BLM's and snow rings

Aither

Aither

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Now I am seeing a lot of BLM's 74+ who either wear the 2X diamond rings or 1 diamond ring and 1 Snow. It's rare that I see a BLM with two Snow's. I am leveling BLM and would really like to know why BLM's don't sport dual snow usually.
 
It's a long shot, but I'll still try.
Not enough money to buy them?
 
Simple, because the vast majority of "BLM" are wretchedly fucking gimp, and complete idiots. That is why you see them rollin' around with genius rings, or a Sorcers Ring without the equipment needed to activate it, or a fucking cunning earring, or even an astral ring. I could understand a year or so ago when Snow's were 3m+, but for fuck sake, they're down to like 1.3m nowadays.

Real BLM's roll Tamas anyway:biggrin:
 
Zethren said:
It's a long shot, but I'll still try.
Not enough money to buy them?
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Yup.

To be honest, my thoughts were that an extra 5% damage boost from the HQ staves completely out weighed two INT (from upgrading from Diamond to Snows), hence why I haven't even considered buying snow rings till now (only HQ stave I need is terras... and I'll probably never buy one ^^).

Genie Manillas seem like a better purchase than some snow rings to me, but I'm gonna buy the snows first anyways seeing as though I'm fed up of looking at those stupid bland grey rings.

If you have a god's ls, and you can co-herse them into letting you lot a legs & head, you should buy a sorcerer's ring and sell your second snow (unless you put yourself in situations where intentionally going into yellow HP could be detrimental to your survival - dynamis, soloing, over nuking).

Thats just my 2 cents anywhos.
 
Bedwarmer said:
Real BLM's roll Tamas anyway
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Yay, I'm a real playa.

Anyways, I use 1 Tamas, and 1 Snow Ring as a Taru BLM. I know Crosis uses a Serket Ring for that Elvaan MP as well as Tamas, whatever works for you.
 
If I had CoP done I'd use a Tamas... But alas, I'm so gimpy I don't even have Snows! (yet.. *crazy laugh*)

I'm in the process of saving up now, I should have enough for one by the end of this week, then I just gotta sell my sou-- old gear off my mules for my second, and do some more farming (maybe even a BCNM run if anyone wants to try go for a peacock charm... Hit me up, RDM40/NIN20 at your service :p )
 
Ok heres a follow up question! I have a Sorc ring what is the best way to go about getting my HP down to activate it?
 
Hmkiroko said:
Anyways, I use 1 Tamas, and 1 Snow Ring as a Taru BLM. I know Crosis uses a Serket Ring for that Elvaan MP as well as Tamas, whatever works for you.
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I have Serket Ring but I don't nuke in it :P

Normally Tarus have a ton of mp and just use it like normal to cast their buffs, but I'll use excess mp from Serket and Zenith gear to throw on protect/shell/stoneskin/reraise etc. Plus I need Serket to get Sorc ring latent hehe.

Aither said:
Ok heres a follow up question! I have a Sorc ring what is the best way to go about getting my HP down to activate it?
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Depends what race you are, the more HP you have the harder to get the latent. As an Elvaan I need Serket, Zenith Hands, Feet, Head, Legs, Ether Ring, Blue Cape. Roughly 300 hp>mp gear.
 
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Depends on what race you are. I'm not logged into FF atm so I'll try to remember what I use for Mithra:

Ivory Scythe thingy
Faerie Hairpin
Black Coathardwhatever
Blue Cape+1
Star Necklace (Rare/ex quested from Star Onion Taru's)
Ether Ring
Astral Ring
Tipha Sting

I'm pretty sure that's all. I know Uliwela uses far less shit as Taru, and it cost Zeo a fortune to gather the stuff needed for Hume. No clue about Elvaan or lolgalka.
 
Thanks Kid!

Im only a 59 BLM so I'll hit the AH and try and ger some HP- gear. I researched the ring it kicks in @ 80% hp right?
 
Aither said:
Thanks Kid!

Im only a 59 BLM so I'll hit the AH and try and ger some HP- gear. I researched the ring it kicks in @ 80% hp right?
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I've heard 80, 79, 78, and 77. It works for me at 77%.
 
On my taru, I have 694 HP with /WHM, and 712 HP /RDM.. So, doing the math, you'd need to lower your HP to 520.5 with /WHM (521 since SE always rounds up) and 534 with /RDM. That makes a HP difference (and thus the amount of HP you need to subtract from your current HP) of 173 HP /WHM and 178 HP /RDM.

The easiest way to do this would be to have A legs and head (-100 HP) an Ether ring (or serket if you have the money) -30 HP, Errant Cuffs and Pigaches for -40 HP and use rostrum pumps > yigit...

Bear in mind that WHM also has auto regen, which can pose a problem if you're cutting it very narrow on your -HP set up...
 
Yea I think im going to just use my Int rings until more -hp gears becomes available or bust sorc out when I get smacked really good for hitting too hard/shitty tank lol
 
Aither said:
Allright cool :) Man I didnt expect to get so many replies so fast lol
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Im in a crazy class atm and bored so yeah >_>

and Bedwarmer Zeo will never admit it but yeah he is the best player I know
 
Aither said:
Yea I think im going to just use my Int rings until more -hp gears becomes available or bust sorc out when I get smacked really good for hitting too hard/shitty tank lol
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For the love of god, be smarter than most, and don't bother screwing with Sorcer's until you can activate it yourself. Someone will heal you, they always do, and it becomes wasted motion to hurriedly try and equip it when you take a few shots. In fact, you'll most likley forget. I had Sorcer's before the hp gear, got frustrated with it, sold it, and rebought it later when I had the power over it Muuwahahahaha
 
Aither said:
Allright cool :) Man I didnt expect to get so many replies so fast lol
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I have to go to work and do something I got paid for last week. The motivation just isn't there, hence my presence.
 
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