do this in 3 nukes and if you have insane merits even a hume can go down to two but basically unless u can do Thunder IV and Blizzard IV back to back and kill it in two nukes your not gonna be able to solo effeciently.

[nugzkraka]

Re: blm soloability

Yes DigitalisAkujin is right, If you dont have merits or enfeb gear you will not be able to solo well.

Its all about not getting resisted on Grav/sleep.

Helps to have taru mp, but any race can solo.

[Nachtigal]

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I'm a hume and do just fine. ^ _^