Blue magic skillup locations

[Vyuru]

I'm guessing some people may be in the same boat that I'm in. Namely for whatever reason, most likely soloing though, they have their blue magic skill a bit underleveled and would like to safely raise it. So I thought a thread on where you can still get fairly safe skillups.

The other night I went to try and gain skillups in Campaign fights as a level 58 Blue Mage, my starting Blue Magic skill was about 186ish. Without wearing my Magus Jubbah, I got skillups on Steelbiter Gudrud, Vuu Puqu The Beguiler, and Yaa Haqa The Pious.

I received no skillups on Divine Liturgist or Divine Inspirers. However I did receive skillups on Divine Inciters and Divine Assassins and Throatripper Predators. This was in the Meriphataud Mountains [S] fights for the yagudo and Vunkerl Inlet for the orcs. The yagudo gave me much faster and more requent skillups than the orcs did. I was able to cap my blue magic skill at 193 fairly quickly. This was much better than going and trying to get skillups in a Besieged or something.

Spells used for skillups are primarily Poison Breath and Blastbomb. Since Poison Breath has a longer recast timer, I normally use Blastbomb>Poison Breath>Blastbomb>some other spell>repeat cycle. If I use some other spell while waiting for recast timers, I may also use a sleep spell, either Soprorific or Sheep Song, or else Frightful Roar/Filamented Hold. I get better skillups with Soporific and Sheep Song, but Frightful Roar/Filamented Hold are more useful for the fight if they land.

[meSchnitzel]

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So far ive just been leveling using FoV when not in a party. I'm 500 xp to 40 atm. I find that my skill goes up a lot faster if i fight the things asked for on pages accurate to my level.

Tigers have been very helpful at in Beaducine Glacier for level 37-38 to max Blu magic.
I'm hoping that dolls work well for 40-41

[ruffrydasean]

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ffxi-atlas.com Had a skill up calculator up, but they recently updated the site and I don't know where it went.

[LilithAngel]

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ffxi-atlas.com Had a skill up calculator up, but they recently updated the site and I don't know where it went.

Yeah, about that.... I've been using that thing for my Samurai recently.

Kinda miss it.

Like, a lot.

[Raydeus]

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Should've saved the script to use it from your comp instead of the site.

[Vyuru]

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I find that my skill goes up a lot faster if i fight the things asked for on pages accurate to my level.

If I remember right, I think that if you do the pages that are accurate for your level then the mobs will con EM-T, could be wrong though.

Those mobs are fine to get skillups off of, but there does come a time when you may not want to have to go out and find the mobs for the good skillups. Either due to time limitations, or the risk factor of just can you handle that mob. I'm suspicious that that time is right about now, where I'm in the transition between the 50's and the 60's.

I'll be focusing on Campaign fights due to time limitations, and there does seem to be some differences in which mobs give skillups there and I'm curious to see how far you can gain skillups from the mobs.

[Celeal]

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idk... i seems to had better luck in Besiged; spam low MP spell like Poison Breath. Within a single Besiged my skill were capped.

[ruffrydasean]

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Vana'diel Bestiary The skill up calculator seems to be back up.. whatever

[Draconi]

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I know this is an old thread, but I stumbled upon it and want to add my thoughts in case anyone else needs help on this.

The skill-up guide mentioned above is irrelavent when skilling up blue magic. You get skill-up simply by casting blue magic (similar to summoning magic). You don't need to cast on a mob to get skill-up; You can skill-up using curing and enhancing spells such as pollen and cocoon.

I fell way behind on blue magic skill, because I leveled almost solely in Campaign from levels 61 through 69. After realizing that my skill was severely lagging, I stood in Whitegate for about an hour pollenating myself until I was once again capped. When I ran out of MP, I simply stepped into the mog house.

This is a much faster way to skill up than fighting mobs.

[hexx]

Re: Blue magic skillup locations

I know this is an old thread, but I stumbled upon it and want to add my thoughts in case anyone else needs help on this.

The skill-up guide mentioned above is irrelavent when skilling up blue magic. You get skill-up simply by casting blue magic (similar to summoning magic). You don't need to cast on a mob to get skill-up; You can skill-up using curing and enhancing spells such as pollen and cocoon.

I fell way behind on blue magic skill, because I leveled almost solely in Campaign from levels 61 through 69. After realizing that my skill was severely lagging, I stood in Whitegate for about an hour pollenating myself until I was once again capped. When I ran out of MP, I simply stepped into the mog house.

This is a much faster way to skill up than fighting mobs.

Not necessarily faster, just safer if you don't know what you're doing as a BLU. My blue magic skill also feel behind in the 72-75 range since people rarely invite BLU to meritpo's (even though we own most DDs except DRG on birds) but that problem is easily fixed if you just go solo/duo some Imps with another BLU.

[Elwynn]

Re: Blue magic skillup locations

The skill-up guide mentioned above is irrelavent when skilling up blue magic. You get skill-up simply by casting blue magic (similar to summoning magic). You don't need to cast on a mob to get skill-up; You can skill-up using curing and enhancing spells such as pollen and cocoon.

The trick is that if it works like all the other magic skills, then the speed of skillups is dependent upon the level of the target mob. In the case of self-target spells, you are the target, so the target level is your level. And when the target is the same level as you, skillups really slow down as you reach your cap.

Look up the handy dandy skill levels chart on wiki, see what the cap is for two or three levels down, and when you reach that point, head for Besieged and spam low-MP spells on the NMs.

[Draconi]

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You can make a macro that casts pollen several times each time you press the macro button. Plus, you can step into the mog house to regain MP, so you eliminate the down-time for resting. Although you may need to cast more times to get a skill-up, you will be casting 4-5 times faster than you would be casting on mobs. So skill-up is much much faster using this approach.

[Armando]

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PC-targeting spells skill up so slowly that I'd wager you'd make faster progress going /NIN, pulling an IT mob near a zone line, spamming spells at it and zoning out when you lose too much HP.

Hell you could just find some worm.

[hexx]

Re: Blue magic skillup locations

You can make a macro that casts pollen several times each time you press the macro button. Plus, you can step into the mog house to regain MP, so you eliminate the down-time for resting. Although you may need to cast more times to get a skill-up, you will be casting 4-5 times faster than you would be casting on mobs. So skill-up is much much faster using this approach.

heh heh, no, no no no, you're tryin to tell veteran BLUs that your way (self casting pollen) will skill you up faster? Dont be lazy, get out there and solo some mobs which is what BLU is able to do unlike most other jobs. Hell, you will get exp, beastment and/or kindred seals in the process!

BLU's like you make the rest of us look bad man, makes me cry.

[Vyuru]

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you will be casting 4-5 times faster than you would be casting on mobs

False.

Sprout Smack, Foot Kick, Rinse and repeat.

Although I do find some spells to be somewhat better for skilling up, Sand Spin for one.

Also, this was not meant so much as a guide, but more of a place for players to come saying where they got skillups and how difficult/easy it was. My way was through Campaign, which has been eliminated by SE.