Hi all,
I am trying to Level my BLU as I find it very fun to play, but lately is has been very difficult to get pt invites :( ... I am BLU50 atm and I want to know what I have to do to get a pt invite lol..
Also, if any of you have an idea of where I can/should solo at this level.
Thanks!
Blue Mage Lack Of Pt Invites / Solo Guide?
Blue Mage Lack of pt Invites / Solo Guide?
Make your own parties, or follow the BLM solo guide, @50 Goblin Leeches in Gustav tunnel is good if i remember rightly.
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BLU can follow just about the same formula as BLM pets solo. Go /NIN and spell spam. Make sure your skill is capped as often as possible for no resists, and you should be more than fine. Ran into quiiiite a few BLUs soloing BLM camps when I was helping a friend boost to 75 recently.
Actually pretty sure wiki has a blu solo guide too. If you gear for haste/acc dex then str most the way up you can more or less headbutt lock most T/VTs. Which is how I solo'd pretty much all my spells.
Wow Thanks guys. I guess I'll try the BLM camps then. I always use /NIN for dual wield and Utsusemi, but I am leveling THF for pt later after lv60.
Is it going to be this hard from now on to get pt invites?
Is it going to be this hard from now on to get pt invites?
Personally I wouldn't know about how hard it is to get pts. I was going /thf pretty much since I got jetstream except those times I was the tank lol.
Now this was a good 1-2 years ago but I got pt invites pretty good all the way up to around 70ish... though tbh I didn't really seek that much mostly was doing campaign cause I kinda liked it.
Now this was a good 1-2 years ago but I got pt invites pretty good all the way up to around 70ish... though tbh I didn't really seek that much mostly was doing campaign cause I kinda liked it.
Might be tough now than a long time ago (due to nearly everyone leveled tank jobs and never bother to touch it other at EGs). At least that was on my sever.
Once you reach the bird camp level, it should be quick getting invites (or at least I did at that level :D).
Though I'd rather solo BLM pets than pt, had so many dysfunctional setups that makes me want to /wrist.
One thing to avoid when using the BLM pets solo guide are the SMN pets, they're pretty nasty :x
Once you reach the bird camp level, it should be quick getting invites (or at least I did at that level :D).
Though I'd rather solo BLM pets than pt, had so many dysfunctional setups that makes me want to /wrist.
One thing to avoid when using the BLM pets solo guide are the SMN pets, they're pretty nasty :x
I love campaign battle... I am meriting my PLD there... but that's a long way to go for my BLU (I don;t think I'll get much exp below lv60... Do you think I should finish leveling THF and start lfp /THF? Maybe that's why I am not getting the invites.
Idk if people would not invite you cause of that. Maybe ask you to change it. Idk I found /thf alot more useful in xping situations. Tanks couldn't come close to keep hate off me otherwise. The bad ones I could rip hate from without casting a single spell thanks to all the str/dex I set lol
Leviathan.Tamian said:
I love campaign battle... I am meriting my PLD there... but that's a long way to go for my BLU (I don;t think I'll get much exp below lv60... Do you think I should finish leveling THF and start lfp /THF? Maybe that's why I am not getting the invites.
Though lately, most see BLU as /NIN onry thanks to all those lolBLUs out there (/cry), so meh. But please do finish leveling it to sub LVL, you'll love it.
As for seeing an increase in invite % chances, maybe a little, but don't put your hopes up too high. Most might prefer non-MP oriented DD jobs (like SAM >.>;)
Thank you all. All this info is great. I will start using /THF as my THF is Lv34 anyways.
Situationally drk dnc and sch make good subs.
sch and dnc for soloing weaker stuff like campaign ep-Em. Especailly if that suff has mp lol.
drk for really high def stuff so you can still push out really high dmg on multihit spells, though not sure if just doing SA single it be better for that.
sch and dnc for soloing weaker stuff like campaign ep-Em. Especailly if that suff has mp lol.
drk for really high def stuff so you can still push out really high dmg on multihit spells, though not sure if just doing SA single it be better for that.
DRK's an ok sub, though Soul Eater might be overkill at EXP pts and might make healers hate you for life XD
But I love it!
Don't forget /BST! Great for soloing hard-to-get spells (as well as solo-EXP with better rates than a regular BST).
But I love it!
Don't forget /BST! Great for soloing hard-to-get spells (as well as solo-EXP with better rates than a regular BST).
/Thf is basically the /War-/Sam of other DD jobs. Onry use /Nin for situations where survival is more important that damage output.
When I hit 60 on Blu, I sat in campaign battle. As long as someone else is tanking a mob, Blu does well in it. Hell Blu/Dnc is pretty nice but I wouldn't recommend until 70 when you get Curing Waltz II (I think it's 35 for Dnc...)
If you indeed do Blu in campaign, I definately say go /Nin. /Thf will just get you killed.
Edit: This was before they nerfed fortifications and made it so you couldn't get skill-ups on campaign mobs, so you may need to constantly want skill-up parties if you go the campaign battle route.
When I hit 60 on Blu, I sat in campaign battle. As long as someone else is tanking a mob, Blu does well in it. Hell Blu/Dnc is pretty nice but I wouldn't recommend until 70 when you get Curing Waltz II (I think it's 35 for Dnc...)
If you indeed do Blu in campaign, I definately say go /Nin. /Thf will just get you killed.
Edit: This was before they nerfed fortifications and made it so you couldn't get skill-ups on campaign mobs, so you may need to constantly want skill-up parties if you go the campaign battle route.
