Bluemage Hotbar Tips

You get 5 Bluemage Presets that now swap out both spells equipped AND HOTBARS removing the need to use hotbar copy commands from old classjobs, or reset up hotbars all the time. They did this awhile back, but I’ve honestly not messed with it since the last time there had been a Bluemage update.

I find however that sometimes in the heat of things, I sometimes accidentally save over my presets when I’m trying to just load them and It is really frustrating, so I’ve designed a few macros to help me avoid making that mistake, plus it makes switching presets quicker.

Preset Switching Macros
/bluespellbook preset 1
/e Blue Preset SOLO equipped
/micon “Soul of the Blue mage” item

/bluespellbook preset 2
/e Blue Preset PARTY TANK equipped


/bluespellbook preset 3
/e Blue Preset PARTY HEALER equipped


By using this, I only go into the spellbook when I’m changing out spells, and when I do actually want to “SAVE” the preset.

(I realize this sounds like a dim problem, but when I’m in a hurry and just trying to load things, the amount of times I’ve accidentally selected to save over it instead, is embarrassing!)

Blue Mage spells / The Jack of Coins

So off and on this past week a few of us have been running around on our Blue Mages, collecting spells. It has been fun, and aggrivating at times to say the least, lol. Mostly been working helping people get spells that I actually already have, but last night we actually was worked on one that I needed.  Squeekers, Jedafu, Velsol, and I took a trip to Outer Horratio Ruins to learn Bludgeon. I actually learned it on the very first Cardigan that used the spell, so that was cool. We pulled some more while we were there to try and help Jedafu learn the spell.  While we were there, Some high level Monk/Ninja kept running through and zoning all the cardigans, which was very annoying. As they would pop, we’d pull them for Jedafu as soon as we could before the guy would run through again.  It was a couple times of that that we ended up getting a hint as to what was actually happening, when we saw the Jack of Coins NM.  At the time we thought he was being a jerk and despawning everything to spawn this NM, however as I look up info on this particular NM, it appears that maybe he was just trying to complete a Windurst mission and was zoning for his life.. lol.  Both Squeekers and I felt the wrathe of Jack of Coins and were sent back to our homepoints.  He defeated Katella with Thunder II for 249 points, when I only had around 120 to begin with.. lol. I ran but there was no hiding, and no use. 

 

It turns out he is a level 62  NM that is specifically spawned for Windurst Mission 6-1: Full Moon Fountain  see here for details: http://wiki.ffxiclopedia.org/Windurst_Mission_6-1

After the NM moved on – not sure if someone else defeated him, or if he left the area we were at. We ended up getting Jedafu’s Bludgeon, and headed off towards Giddeus. There are so many different rumors and ideas floating around, if you have to have hate on you to learn it, if you don’t, etc… I’m not sure that it really says for sure anywhere, mostly I go by what it says on http://wiki.ffxiclopedia.org/Main_Page , but everyone has thier ideas, so I spent the rest of the night farming Giddeus Bees while they tried to get thier spell.

 I think tonight if we do this again, I may head over to Konstat Highlands  with my NPC while they are trying to learn Head Butt, as it didn’t appear I was actually helping that much. Maybe with my NPC, I could get Healing Breeze before they want to head back to Sandy for Blood Drain and Blastbomb (Which I also already have).

Event – Bastok Collar

Searching far and wide for Bluemage spells, landed me in Bastok. A group from our LS had been working on gathering Spells, so we had spent some time In Bastok’s area trying to help some of them learn “Head Butt” and “Sandspin” and “Sprout Smack” and “Sheep Song”, I actually already had all of these, but was there to help anyway.  After people had to go, I was talking to my friend Mieka, and she was getting ready to help one of her friends do the event in Bastok, so I asked if I could join along as wanted to get the Republic Stables Collar that gave you teleports to the Bastok Chocobo Stables. I don’t get out to Bastok very often, so thought it would be useful in the future for when I simply want to turn in Alchemy tests items and it the need should arise to be in Bastok Quickly.

We ended up with 4 red mages and me on whm. We decided to go after the Mithra Armor. Now when I had done this in Sandy, there were 20 -30 +  people all working on this one, so I was wondering how this was really going to go. But we had a game plan,  the rdm’s would buff up, with thier defense spells (SS, Phlanax, Blink) and I would buff up with just Stoneskin and Blink and Reraise as well as Protect & Shell.   The idea was that we’d take turns tanking, and once she’d get through your defenses, you’d zone and someone else would tank. They would then come back out, heal and buff back up, and talk to the moogle to have their level capped, and go back to work on the Mithra Armor.  When we got into doing this, it actually went relatively well, although it took a long time when you only hit for 1 point, maybe 2 if you are lucky.  Long story short, we defeated the Mithra, and I got the Bastok teleport collar.. /cheer

Event & leveling etc..

So, I actually participated in the “Feast of Swords” Event – for information on how to do it check it out at: http://wiki.ffxiclopedia.org/Feast_of_Swords_2007/Guide

I ended up with the Wooden, Lotus Katana, and Shinai, as well as the Kingdom Stables Collar (10 Teleports to the San d’Oria Chocobo Stables) . I would like to see if I could get to could get the Federation (Windurst) and the Republic (Bastok) one as well. I went out to Windurst twice, however no one was out there doing the event, so I think if I want them, I’m going to have to see if I can round up some friends to go with me. 

