Blue Mage DPS Spells and Moon Flute Opener

[@AcesSuited]

Hey, I know this video is pretty old by now, but I wanted to add that I've found success with using The Threepenny Turtles (masked carnivale instance 5) as a striking dummy for practicing the opener as I've never ran through all the Coils myself. It's got an electric wall, the turtles have a vuln down buff that means you can wail on them all you want, loading in resets all your cooldowns, and they don't hit back.

[@dio7288]

Sophia EX is also pretty good, just put on Mighty Guard and practice your opener, when you fuck up right at the beginning already you can just jump down and everything resets

[@Chamira]

nice tips! im struggling to get all my spells in the moonflute timer but ill keep practicing

[@babusan0]

Grazie.

[@Belph-ny7qr]

Using Crit/Det and have tried the rotation. Almost gave but but eventually got it. Thank you! I'm feeling like imma big boi now :3

[@BlueAcademy]

Nice work! It definitely takes practice for it to become natural.

[@JackJackoff88]

awesome work ! glad i found this channel

[@BlueAcademy]

Welcome aboard!

[@melonrats]

All my homies cast moon flute

[@Bearpigman]

So if you start phantom flurry and go into waning one second later it'll finish the rest of the attack? Oh snap I didn't know that

[@BlueAcademy]

Yup! And it even snapshots your buffs (Moon Flute).

[@Bearpigman]

@@BlueAcademy that's so good, in my messing around with it I was trying to make a rotation where I started PF with 3-5 seconds on moonflute to try to squeeze that last hit in but this is much better

[@medigoomnis]

Man, you got me saying supernicus now instead of surpanakha...haha

[@elizabethw7698]

I use pretty close to this rotation, but I've found with some tricky moving of the spells, I can fit a Boost spell in. I use: Pre-Whistle, Pull-Tingle, then: Moon Flute > J Kick > Boost > NightBloom > Matra Magic > Spell Shock > Swiftcast > Triple Trident > Feather Dance > Surpranakha x4 > The Rose of Destruction > Feather Rain (on a macro to hit target) > Phantom Flurry.

[@masakoiris990]

Don't you mess up your Pre-Whistle by Boosting/Bristling and Matra Magic-ing first? You kinda just throw half your combo from Triple Trident away by doing it in that order since Boost/Bristle overwrites Whistle.

[@Sky-Dweller]

Yea masako is right, that boost messes up your whole whistle tingle combo

[@elizabethw7698]

@@Sky-Dweller Incorrect. The pre-pull whistle is for J-Kick. Trident never recieves a whistle bonus, whether with my opener, or Blue Academy's opener. Boosting Matra Magic is the single best spell that can be boosted (except SD/final Sting).

[@masakoiris990]

@@elizabethw7698 By that logic, Nightbloom is boosted in your rotation, not Matra Magic. The logic's wrong anyway, Whistle and Bristle both apply solely to Spells. Any primal oGCD is classified as an Ability in-game, and so do not get the effects. Not only that, but the Moon Flute opener showed in the video already Bristles Matra Magic. Effectively, your rotation makes it so that you don't get any effect of Whistle at all, because you overwrite the still active buff.

[@Sky-Dweller]

Elizabeth W no

[@sakuram69]

I love the solo capabilities of blu, but I kind of wish so much of our power didn't come from blowing ourselves up to cheese fights. That said, there's no way I'll ever be good enough to solo some of the stuff I've seen some players do, such as Tsukuyomi, Suzaku, Doomtrain and Omega lol I do wish I could solo some of the 70s omega raids, though. No one seems to do them anymore, even with the release of 5.45. As someone with social anxiety disorder and a fear of in-game harassment (which is stupidly common in every online game), I kind of shy away from doing these raids as they come out or in traditional parties. I would love to see someone figure out a way to solo all of the sigmascape and up to Omega, though. Excellent guide for a DPS load out though! BTW, is there anytime the Doomtrain spell is relevant? At all? I have never seen a situation where it could be useful, or at least am aware of it being useful enough to take up a slot.

[@BlueAcademy]

Saintly Beam has some use in places like Orbonne Monastery, and even on Phantom Train ghosts.. overall it doesn't have that much of a use, though.

[@damonholderness700]

What data center are you on?

[@skyler9643]

@@damonholderness700 Check the description

[@damonholderness700]

@@skyler9643 Er sorry I was asking the commenter Gene. I have a small group of friends that does a lot of blue mage content. ´^w^`

[@skyler9643]

@@damonholderness700 Oh my bad. I thought you were asking Blue Academy something already in the description.