I basically did campaign/gobbie pets from 63-75. The simple fact is that a BLU who doesn't know how to play the job will be nothing more than deadweight in AU areas. People tend to assume you know your job by that level, people see you suck, people then think BLU sucks. So... BLUs really don't get invited all that much. Even I am hesitant to invite a BLU.
Also, as far as campaign goes, /SCH becomes a better sub than /NIN at 70. At 75, BLU/SCH can solo campaign mobs more easily (I think) and for better EXP.
Also, as far as campaign goes, /SCH becomes a better sub than /NIN at 70. At 75, BLU/SCH can solo campaign mobs more easily (I think) and for better EXP.
At 60 with the "in campaign" gear from the last rank a blu should be able to tank 1. -10% dmg from ring and 25vit go a long ways...
I actually rarely use Curing waltz II when /dnc. Mostly do it for the aspir samba, erase... actually that is pretty much it. Even at that it tends to be easier and better than /sch for me even though on paper that looks better. But if I aboslutely need more mp then 3 refresh and aspir samba and the occasional mp drain kiss can give me for some crazy reason (tanking 2+ sam mobs for 1) then being able to cure with tp kinda nice. Or if you need instant curing.
Also though I have never run into this problem /dnc can help you keep hate. Don't forget that that +25 def neck also helps your cures/waltzs
I actually rarely use Curing waltz II when /dnc. Mostly do it for the aspir samba, erase... actually that is pretty much it. Even at that it tends to be easier and better than /sch for me even though on paper that looks better. But if I aboslutely need more mp then 3 refresh and aspir samba and the occasional mp drain kiss can give me for some crazy reason (tanking 2+ sam mobs for 1) then being able to cure with tp kinda nice. Or if you need instant curing.
Also though I have never run into this problem /dnc can help you keep hate. Don't forget that that +25 def neck also helps your cures/waltzs
So basically I might have to solo most of the time until 60 and then campaign battle?? I mean, it is not a bad plan considering that you can get a decent 10k exp from 1-2 hours of campaign. I could live with that... I need the Allied Notes anyway for my PLD gear lol
I can't speak for /Sch since I never got around to trying that while I was playing, but I did hear it was boss. Sort of depends on the mob , I guess. Drk or War mobs will shread a Blu - simply too squishy. Sure you can hold it off, but you'll basically be spending so much time healing that you won't put out any damage.
Edit: Everyone looks at Blu as a DD that needs Refresh. No one wants a Blu if there isn't a Rdm in the party, so invites for Blu tend to suck ***.
Edit: Everyone looks at Blu as a DD that needs Refresh. No one wants a Blu if there isn't a Rdm in the party, so invites for Blu tend to suck ***.
Fairy.Azulmagia said:
I basically did campaign/gobbie pets from 63-75. The simple fact is that a BLU who doesn't know how to play the job will be nothing more than deadweight in AU areas. People tend to assume you know your job by that level, people see you suck, people then think BLU sucks. So... BLUs really don't get invited all that much. Even I am hesitant to invite a BLU.
Also, as far as campaign goes, /SCH becomes a better sub than /NIN at 70. At 75, BLU/SCH can solo campaign mobs more easily (I think) and for better EXP.
Also, as far as campaign goes, /SCH becomes a better sub than /NIN at 70. At 75, BLU/SCH can solo campaign mobs more easily (I think) and for better EXP.
Yeah in campaign I try to purposely gear my self to take as much dmg as I can manage. So if that means switching the vit neck for str so be it... among other changes.
I find aspir samba and erase tends to make up for loss of aspir/sublimation. Then again I find my self taking lots of dmg alot too.
There is also lower lvl imps
I find aspir samba and erase tends to make up for loss of aspir/sublimation. Then again I find my self taking lots of dmg alot too.
There is also lower lvl imps
I avoided /Nin once I got 70+ and could take hits. At 60 though a Blu will get that *** handed to if he/she is tanking.
Not if you gear for tanking in campaign!!! Tacos help too.
Surprised no one mentioned Imps, those things are lolamazing for BLUs at the early 60's as well as later on :)
Plus it helped me gather all those Imperial Standings!
Plus it helped me gather all those Imperial Standings!
semimmortal said:
Surprised no one mentioned Imps, those things are lolamazing for BLUs at the early 60's as well as later on :)
Plus it helped me gather all those Imperial Standings!
Plus it helped me gather all those Imperial Standings!
What I did was level sync my butt off til 65 then campaign my butt off. Skill up when u farm the spells.
I don't mind pting, the problem is that the invites are not coming, at least not on my server. How long ago did you leveled your BLU?
Shouldn't /BST work great soloing using the extra CHR from the spells and gear?
Shouldn't /BST work great soloing using the extra CHR from the spells and gear?
Theres less to set for chr then you'd think lol.
Leviathan.Tamian said:
I don't mind pting, the problem is that the invites are not coming, at least not on my server. How long ago did you leveled your BLU?
Shouldn't /BST work great soloing using the extra CHR from the spells and gear?
Shouldn't /BST work great soloing using the extra CHR from the spells and gear?
Used it also when soloing Imps in the mire for a while. Pretty decent and works nicely.
For soloing spells with only a few exception I found you could solo at or a bit below the lvl even as a taru with pretty just lots of headbutt and utsusemi ichi. Later on Ni and actinic burst come in handy.
And all thru out things like the 2 slows are good. ANd on some where you just can't keep shadows up or they got nasty AOE the sleep spells. Oddly I almost never set healing lol
And all thru out things like the 2 slows are good. ANd on some where you just can't keep shadows up or they got nasty AOE the sleep spells. Oddly I almost never set healing lol
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