BLM CAN MB FOR 800+ DMG ARGH!

Trippyhippy said:
A taru is the only race that has enuff MP to waste on AM Burst while leveling below 65 or so.

Other than that, Fussion > Firaga II was the best way to go for Damage.

However, I have always been reluctant to use -ga bursts as they are not MP efficient at lower lvls. When your Int reaches 80 or so, you'll start seeing serious Numbers from Spells Like Blizzaga II.

But all in all, bitching to a blm because they aren't doing enough Damage on a MB is an exercise in futillity.

Blm should only be bitched at if they do too much damage and pull hate more than 2x/fight, or if they miss the MB more than every great once in a while.

If you don't do those 2 things as a Blm, Congratulations, you have achieved mediocrity!
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I MB'd AM regularly at 50-60.
Funny how people think they know everything.
 
Likewise... wtf is with people thinking Taru's are the only decent mages. I know some piss poor Taru mages. I have close to 1k MP and 148 INT, don;t tell me Mithrans can't nuke :evil:
 
I'm pretty overzelaous when it comes to my main job, yeah, I am a Taru, but not because of that I believe I nuke better or worse than any other race, hell, Galka BLM who can pull damage close or same as a taru has all my respect.

Anyways, onto the issue, what kind of retarded idiot DEMANDS a set ammount of damage to be done?, jeez, seriously, when I was 55 a long time ago I got water III, saw that it did half the damage of an ancient for just 1/3 the MP, then I've never done ancient MBs on exp PTs since then, even when i was asked to, friend of mine who leveled BLM recently refused to do Freeze MB for the same reason, as a result he got kicked out of the PT, it is retarded, people who just see at the numbers means they have a tiny vision or something. I've always refused to MB with -ga spells, they just a waste of MP, you spend usually double the MP for just 200~300 dmg, those 300 dmg I can obtain from a level II nuke and for a lot less MP than half the -ga spell cost.

Anyways, I was pretty disturbed that there are still people that ask for a set ammount of damage and they just kick you if you don't do it :|.
 
MBing with AM is just dumb. Not only is it a waste of MP, but almost every pt that made me use AM magic couldnt SC on time and I got lots of hate from the mob. After 4-5 deaths cause the melee's could'nt time it right(my macro even told them when to go) I refused.

Asking for 800+ dmg at 53 is just insane. And for all those who think that taru's do way more dmg then other races are wrong. At 75 a taru blm/whm has about 79 base int. Humes have 69. 1 int equals about 3-4 more dmg, its not all the much more dmg. The only real advantage they have is their crazy mp pools.

And as a side note my BLM never pulls hate, ask anyone who's pt'd with me or done gods with me. :oops:
 
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"but almost every pt that made me use AM magic couldnt SC on time and I got lots of hate from the mob"
 
If you are good bursting AM is doable in the "lower" lvls, but realy is not the most efficent use of MP until chain 3+. It tends to hinder your DMG over the course of the battle, sure you have one big 1k+ damage but you usualy do not make a whole lot more casts besides that.
 
Loli your 1st clue should have been melee rdm...The sign of all things fucked up in parties. Now there MAY be some who are good at it but theodds are against you and its a losing bet. The only time that its feesible to use AM for MB is if your party is exceptional and that you have a rdm plus a bard in party.
 
I was a poor little blm back in the day with only my ice and dark staff so guess which element I tried to stick to :oops:

well anyways ya at 53 fighting a normal exp. mob there's no way you're doing 800+ MB without AM and somone asking for one specific number is just dumb.

Freeze was ok I used it untill I got blizzaga II just so much better for mp, didn't use the other ones because back in the day I only had ice staff. MBing AM isn't very hard you just need a very loud annoying macro that no one can miss :wink:

I found the biggest problem for mp at that lvl was a lot of gimp ass meles just leeching exp. doing almost no damage and missing the skill chain half the time, I had a nice list of them on my black list. As long as the DDs did damage I never found a problem with mp even when using freeze.

note: now of course I got every elemental staff and still don't use AM unless I'm really bored. Oh and I pull hate all the time if the party doesn't have SATA or the tank isn't very good or the damn meles just aren't killing fast enough and I gotta hit hard to keep the chain, this is why I like rdm sub I get phalanx stoneskin and blink 8) oh and kiting is always good if you end up in trouble :wink: of course this is nothing like the days of freeze when I'd line up behind the pld for cover every battle now it's just like once a chain... unless the party is really screwed up (earth staff tanking galka pld with no SATA in the party...one of those times kiting comes in handy)
 
Just my comment!

I was 50-51 RDM (non-melee, playing the smart role) they BLM was 50 (just turned it) so we set up a SC i dont remember what it was but it was great. He would cast Freeze and about 1/3 of its life would disappear it was the finishing touch.

I must admit it was a little hard getting everything set up, took about 5 MOBS to do but in the end it was great. We had a nice party set up and things were smooth, so i am one for AM , .....Of course i was Refreshing as fast and as often as i could.
 
AM CAN work great...but it is a pain in the ass. You can have a 800-1k AM MB or you can have a 500-600 normal MB. The normal MB takes about 1/3 or less of the MP, and you do not need to give prompts to the melees (which they almost always screw up). Also it sucks for chaining lower enemies...if you are killing mobs that give around 200xp and would take a while to kill without AM then its all good. But if you are killing 150ish mobs that you are chaining then AM will cause to much downtime usually due to the high MP cost . Also the melees might deal damage putting it down to less than 1/3 making it not very efficient when you only needed a normal nuke to finish it. And last but not least if you use it and it doesn't kill the mob (most likely because it wasn't a MB because the melees messed up SC or timing) then there is a very high chance that you will pull hate off the tank and it will start maiming you in the face.

Am is effective but a pain in the ass for the mages and even more so for the melee having to SC at a specific time. Also its MP:Damage ratio sucks totally...

So yeah pick any of those reasons for people not liking it :twisted:
 
I'm ending fights easily with Firaga II. 500+ dmg with less MP loss. Sucks I'm going to the Tree soon so no more of that =/
 
Cyruss is a freaking idiot. I forget what the actual incident is, but he's on my blist for a reason.

It was something like what the OP experienced. He's just about as bad as the RDM (really wish I knew the name) that said Regen was MP regeneration, and anyone who tried to correct him/her was an asshole.
 
Malagra said:
It was something like what the OP experienced. He's just about as bad as the RDM (really wish I knew the name) that said Regen was MP regeneration, and anyone who tried to correct him/her was an asshole.
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I'd really like to know that name, too. :lol:
 
Shaunessy said:
Well it's worked in the parties I've been in. Maybe your parties just suck.
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It's not whether or not AM works, it's that the cost per damage ratio is out of proportion.
 
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