[@adecc9909]

Would Basic Instict and Mighty Guard be worth using when soloing bosses?

[@BlueAcademy]

When soloing absolutely!

[@GayLPer]

I soloed O1N using Basic Instinct and Mighty Guard, with Healer mimicry and Pom Cure as well.

[@Fawanfr]

might be a little late here but is inferno better than feather rain for the crit/det set?

[@BlueAcademy]

Nope.

[@JackJackoff88]

another thing id like to ask , after doing your opener . do u just use the ogcd off cd or just wait them all to come back up and do the same thing again?

[@BlueAcademy]

This has a slightly longer answer, but in general you'll hit things as they come up. If you're using the SpS/Det set, you'll use Triple Trident whenever it's off cooldown. If you're using Crit/Det, you'll wait for the next Moon Flute window. For both sets, you'll want to fit all your spells into it again, so you'll hold things like Matra Magic, Nightbloom, etc. until they're all up and you can use them under Moon Flute.

[@skortyspice]

Is there a reason we take feather rain over the ifrit spell? I don't remember if we always took feather rain or not

[@BlueAcademy]

The difference is extremely small but Feather Rain does more damage on average due to it having 3 separate hits and how DOTs scale with SpS.

[@skortyspice]

@@BlueAcademy oh yeah, with the amount of spell speed blue melds that makes a lot of sense!

[@oriain81]

Are previous stages of the carnival easier now with new spells and gear or is it synced? Great video. Blue is looking really good right now.

[@Amtyk]

I would say yes. I got all three perfect run achievements this patch. Siegfried is still the hardest in my opinion and it's made way easier just with Nightbloom and Flurry. I was consistently killing him and all three adds in 4:30 mins. The Deltascape spells for ice and fire targeted abilities help too. With 400 iLevel poetic gear you can easily pass DPS checks.

[@BlueAcademy]

The previous stages are easier since we now have more overall damage. Some of the earlier stages can be cheesed with Ram's Voice and Ultravibration. Overall the most difficult stages (25-31, except 27 which can be cheesed with Hydro Pull) are about the same, we just kill them faster.

[@oriain81]

@@Amtyk Thanks 👍

[@oriain81]

@@BlueAcademy Thank you 👍

[@EzkaTheKingOfBeasts]

Is it worth it to moon flute outside of the opener every 2 minutes (other than when you can kill with it before waning nocturne such as with final sting)? 30s after the opener you will have feather rain and rose of destruction up (plus your filler spell). 60s after the opener you will have feather rain, rose of destruction, j kick, shock strike, and night bloom will have just ended so you can bristle + song of torment (plus your filler spell). Or are these not worth getting hit by waning nocturne for? Also what should you do with glass dance when it is up? Since it is a 90s cd and is not affected by spell speed like triple trident is, do you wait until the next opener to use glass dance?

[@BlueAcademy]

It's worth it to do it every 2 minutes for Nightbloom, Surpanakha, etc. With Glass Dance, you can do it on CD or hold for Moon Flute -- it comes out to the same damage. For Triple Trident, if you're running SpS/Det and have it on a 80s CD, use it on CD. Otherwise, hold it for Moon Flute.

[@harryrundle7897]

@@BlueAcademy If running sps/det, would it be worthwhile to use Moon Flute to refresh Song of Torment and to use Triple Trident and Glass Dance?

[@cheese616]

I’m finding a lot of problems trying to fit the opener in my crit/det build. I using controller and feather rain really lags in my opener to try and click it. I even macroed it and it still doesn’t weave smoothly. Is there something better I could do?

[@BlueAcademy]

You could consider switching to Eruption since it has slightly less animation lock. Melding some SpS might work, too.

[@ZetoTarken]

@@BlueAcademy You could also shift the J-Kick to after Tingle instead of after Moonflute. You lose 150 pot but since you sometimes have to save J-Kick/Quasar for the utility, you won't always be using it in your 2mins anyway and that gives you one less clip in your flute window. The freed up clip could let you fit the Rose over Sonic Boom as well. Boom over Rose is effectively 105 pot lost so definitely the most efficient drop but if you want consistency with your flute windows, just having JKick never in it could be good for muscle memory. I'd put the spell alteration priority for the flute window as: Slot Eruption>Feather Rain Use Sonic Boom>Rose(-105 pot) JKick before Flute(-150 pot) Mix and Match the above till you're fitting everything cleanly. Personally I cut Rose for Sonic Boom and double weave on that, it's the smoothest adjustment you can make imo. Also it lets me cut swift from the flute as well and still feel comfortable enough. Which is nice for keeping raise available and more or less keeps the opener the same between DPS and off-healer

