A tip against worms...

[Armando]

I recently discovered that physical blue magic spells have the same range as WS. Now, some time ago I had discovered that WS have slightly more range than both PC and mob's autoattack, which means that you can WS a silenced worm from just out of their attack range. Since physical spells have the same range as WS, then you can silence a worm and beat it down with your usual spells without taking damage. It's a nifty trick to keep in mind.

[Kholdstare]

Re: A tip against worms...

When you say this, are you referring to the ranged spells like Wild Oats, Jet Stream, Dimensional Death, and stuff like that? or do you mean that some close-up spells (like Bludgeon, etc.) can be used just a little bit further away than a worm's attack range?

[Armando]

Re: A tip against worms...

I mean the ones with normal range (i.e. up close) ones. You should be able to use any of them from just outside the worm's (and your) attack range.

[Kholdstare]

Re: A tip against worms...

I mean the ones with normal range (i.e. up close) ones. You should be able to use any of them from just outside the worm's (and your) attack range.

That's actually really interesting. I'm sure that just opened a lot of solo possibilities for BLUs. Nice find.

[Armando]

Re: A tip against worms...

Thanks ^^ I just tried it for myself to make sure (I noticed I could start fights with spells from just outside of my autoattack range, but I wanted to make double sure it worked against worms.) Tried Foot Kick, Sprout Smack, Screwdriver, Hell Dive, Head Butt, Bludgeon and they all worked perfectly fine. This is my best find since I started avoiding Dimensional Death by running unlocked backwards in first-person mode in a big circle while killing shadows

Edit: Holy Jesus. When/how did I become a Brain of Knowledge?

[Taskmage]

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Brain of Knowledge / Keeper of Knowledge / Oracle of Knowledge is a post count thing. Grats on 1k. ^^

[Armando]

Re: A tip against worms...

Oh joy! Thanks

[Rai-Jin]

Re: A tip against worms...

thx alot fot the tipp, works
even without silence its still good against strong mobs since you only get hit by spells/abilitys

[Malacite]

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Neato. Now the first spell BLU can use to silence worms isn't until Chaotic Eye at 32 right?

[Armando]

Re: A tip against worms...

No prob. And yes, it'd be Chaotic Eye, but since we get Head Butt you could probably get away with not having Silence so long as keep stunning their casts.

[Ryba]

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Very nice find =P I had heard about BLU soloing worms, but they were stating it similar to BLMs, which would be slightly more difficult for us since most of our spells have limited range. But this is great news! ^_^;; Will have to do this in my downtime between PTs =P Btw, has anyone ran through a composition yet of the exp lvls in which we could solo certain worms and where they're located? If not, guess I have alot of work to do lol since this is all very beneificial to up-n-coming BLUs ^.~

-SM