Which order should I get these in?

[Crow]

Right now in my WHM career, I'm missing a couple of spellsthat I've been waiting on getting but I could use. In what order/importance should I get these? I think I'm missing barblizzara, barthundera, cursena, viruna, and a bunch of the barstatus spells(Not that those matter -_-). Thanks for the advice.

[Icemage]

Barthundra: Unless you are hunting Thunder Elementals on a regular basis, this spell has 0 usefulness.

Barblizzara: Very useful against any enemy that uses Ice Spikes (mostly undead). Get this as early as is reasonable.

Cursna: Get this ASAP if you can afford it. It is very useful for the Mission 6 dragon battle (all of the dragons can use Curse), as well as for fighting Ghost type enemies (ranging from lowly Spooks and Ghosts up to Revenants and Haunts).

Viruna: You NEED this spell once you start hunting Ancient Papyrus for the level break 1 (genkai 1) quest to advance beyond level 50. Doing so without this spell is an exercise in frustration, as Hell Hounds use their Disease-giving Rot Gas attack with regularity, and it lasts a very long time. My recommendation is to have this spell in your repertoire by level 47.

Barpoisonra: This is a fantastic spell to use when fighting Crawlers, Flies, and Spiders. It has a visible impact on how much damage is dealt by the spray-poison attacks these enemy types use.

Barparalyzra: Make sure you have this spell if you are planning to fight tigers in Battalia Downs (level ~30+). Barring that, you WILL want this spell by the time you get to level 50+, for the level break 2 (genkai 2) quest to increase your level cap to 60. 2 of the 3 notorious monsters you will have to fight to obtain the frigicite key items use Roar as a special attack (paralyzes all players within area of effect).

Barsleepra: Somewhat useful when fighting Mandragora in either Yutungha or Yhoator Jungles in Elshimo. Other than that, has no use that I can find beyond level 30ish.

Barblindra, Barsilencra, Barpetra, Barvira: I have never found a use for any of these spells.


Icemage

[Crow]

I already have barpoisonra and barsleepra... I never encountered a situation to use the others yet. I'm up to level 36/18, so tigers in Battalia aren't a big worry . As for cursena, from my experience in parties they don't like to fight ghost-types too much, but maybe that will change sometime. I do know that I won't need it for the dragon mission since I'm rank 5.

So basically, I'll just need to get Viruna, Cursena, Barparlalyzra and Barthundera sometime before level 50? That gives me a lot of time to save up and upgrade my armor a bit more . Maybe I can save up for a holy phial... Thanks for the help.

[Miriamel]

While we're on the importance on spells.. there is one spell I have been passing up on so far - Curaga II. Obviously silly to use in battle because of high MP cost and intense hate. The only use I can see for it is after-battle, when a strong AoE attack hit in.

I haven't yet encountered any enemy with AoE attack where I would have used Curaga II, even after battle, though.

Question is, what is an appropriate level to get and use it?

[Synbios]

Get all the spells and ignore the bar-statusna, IT mobs' status spells will stick no matter what, barelemental spells are always good, especially if you're aiming to go for the avatars, without the barelemental spells and fighting the avatars of that element is suicide. As for the status-na spells, these are the reasons why WHMs are picked over RDM/BLMs.

[locus]

Curaga spells are not expensive - they are a bargain for healing any more than two people and save resting time till the next chain provided the red mage and black mage know what you're doing and sit down instead of trying to help heal everyone.

Curaga 1 60mp= Cure 2 (24mp) X6
Curaga 2 120mp= Cure 3 (48mp) X6
Curaga 3 180mp= Cure 4 (88mp) X6
Curaga 4 240mp= Cure 5 (135mp) X6

You can live without the latest one and use divine seal to substitute instead - that's perfectly doable. Generally - you won't use them much in-battle (outside of HNMs where you can do the unalliance trick to remove hate problems) unless you have a person that can stick Sleep 2.

[VB-Shiva]

Originally posted by Icemage
Barparalyzra: Make sure you have this spell if you are planning to fight tigers in Battalia Downs (level ~30+). Barring that, you WILL want this spell by the time you get to level 50+, for the level break 2 (genkai 2) quest to increase your level cap to 60. 2 of the 3 notorious monsters you will have to fight to obtain the frigicite key items use Roar as a special attack (paralyzes all players within area of effect).

Barsleepra: Somewhat useful when fighting Mandragora in either Yutungha or Yhoator Jungles in Elshimo. Other than that, has no use that I can find beyond level 30ish.

Barblindra, Barsilencra, Barpetra, Barvira: I have never found a use for any of these spells.
Icemage [/B]

I've fought Tigers in Batalia and Mandras in Elshimo. The Barparalyzra and Barsleepra makes ZERO difference. The effect will always stick. It does not have any noticeable affect on duration either. Either way, you want to do Paralyzna or Cure immediately anyway to remove effect.

I'd suggest you skip all Bar[status] spells if you're low on money.