Question about subbing /BLUFollow

Is this feasible? I love Dragoon and I love BLU but I was curious as to how well they would work together, if at all?

Edited, Feb 12th 2010 10:47am by Aevilesth

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/BLU is an amazing solo sub. The vast majority of your spells are low MP, fast casting, and debuff the mob despite having a low magic skill. I use head butt, sprout smack, and cocoon as my trigger spells.

Unless you want to be main healer (which is pretty dangerous pre~70ish and downright suicidal pre-60), you'll always be asked to /WAR or /SAM (or /NIN, but don't listen to that if it's an XP party) in XP.

DRG is quite capable of soloing to 75 as /BLU, though (you'll still want /WAR /SAM etc. once you get there).

/WHM is pretty much my default sub for normal everyday things. It's good for healing in exp, and has proved very useful in nyzul, sky (farming), etc.

/BLU for solo exp or campaign battles where I can get RR, or big solo/duo NMs and fights where stuff hits hard.

/RDM only comes out for avatars really, and even then it's not a big advantage over /WHM.


And before anyone asks: No, wyrm mail does nothing for /BLU.

Nearly impossible? No.

I think you'll be killing your invite rate though. /WAR til 70, /SAM after that for parties. Once you get a wyrm armet you can go back to /BLU for meriting as the main healer, though if you don't have anyone else with raise you should probably go /WHM.

Edited, Feb 13th 2010 2:44pm by bsphil

Personally I use Foot Kick as my Healing Breath trigger. The +1 AGI, though nominal, does more for your solo'ing than +1 MND. Same MP cost and casting time too.

The largest advantage to this is the fact you can set every other slot to HP+ and keep one slot for Cocoon. This means that you can trigger healing breath at a higher HP than otherwise, increasing your survivability.

I've done meripos before with no mage, just me drg/blu and a DNC and we still pulled in 20+k/hr. I find myself rarely using /whm now unless I'm doing something I know I will be reliant on sneak/invisible.

As a side-note, I just got my Ethereal Earring this week and OMG it's changed my /mage life on DRG.

Edit: Just noticed about the Wyrm mail thing, damn shame it doesn't work cos you could give your wyvern magic attack bonus which would increase the amount of healing breath (When Deep Breathing wears off if you don't use it you get message: <Insert wyvern name here>'s Magic Attack Bonus effect wears off.

Edited, Feb 14th 2010 7:02pm by Jimie

cost 2 points to set instead of 1 too, where you could probably get something better than 1 agi.

as for main healing in (merit)party, i'd say /rdm /whm are sometime safer.
the main problem i see is the cast range in some areas like bottom g.colibri camp that have some small ledges you can't climb, if someone get whacked up there and you can't get close enough, chances are they die if you're the only healer.
at least if you goes there as /blu, make a pollen hb macro, may helps for that.

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Some thing I want to make clear. You wont be using any BLU spell to deal damage. The Only thing you should be using MP for is casting Cocoon and to trigger HB. Maybe to cast wild oats, I like to use it to pull. You're still pretty low level so you probably wont have the amount of mp to piss away that I do.

I like to set my spells for Regen Healing Breeze and sheep song. Its a pretty low level combo so you may be able to do it. Besides that I set my trigger spells sprout slap, foot kick, and wild oats. Next comes Cocoon then fill my remaining set points with STR then DEX.

Edit: There may be another trait I set but I dont remember it right now.

Edited, Feb 19th 2010 2:38pm by ketrel

No. You have to reach a certain amount of evasion+ on DRG to actually start evading more than the absolute floor of 5% evade rate against a merit level mob. That amount on DRG is equivalent to more than you should ever be using. I wouldn't be surprised if it was more than you COULD use.

AGI+1 is doing nothing.

I don't use Foot Kick because it costs one more blue magic point, and with my standard build I cap out at 25/25, so there's no room for taking foot kick over power attack.

Except instead of wasting time as /NIN you could just be /mage.



Edited, Feb 19th 2010 2:45pm by bsphil

5-1 is ridiculously easy. You don't ever need to resort to something so bizarre. The last few times I did that fight, everyone but me zerged the main boss and I sat there Provoking the adds on WAR as they came in. What with hidden damage types working under cap, if it's really a problem, just find three SAMs and give them all Honebamis. There are literally enough people with SAM levelled in any given player's network of acquaintances to do this.

Honestly, I'm still trying to get my head around level capped fights being difficult (Airship's an exception to prove the rule -- I'm still trying to get my head around a level capped fight being difficult)

true /mage works better when the party of un-enlightened people will allow it. I think when I was exping thru WG areas I only got 1 party that let me come back as /mage, but then I was the only healer and they didn't seem to listen when I explained what it took for me to heal and what limitations there were.

Ninja tank and a couple sams trying to do ZOMG dmg to prove they weren't just bandwagon sams. Suffice to say it didn't end well.

Alot of people are still clueless about what Drgs can do. I even had a LS mate who was drg75 for a year before me wonder why my healing breaths were doing more then his, I use wyvern HP gear and he didn't. I had to teach him a couple things.