Blm Advice

Been gone for a year and haven't played my blm since abyssea and I was wondering if I could get some advice on where to start with gear. I was playing Geo up until last Sept so I might have some stuff.

~Thanks

Get AF1 Body, upgrade it to 119. Nuke with it unless you're under manafont, manawell or like 25 sources of refresh.

Unlock Myrkr WS

If you played Geo you should already have a precast set, which will be the same for blm, more or less.

For a good nuke set, here's some of your goals :

ItemSet 337569 (my current mixed macc/mab set)
Helios head (hagondes head is still better for pure damage but lacks accuracy), hands and feet augmented with macc/mab INT and occult accumen. Hagondes pants +1 with mab. Toro cape, friomisi earring / Barkarole earring. Shiva ring+1 X2, Elder's grip +1, Ombre tathlum +1. Eddy Necklace is still good, Yamabuki-no-obi (incursion) or eschan stone (escha ra'un)
Get the elemental obi if you can, it's great.


A good myrkr set with plenty of MP.

Never swap staves.

Nuke > get tp > myrkr and repeat.

Aspir set, if you don't want a second helios set.

ItemSet 337523

Optional but still awesome :

Get AF3 feet to 119 (Wicce sabots +1) for Manawall, get 15 job point into wanawall > Be invincible for 5 minutes every 5 minutes ^^.

Don't forget, the new staff JSE for BLM from Escha lathi is also a good choice.
Path A) MP+80, INT+20, "Magic Attack Bonus"+20
or
Path C) INT+15, "Magic Attack Bonus"+15, Magic Accuracy+15.

Buy lathi, amalric hands/legs/feet and their abj, wretched coat.
Augm burst on helios head.
Enjoy 99k burst.

You know, I forgot BLM is now in a situation they don't need to swap weapon, haven't played the job since ToM staves were the weapons of choice.

With Myrkr it says it recovers 20% for every 1000%, so 20/40/60 and it scales with max MP, so would a Myrkr set basically be just stacking lots of MP+ gear?

Yes, if you are very into Escha, i wouldn't bother dumping gil into Helios too much.
Wretched coat is a iffy investment, if your already doing escha then honestly amalric doublet for the most part will see more use across both GEO and BLM. ^^

I still like keraunos when you're not changing staves.

Like having Magic burst bonus or 20% Cure potency on it allows you to reach cure pot cap with full Vanya healing skill path for crazy cure IV and still having lots of Macc mab and INT. But it's down to personal preference

But you're right, JSE wins for pure damage.

Yes a myrkr set is all about stacking MP and TP bonus.

Low Tier Nuke: (magic damage+)
ItemSet 337574
Hight Tier Nuke:(MAB)
ItemSet 37072
Aspir set :ItemSet 37076
Myrkr set: (1572mp at 3000tp)
ItemSet 337577

i volantary didn't use new abju+1 yet but for some slot i think it's an better choice than waht i put here

Oh does it scale above 1000% TP? So 1500TP would give 15% MP?

Or is TP Bonus only for triggering the next TP stage (eg going from 1750 to 2000 with moonshade).

it's 20%MP>40%MP>60%MP

so in actuality TP bonus is useless unless it raises you to the next tier?

yeah use this for myrkr:
1572mp at 3000tp ItemSet 337577

Pixie hairpin +1 and llwyd's clogs for head and feet.

Pixie Hairpin +1 120mp
Kaabnax Hat 75Mp + augment 60Mp = 135Mp

Llwyd's Clogs @ 2500 Mp give + 100MP
Psycloth Boots give 74Mp + path A +50Mp (124mp)
i hope that can help you to improve you'r current set ^^

actualy yes. I saw Natirah hat and didn't think about augments on psy boots. I may break 2700mp then, ty ! :)

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oui :), asura m'a forcé a changer ^^

Did some quick testing on SCH. Myrkr TP continues to scale between TP levels.

1031 TP, no Moonshade Earring > 402 MP
1031 TP, with Moonshade Earring > 503 MP
1281 TP, with no Moonshade Earring > 503 MP

Confirming that it has always scaled. TP bonus moonshade is a boon for Myrkr sets. Moonshade also makes it so you gain more MP by using Myrkr more often instead of going up to 3000 (2750)


If you are talking about curing yourself, you can also use various Cure Potency recieved items like these to get even more crazy numbers on yourself:

- Gishdubar Sash
- Kunaji Ring
- Phalaina Locket
- Various Telchine with up to +7% recieved

So this isn't meant to undermind anyones ideas or gear.

Why would we want to myrkr 3000MP? lol Where do we put it? I mean, soon as we have 3000 and cast a spell, unless your precast set is ALL mp based too, it'll just drop down to your precast amount.

In my wimpy Helios based myrkr set I can generally fill up most times without 3000TP. I'm looking at some of your gearset thinking "Oh no, I need more gear!". So what's the deal, why would we want so much unusable MP?

Yes I am ignorant. I too quit for a good while and still kind of have a TOAU mentality.

Thanks for your time.

Well for BLM "Death" is a thing now on some stuff, so you have all your pool to fill up.

Ok gotcha. TY for the reply. I'm still trying to get something to oneshot with Death. Seeing some peoples posts I guess it's a better idea to push huge DPS from it. Since we're on the subject lol

How is death the most effective? I've tried in all Dark skill gear, all MAB gear. Didn't really do any type of testing DPS wise.

Best in a MB? It doesn't seem to MB properly or is it my timing? For example, it's dark based, I have a hard time MB'ing it with Darkness. Is it me or death? Does it MB with only certain SC?

Thanks for reading.

Hey pints :) See my posts in the "Death testing" thread. I put a video there.

Be there tonight for some one shoting activity ^^.