 I partied in the dunes with Kauri (DRK) & Kundala  (RNG) & Velsol (MNK or SAM), and ended up getting my PLD to 18.  It was a total pick up party, no real healer, just a bard, and me with cures, but it was very cool.

Saturday we teamed up with Pitbull, our Galka friend that hasn’t been on for awhile, in hopes of getting him up to 30 so he can pick up dark knight because that is his goal.  Once he gets caught up, He is going to work with Blindrage’s PLD, and my Bard. 

We also did two different Kazham Key runs that day, one for Blindrage, and then later on in the day for Talishe and Pitbull. On our way to Mhaura, we came across the Sea Horror, not realizing at first that it was an NM. We figured it out when it actually aggro’d Kinkykitty who was on her 66 rdm. She started fighting it, and there was little damage happening, so I threw on Reraise, and began trying to keep her healed as well as clubbing away at it. We ended up getting it down to 1/2 its life, when it did Hundred Fists and defeated Kinkykitty, then me, then found its way to Blindrage and took him out as well.  I had reraise up, but couldn’t take it, as the creature didn’t despawn. Once we got to Mhaura, we were thrown to the docks, where I guess because we had zoned, my reraise option no longer was available.. ><.  Luckily the second trip on the boat had no Sea Horror ‘s to deal with.

Sunday morning, Kauri helped Pittbull get a little closer to his goal, and in the process came across two different Orc NM’s. They were: http://wiki.ffxiclopedia.org/Meteormauler_Zhagtegg ,  and  http://wiki.ffxiclopedia.org/Tigerbane_Bakdak . Kauri did end up obtaining the Tigerhunter axe from the Tigerbane Bakdak

Sunday the static started off rocky, mostly because of some confusion with timezones etc.. (sorry guys) but we ended up working on our 20’s static instead of our 60’s this week. I ended up with a 25 Pup, and the next time we party on these jobs, it most likely will be in Kazham. Its been awhile since I’ve been there.

After Static was over, Kinkykitty helped Jedafu, Velsol and I go try and learn a few Blue magic spells in Ghelsba Outpost, and Fort Ghelsba. All three of us ended up learning blastbomb, and Velsol was able to learn Blood Drain. I already had it. Blu is fun, its just really time consuming. I think the next spell I need to go after is Bludgeon and Healing Breeze.

Blue Mage / slight rant

Healing breeze….

That was was our reason for being in Tahrongi Canyon last night, and despite the fact that we attacked over 20 mobs, we still didn’t end up with it, but we had fun anyway, It’s a good job to duo or pt with other bluemages, and alot of fun with friends. lol..

Blue Mage can be really fun, and really frustrating at the same time.  I do like though that it is really tied into the time and effort you put into it. You can’t just run out and buy the spells, and if you do it correctly, you go back and forth between exping and spell collecting, making for a nice change of pace… It seems to be one of the only jobs where if you want to be really good at it, it takes more than just having the gil to buy stuff, and trying to speed level, like so many do with thier jobs now. With Blu, if you level too quickly, it can actually make it more difficult to learn some of the lower level, yet useful spells. If you kill the mob too quick, or if you can’t hardly touch the mob because you are too high, then you aren’t feeding it tp so that it will do its move… and if it doesn’t do the move, you can’t learn it.  It’s kind of hard to go backwards with this job. And.. metallicbody (stoneskin) at lvl 8!!! who can argue with that 🙂

It makes me kind of snicker at the people who rushed to get this new job to 75. The whole essence of the job is the spells, so what good are you if you are a level 75 blu with only a few spells? What is the hurry for people.. don’t you know that the fun is in the journey, not in the end??  Ya they have added stuff so that at 75 you can gain some more attributes.. but then what?

 Just on to the next job? Relax a little enjoy life , and enjoy the game. I like to level just like everyone else, but I think I will actually be a little sad when my whm get’s to 75, because there will be less opportunity to learn the job & play the game, as I most likely won’t be an endgame  gamer. My real life obligations will not allow for me to spend enough time to accomplish what the endgame stuff needs, so I will be on the outside looking in if I want to play whm by then.  ;;

I talked to someone the other day who told me it took only one month from start of a job to 75 of that job.  My jaw dropped. I honestly can say that I would most likely not be excited to have someone like that in my party. The speed leveling trend makes for really newbish 75’s who have an attitude that they have accomplished something great even though they just hurried thru the job, not bothering to understand it nor doing thier best at being a team member. And then because they have a “75” lvl job, that makes them “experts” on how everything, and everyone should play thier characters.

pet peeve #1  Speed leveling / completely powerleveled players who are hand held throughout the entire game.

pet peeve #2  People who invite people to parties, then whine at them about thier subjob choices, when they saw what they were before they even invited them.  (sorry throw-back thought from the last party I had with my friend who was rdm/nin and was getting flack for it). 

ok.. /rant off… sorry.

We’ll probably try again for healing breeze tonight, so hopefully I’ll have good news to post in the blog later. ^^