[@cheffdonty]

am i good to drop glass dance and song of torment to fit more tank spells ? obv i don't keep matra magic either

[@THiiro]

What tank spells do you have? I can compare it to mine to see if I can help

[@cheffdonty]

@@THiiro cactguard, chillonian gate, frog legs, mighty guard, bad breath, devour

[@THiiro]

@@cheffdonty Cactguard is pretty useless as it's only good mitigation when you are in tank mimicry, but since you are generally the only tank mimicry in the party outside of some fights you can drop it since you can't use it on yourself. Frog legs is again very fight specific, it doesn't work the same as provoke as you don't actually gain aggro from it, it instead just puts you at the top of the list which you can lose again quickly since it didn't draw any aggro. You're better off spamming white wind or some aggro generation moves like "the look". It's useful for some fights where the boss targets the top 2 on the enmity list but generally you just have the "off tank" so to speak take it as a fight specific one off

[@THiiro]

Also never drop song of torment as dots are very important for a blue mages damage, if you drop that you lose 60 seconds of DoT every 2 minutes which adds up quickly

[@cheffdonty]

@@THiiro yeah i was considering dropping feather rain to get song of torment back. I'll probably also need to make room for bristle too. I'll probably follow your recommendations whenever i find myself the only tank mimicking blue mage though

[@DinksDaLopp]

Last video I saw eruption and feather dance were preference. Did something change?

[@BlueAcademy]

Yeah, there was some (incorrect) old math about Feather Rain only being better after a certain about of SpS. As it turns out, as long as both DoT ticks of Feather Rain hit it will always be better than Eruption.

[@luizeduardo1706]

How manage agro during pull or during the fight with the Tank recommended spells without white wind and the look?

[@BlueAcademy]

If you absolutely need big threat, you can take White Wind and use that on pull. Otherwise, your normal Primal spells and Sonic Boom should be enough to hold threat.

[@Pinky-0-1-0]

Actually, important question, does bristle stack with Nightbloom like it does with Song of Torment? I looked at the opener and im thinking it doesn't.

[@zackr.7628]

No it doesn't. Bristle and Whistle only increase the potency of gcd spells, not of ogcds

[@BlueAcademy]

Zack is correct. Bristle only affects "spells," and Nightbloom is an "ability."

[@arbiter771]

im kinda new so this might be dumb to ask but when moon flute ends what happens? it says you can't use anything so is there a way to prevent it? or whats the catch

[@BlueAcademy]

Nope! You just stand around and look cute for 15 seconds.

[@arbiter771]

@@BlueAcademy So should you always be using it on bosses? or only when you know you can survive 15 seconds of punishment

[@Antiyoukai]

@@arbiter771Your healer Blu is the one keeping you alive so it's fine.

[@helstrix_yt]

doesn't Bristle stack with Night loom?

[@BlueAcademy]

No. Bristle only affects spells, not abilities.

[@ildejohnortiz7284]

what's the reason why we don't use a 220 potency gcd for between bursts, like abyssal/blaze/tatami etc.? also, i had no idea cold fog was spammable when it procd!

[@BlueAcademy]

We use Sonic Boom because it's a faster cast so we can weave with it. If you have the spots, you can pick up a 220 GCD spell as well.

[@EliakKingdos]

No DB? Did they fix the problem where any Blue can get hit by random tank buster? Coz I mean Blues are considered dps no matter what mimicry you have on; That is what I ment by random tank busters type atks.

[@BlueAcademy]

Tank busters typically aren't random, they'll be whoever has the highest threat. For fights where there is the possibility of you taking something like a tank buster, then yes you would take Diamondback in one of the utility slots.

[@Darkgale69]

I saw someone destroying fates for memories with what seemed to be summoning a big block of ice, what spell is this?

[@BlueAcademy]

I'm really not sure.. we don't have a "big block of ice" spell. Shot in the dark, but was it Choco Meteor? It's red, but if you're colorblind I could see that being mistaken. It is probably our best FATE spell.

[@Darkgale69]

​@@BlueAcademy yeah it was choco meteor thank you and unsure why it was discoloured

[@ravenheartix6629]

everyone is asking about blue mage stuff, and I'm here wondering about your reskinned UI?

[@haxprocess06]

skotlex material UI

[@elizabethw7698]

Liam, you might want to take this down and re-record without the mod installed. I don't mind it, but you can never be too careful.

[@BlueAcademy]

Ah, true, I forgot to cut that out. It should be fine in this case since it's just me and I'm clearly not harassing anyone over their DPS.. but I'll try to remember it for next time.

[@Pinky-0-1-0]

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