Get off the /mage bandwagon!

[Darkhound]

Re: Get off the /mage bandwagon!

Well, I guess it all pedends on what type of blue you want to be? I am just level 6 blue mage atm, and i play to level all night today. Some people say /WHM is a bad idea, well what if you do not SET your blue curing abilities and use the white mage ones? It is true, did some quick tests and Pollen cured me for 20 HP while cure 1 cured me for 16. I agree with Tazirai, these jobs seem to be Tier 2 where there possibilites are bigger.

At level 6 /whm seems useless for me atm, why use cure 1 if i have pollen? I have Dia and cure 1 ... how much mp will i loose if i sub nin or war? Does anyone know. I am a hume and I have 2 merit uprades in magic, these of course wont kick in untill im 10 and 20. I have metallic body but I am unable to use it until level 8, how good is it?

Tonight I will try blue/war and see how it goes....
I will even try blue/smn to see the mp boost but i dont hink the MP boost and autorefresh will be enough justification to sub summoner.

I dont know how good SAM or THF etc will be... i dont plan on leveling those jobs to 37. I have my ninja on 37, my whm on 37, my blm on 37 and my war on 37 so those are he subs i will try on my blue mage career.

My 2 cents...

[elyssa]

Re: Get off the /mage bandwagon!

I've been subbing RDM for my BLU, wild oats and dia are pretty nasty when stacked on a monster. Though some of the enfeebles are redundant unless they stack..for example:

slow spell + the slow from sprout smack.

I was thinking that /BLM might be a good sub if MP Conserve works with BLU spells.

[711rocks]

Re: Get off the /mage bandwagon!

The other day I leveled war with a blu/nin in the party. (35ish)
All I have to say is: She was the shit. She owned the thing and was able to use utsu to stay alive whenever she needed to.

[forster]

Re: Get off the /mage bandwagon!

Its funny what the internet throws up, here we have a thread downing /mage, over on alla there are threads downing /nin.

I played /nin last night and as 711rocks says, it really was the shit, and a real fun way to play.

Im really disappointed that people seem to take the view as to telling others how to play the game - I certainly know that if I was /rdm last night (what I usually am) then the party wouldnt have been anywhere near as fun, and we wouldnt have progressed as quickly as we did.

Play the game how you want to play it - dont let others pressure you into their way of playing, its not worth it.

[elyssa]

Re: Get off the /mage bandwagon!

Question to the people subbing /Nin..

Do you find that you have enough MP to use your blue magic spells etc or is it like omg I wish I had more MP? I know that BLU magic bursting is dependant on MP and TP so to make the most of it you have to be meleeing as well.

Also I know now you can make up for not having abilities from certain subs by equipping certain blue magic skills.

I'm just trying to think of how to be the most effective BLU possible, because I'm planning on lvling the job to 75 just very slowly

[Darkhound]

Re: Get off the /mage bandwagon!

Well, here is a few of my personal comments hope it helps! Note that I am just level 8 so my conclusions or ideas can be biased or mistaken but here goes anyway!

I first subbed WHM and notice that obviously my pollen is more powerful and yes... pollen and cure and redundant.... shall i want to drop pollen and stick to cure? I do now know if how stronger pollen gets compared to cure 1 in the long run so i will have to test that.

Is it worth to sub whm and not set all the healing blue magic? Possibly, i will definatley try that.

I then subbed war and i had 10 mp less and my pollen was less powerful, it worked pretty well and i am liking it so far. I will sub ninja tonight and see how that goes.

I have never played or even leveld RDM, and i probably never will, so i am not sure if blu is similar to rdm as in jack of all trades.... but im guessing blu will melee alot and cast magic at the same time!

[Khidir]

Re: Get off the /mage bandwagon!

I think people in the game aren't used to jobs that can sub more than one job so it makes people uneasy.

There is no bandwagon for blu yet so enjoy w/e to your liking. There already seem to be many effective combos

whats wrong with diversity?

[Darkhound]

Re: Get off the /mage bandwagon!

I agree, I think of the the biggest mistakes we have ALL made in FFXI is to "enslave" certain jobs to subing certain jobs. SMN must sub WHM, war MUST sub nin etc. Not that that is mandatory but certain combos have become standard. I truly think that SE made thi jobs more versatile to teach us that things can work with different sub jobs. This is veyr good imo because you get to experience a job from different angles!

my 2 cents