BLM/SMN subjob mana difference

[PetriW]

Edit: note that this question is for a a char with White Mage as main job (and some mod erroneously moved it to BLM forum).

So, I see all the time how SMN as subjob gives you "lots more mp" than BLM but how much is lots? 30mp, 100mp, an extra mana regen skill?
Sorry if it's n00b question but I'll be 18 soon so it's about time I figured it out. BLM does seem to have several spell that would be neat that might overweight a larger mana pool.

Level 70whm/35 numbers are enough if someone has them.

[darknight694]

you can Never have enough mana....

[Amylisa]

This calculator is pretty good for calculating hp/mp :

http://ccwf.cc.utexas.edu/~nhart/Status_calculator.htm

[Icemage]

Actually, the stat calculator is wildly inaccurate. There is a difference, but I don't know how much there is at level 70. At a rough guess, based on what I saw at level 50, it is probably somewhere around 100MP.


Icemage

[PetriW]

No idea why this was moved to black mage as it's not exactly interesting for them how their class performs as a subjob to white mage...

Question was how much white mages mana was affected by the BLM and SMN subjobs, I guess I'll edit my first post so it won't be misunderstood by it being moved out of context.

[Calianeri]

It's similar to how a BLM/SMN's MP is different from BLM/WHM. In other words, you don't gain that much MP as a WHM/SMN, and you lose the useful abilities of a WHM/BLM. The values of a summoner subjob always seem to be overrated. I've seen auto-refresh in action, and as Starving Artist said, it isn't that impressive and isn't even a factor until level 50 main. That said, however, at least WHM/SMN makes a little more sense than BLM/SMN.

[PetriW]

Yeah, wherever I looked it seemed that the actual mana gain was really minor although I never saw any hard numbers until StarvingArtists post. One extra Cure2 doesn't sound that exciting. :sweat:
Which basically means it's abilities rather than mana pool that decides.

[Irinicus]

IMO, do not sub SMN, rather make that your main and sub WHM or BLM. You will be much better off that way.