Subjobs

[Karinya]

Re: Subjobs

PLD/BUM for the win. Spike Flail to hold hate, and Scissor Guard and Rhino Guard to reduce damage. Probably just a dream though.

PLDs will still be forced to sub WAR.

And if BUMs have MP, they will be forced to sub WHM. WILL. Self Destruct will probably cost you exp too. -_-;

Yeah, I'm sure Spike Flail will be learnable at level 37 or below. <.< And that a PLD has the MP pool to spam it, too. Provoke doesn't cost MP, which is one of its main advantages.

WAR/BLU with scissor guard, rhino guard (or sigh, it's much stronger), and magic barrier and arrow shield, does have potential though.

BLU won't necessarily be forced to sub WHM, if they have good healing abilities of their own (not on a 1 minute timer like Spring Water). Quina made an ok healer just spamming White Wind, IIRC, except for really hard bosses. Don't remember if I ever tried BLU main healers in FFV or FFTA... but even if they aren't good enough to make a main healer, if they have some emergency healing, they won't have to sub WHM if other subs give them more benefit. Thousand Needles + Conserve MP (|Yes, please.|)

[Glued]

Re: Subjobs

ok heres what i think...

blue mage does infact cast based around TP most of its spells require TP to land high damage or make a poison additonal effect stick for any length of time so it leads me to beleive that you will require a good TP gaining job such as ninja. Now when selecting a ninja subjob you will undoubtedly lose the MP boost subbing whm or blm will give but thats easily replaced by a few rings or earings and even BLU spells themselves such as queasyshroom which adds 5MP to your pool. Subbing NIN for TP gain isnt worthwhile until lvl 20 when you gain the dual weild ability but afterwards its all gravy...

now on another note the BLU spells are also affected by MND/INT/and CHR which in most cases you would have to make a selection of BLM or WHM and choose spells to use ex. Healing breeze boosted by MND also you can use the +CHR equipment that isnt there for BLU yet to make your spells hit more accuratley...

and lastly move over RDM/NIN your godly solo days are over...

BLU and RDM go together like liver and onions, peas and carrots, big macs and fries (insert other cliche here) now you have a supreme god to solo your worst nightmares with. First off you have the RDM stats in MND/INT to help most of your BLU spells so you dont have to worry about that also you gain access to the staves at 51 and all the AF equipment your RDM works so hard to get (none there for blue yet come on SE whats takining you) you also have a powerfull arsenal of RDM buffs at your disposal (refresh/phlanx/stoneskin) which fit mighty well with your BLU buffs from early on (Cocoon/Metalic body(same effect as stoneskin) and of course the key component to my little god Protect IV.
So you want to solo some tough NM's
set up your RDM/BLU with all his/her AF equipment and some staves and give yourself cocoon/phlanx/stoneskin(or metallic body if your like me) and of course protect 4 now sit back and watch your defence multiply by nearly 200% whats that you see yes its 800-900 defense bring it on <t>. you are now nearly invinsible cast refresh and march right up to that nasty NM and stick your EN- sword in him while spaming you arsenal of level three BLM and/or BLU Spells. not done yet well thats ok did you forget your special convert...so you ran out of MP almost stoneskins gone well toss it up and convert hit yourself with a high cure or healing breeze for 200hp+ thanks to you MND boost and go back to work... now wipe your sword of and teabag that nasty NM and tell them Glued sent you...

what i guess im trying to say is there is no wrong or right sub job but for real fun go with RDM/BLU not only can you steal the show yourself youll be good in a PT as a main healer a big AOE spell not a problem spam some healing breeze for 200+ HP to all good by curaga hello paradise

now my beloved RDM has a real subjob other than those labled ones people throw at us. next time i hear you have to be a smn or whm or blm im teabaging vanadiel 1000 times

[Araius]

Re: Subjobs

RDM/BLU is pretty nasty solo. Cocoon + Phalanx is indeed a lethal combination. Being able to use Vorpal Blade with /BLU helps out quite a bit as well.

I was soloing EP-DC raptors in Terrigan with it easier than I've ever soloed anything as RDM/NIN. Had Auto-Regen and Lizard Killer traits active, as well as Wild Oats and Cocoon equipped. It was pretty lethal :D However soloing difficult NM's might be a little rough. I suppose with some +defense food and a good defensive gear setup it might work, but as subbing jobs to RDM always is, it would be situational. It would be wiser to sub BLU against a difficult mob that hits fast but not particularly hard; it would be better to sub NIN against one that hits slow but much harder.

I haven't tried it out in a party, but being able to use Healing Breeze does sound interesting, it is more MP-efficient than Curaga by a long shot. I'm not sure I would want to use it too often in a party, losing quite a few good spells from another sub, but it's definitely a viable option.

One thing to note though is that TP does not effect BLU spells unless you have Chain Affinity active, which you don't get until level 40.

In other news this is like, the biggest bump of a thread I've ever seen @_@

[Icemage]

Re: Subjobs

ok heres what i think...

Please do not necro-post. This thread was dead 6 months ago, and was discussed long before ToAU was released or any information was known about the blue mage job.

CLOSED.


Icemage