This week we’re back to Blue Mage with plenty of job quests, spellbook hunting, leveling, and most importantly… Masked Carnivale! This is possibly some of the most underrated content in Final Fantasy XIV, so let’s dive in and find out what we’ve been missing!
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iirc there's a spell, whose name currently escapes me, that you can only use when solo, that pairs with mighty guard, and which gets rid of the massive damage penalty.
I had to laugh at this, I hit the final sting spell by mistake while going through my new spell line up and kied… my husband laughed so hard while rezzing me
all those comments skipped the important bit: to play as blue mage you need to equip the job stone
I am glad you decided to learn Choco Meteor. That's probably the bread and butter of any leveling process for Blue Mage due to how potent it is when you have your chocobo out. ^_^
Also, thank you for showing the cutscenes at the end. That is the only time I will experience them as I intend to stop playing FFXIV when Wizard101 comes to consoles so I won't ever finish the Blue Mage quests. 🙁
that ending xD
FFXIV community in general is drastically different than the early FFXI community. In FFXIV people follow guides for everything and if there isn't a guide, they wait until there is one. You then get belittled in public groups for not following a guide on day 1 savage release for not following some streamer's guide for the fights. In FFXI when the RoZ and CoP expansions came out, you couldn't go to a wiki page to get a step by step guide to follow. The best you could do was find some bloggers posts and hope they said where to go. Also the NPC's did not (and still does not today) give you quest markers for any mission or side quest. You had to figure out where to go based on what the NPC said.
I use a guide to find all the spells, but then I use what spells i like, I dont care what the "best spells" are. I also learned all the carnivals with no guides. some took some time to learn though lol.
I award you a viewer achievement for defeating Gogo without diamondback.
The Most Least Effort Possible Blue Mage : 10 pts. Cause you might have least efforted the spells, you most efforted the fight and won!
Mans beat Azumalgia without a guide…? oh god I'm so bad at games I need to severely git gud
So disappointing that people cannot help but spoil!
The puzzling out is a big part of the fun!
As someone who's done all the current blue content up to eden, I approve of your way of doing Gogo.
Honestly, unless you dip into Blue savage, there is really nothing you can do wrong as blue as long as it works.
High level raids as blue are the only thing where you'd want some spells for the same reason you want to know your class rotation in current sabage content.
No aetheric mimickry, no diamondback, zero insta-cast primal spells, still defeated Gogo. Cider is a more skilled BLU than most BLU mains.
People are buying Ethers in stacks of 99 because they are healing savage and ultimate :')
I have a few hundred in my bags myself. Sure they share cd with damage potions but mana is more important,
Now do Masked Carnivale 29 with the same spells
"go read a shampoo bottle or something" is such a funny dismissive insult lol
"Hi im Cider Spider and i am on a journey to get every avaliable achievement in FFXIV. This monumental grind takes countless hours in gameplay where it expand several years and im taking it on 1 week at time, so lets get started"
Mr. Cider Spider, I need you to know that the Dawntrail song you use for DCing I didn't even know was a DT song because I heard it in your videos first. I was so caught off guard when I heard it in DT MSQ recently that now when it plays in game it's the funniest shit for me. Also this Blue Mage video was very Solo Only of you and utterly delightful. Players like you make this game wonderful.
Wow congrats on the Gogo clear without Diamondback! Between that and White Wind being your only healing option I'm really impressed.
"I can't help but wonder how much faster it might be if I had better spells" – I won't tell you much about them since you don't want to be handheld (I respect that), but yes your DPS will significantly improve once you get more spells, especially any spell that runs entirely off its own cooldown instead of the global cooldown.
You learned the truth of Blue Mage: that fights are won or lost not on DPS, but rather mechanics! Congratulations!
"Four-faced" means you used at least four spells that came from your face, like your eyes or mouth. Outside of weekly challenges or achievements, it can basically be ignored.
I get that blue mage isn't your favorite with you being forced into it; but the Carnival is amazing content. Watching you manage stance-dancing/mp-management/dispells/pyretic/positioning etc. was really cool.
Truly I sympathize with the guide-pocalypse. People think they're being helpful, bless them. But I've also gotten backlash for telling people that it isn't an invitation to help when I say I'm about to go do a thing or figure something out.
There's really no adventure anymore.