Humes Best job for BLU

[Kyero Fox]

True or False? In my Opinion I find True because Humes are good at everything and not bad at anything which is good for Blue mages sense they depend on all Stats for Certain spells.

[Icemage]

Re: Humes Best job for BLU

I don't think any race is best at blue mage. It can be played many ways with many variations, and while humes are strictly average in most stats (other than CHR), that doesn't make them de facto better than any other race overall. It just depends on what you're trying to do and how you go about it.

I think it would be a more fair statement to say that, unlike most other jobs, Humes do not necessarily lose out compared to at least one other race when playing Blue Mage.


Icemage

[Raitox]

Re: Humes Best job for BLU

I like me Elvaan.... why, we might have lower INT yes, we might have lower MP yes, but our physical spells will hit harder than yours ever well. Ever. And I think thats better than just being.... "average"

[Mchenryz]

Re: Humes Best job for BLU

Im Hume blu mage and while i dont think they are the best race for blu i think its slightly stupid to say that an elvaans blu spells will always hit for more considering A. The person could be a higher level
B. You may need to equip mp gear so that you can cast enough spells and lose out on some str.
C. The other blu might have a whole lot more gil than you and more time to camp things and might have better equipment than you.

[Lionheart]

Re: Humes Best job for BLU

Im Hume blu mage and while i dont think they are the best race for blu i think its slightly stupid to say that an elvaans blu spells will always hit for more considering A. The person could be a higher level
B. You may need to equip mp gear so that you can cast enough spells and lose out on some str.
C. The other blu might have a whole lot more gil than you and more time to camp things and might have better equipment than you.

/agree

[VZX]

Re: Humes Best job for BLU

BLU is the first job I found that doesn't have specific stats to boost
STR is good for physical spells
INT is good for some magical spells
some magical spells also based on CHR
there are only 3 healing spells currently, but I guess MND count on how many HP you recovered by casting this spells (assuming that the ammount recovered is not capped yet)


some cases you rely heavily on MP and defense (solo)
some cases you rely on attack/accuracy (PT)

[Kyero Fox]

Re: Humes Best job for BLU

Im Hume blu mage and while i dont think they are the best race for blu i think its slightly stupid to say that an elvaans blu spells will always hit for more considering A. The person could be a higher level
B. You may need to equip mp gear so that you can cast enough spells and lose out on some str.
C. The other blu might have a whole lot more gil than you and more time to camp things and might have better equipment than you.

I agree too later game it all depends on Equipment and other stuff, past lvl30 Race means jack shit except for MP and HP

last time someone said "You should have been a Elvaan Samurai insted of hume .. we hit harder" and I laughed and said this "that may be ... for now that is =\" then he didnt say a word after that.

[VZX]

Re: Humes Best job for BLU

I agree too later game it all depends on Equipment and other stuff, past lvl30 Race means jack shit except for MP and HP

not necessarily true to me...
Lv 30 ish maybe the period where every race get balanced, because they wear RSE

now if you're speaking 75. How many of those jobs wear RSE? I know for my RNG I only have 1 RSE equiped on certain occassion. For every other slots, there's always 1 item that's accepted as "the best choice" for certain condition, which is not RSE

[Minaku]

Re: Humes Best job for BLU

No, what he's saying is at level 75 equipment boosts your performance so much that the boosts from race are ridiculously small. The only real racial advantage is Galka's HP and Taru's MP. Everything else is negligible, and "best race" threads are silly.

[Icemage]

Re: Humes Best job for BLU

Stat differences between races makes less and less overall difference as you rise in level, except for the afore-mentioned HP/MP.

Sure, there's something like 9 points of Strength difference between Elvaan and Tarutaru at 75, but even that amount of difference doesn't truly make much difference in overall effectiveness. The Tarutaru will deal a bit less damage, sure, but not cripplingly so - certainly with equivalently good gear at 75, the difference in terms of percent damage dealt is very low between races, whether we're talking about melee or magic.


Icemage

[raidenn]

Re: Humes Best job for BLU

Race doesnt matter.

I xped in 2 parties with BLUs yesterday.
One was taru taru. He can stun goblin bombs most of the time. Amazing too since he just weaves in and out of all of us. You can really say he knows his job extremely well. Bibiki Bay goblins can use bomb toss around 4x or more in one fight and he can manage to stun them without failing to do his frenetic rips or death scissors. I usually see him only in BLU af gear. His damage was pretty ok.

On another party was a Hume. This one had all the gear. Scorp Harness, some cloak which he wears between battles (I assume for refreshing). This guy would'nt stun mobs and keeps using Trick Attack + Death Scissors early on the battle behind me (Im not the tank). I even got killed once because of this idiot. Just because you can make 1k of damage doesnt mean you have to spam it as much as possible in the beginning of the fight. More than once I moved immediately when he did Death Scissors so he would get the idea . I think he did it once to the point that he managed to live with only 1hp Hahaha...

[Hantz]

Re: Humes Best job for BLU

I laughed and said this "that may be ... for now that is =\" then he didnt say a word after that.

Yeah...that was awkward.

[VZX]

Re: Humes Best job for BLU

Stat differences between races makes less and less overall difference as you rise in level, except for the afore-mentioned HP/MP.
Sure, there's something like 9 points of Strength difference between Elvaan and Tarutaru at 75, but even that amount of difference doesn't truly make much difference in overall effectiveness. The Tarutaru will deal a bit less damage, sure, but not cripplingly so - certainly with equivalently good gear at 75, the difference in terms of percent damage dealt is very low between races, whether we're talking about melee or magic.
Icemage

If you follow this statement by "Gear doesn't matter that much" then you're consistent. Otherwise the statements are going to contradict each other
9 STR difference is pretty big, gear wise.

[Omni]

Re: Humes Best job for BLU

i dont get why ppl still find the need to post these what race, what if this race, what if race and cactii were to, etc threads.

is there some innate need to discuss this for the 1000th time? and if you claim ignorance, i still dont believe you.

[Icemage]

Re: Humes Best job for BLU

If you follow this statement by "Gear doesn't matter that much" then you're consistent. Otherwise the statements are going to contradict each other
9 STR difference is pretty big, gear wise.

9 STR difference isn't that big a deal in terms of overall dynamics. Most gear makes very little difference. Sure, you'll see bigger damage numbers with 9 more STR, but how much bigger - and does it make that much difference in the grand scheme of things?

Of course there are differences when you have many, many such pieces of gear collectively in a party or alliance, but only in rare cases do pieces of gear give you a decisive difference in power; auto-refresh gear for mages, -phys% gear for tanks, etc. Simple stat add gear, even huge stuff like Kirin's Osode, while undeniably useful, don't make nearly as much difference as you'd think when it comes to how to go about conducting yourself in combat.


Icemage