How to solo any dungeon as BLU! (feat. The Burn + Cold Fog)

Hey folks! Sorry for the long hiatus for non-Carnivale videos, had some IRL stuff to handle. Here is a walkthrough for how I like to solo dungeons as BLU using Basic Instinct and Mighty Guard. In this video I run through The Burn solo and also show you how to get Cold Fog! Sorry the video is a bit long, I wanted to do the dungeon all in one cut and I intentionally made myself a bit weaker than normal. If you have any questions or want to see another dungeon, feel free to comment below!
00:48 Spell Overview
04:19 Dungeon Settings
05:00 Dungeon Start (Ultravibration Pull)
06:00 Pull without Ultravibration
08:00 First Boss
11:05 Second Boss
18:20 Third Boss
19:29 Cold Fog
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[@dahliahearts3054]

I watched this video when it came out and I wanted to circle back to tell you I did this thanks to you! I play at strange hours but I was getting frustrated not having Rose of Destruction and Cold Fog. I'd tried soloing The Burn before but kept dying on the first boss to vuln stacks, Missile made me able to actually clear this, thank you for your tips! You do a good service here haha.

[@BlueAcademy]

Nice! I'm glad I was able to help.

[@Curriation]

Thank you for your time and dedication to creating these guides. Especially for the Blue mage.

[@BlueAcademy]

My pleasure! I'm happy you're finding them helpful.

[@Icetin121]

For any who are still struggling with this post-stat squish, it is still doable! You don't have much room for error, though. The most dangerous attack is by far frost breath and I found the best way to deal with it was to ensure I reapplied gobskin after each rime wreath cast and heal aggressively. I also found that it was more useful to spam pom cure to out-heal the DoT and then keep re-applying the gobskin to soak the damage from the frostbite. Exuviation's heal just wasn't enough to keep me alive through DoT damage I'd sustain prior to the heal, the boss auto attacks, and the damage I took as I moved out of the puddle. Good luck!

[@vinny4765]

It'll help immensely if you use mimicry-tank. The effect of Gobskin is well over doubled if you're using that and it makes a world of difference. I know he showed off having mimicry but I don't believe he was using it in the vid.

[@Lukaz2009]

Just did it myself, and a spell that helped a lot was Devour. Gave a large enough buffer to make the heal checks not as tight.

[@roadrunne255]

Thank you for the help. Just did The Burn solo, it was definitely a trip.

[@technole]

When in doubt, there is always a Limsa Thot to mimicry

[@sabertooth5979]

thank god for the idle dancers

[@selay333]

Beautiful I’ll share this to some folks who have been interested in Blu recently.

[@J4kuZZi]

OMG thank you! I went in with two groups and spent an hour each, once as healer and once as tank and we couldn't beat last boss. Someone was always getting frozen and only 1-2 of us had raise each time. I saw this video and went in solo, and now I finally have 104 spells! Thank you thank you!

[@BlueAcademy]

Nice work!

[@craigfunk3453]

Yeah...its much easier getting fog and such with an actual tank but if the fights close on mist dragon just have people return and run like heck back to the arena. Most don't know or remember that being alive (even if not in the arena) and close enough lets you learn the spell regardless (I recall this quite clearly when getting tail screw back before exuviation was a spell to learn; 'glares at tail screw + dot' such a death sentence back then)

[@Crim_Zen]

I would likely take bad breath too for the blind for extra evasion and a damage reduction/ poison debuff that will always be applied when used. The damage debuff has saved me several times when fighting bosses since it does apply to bosses (the other parts of bad breath get resisted)

[@NaturalEntertainer85]

Thank you for the guide, seriously a tough fight - the #1 thing you said that saved me is using swiftcast Angel Snack the instant you get unfrozen -- then I also added Devour right after because it increases your HP by 20% + heals, then do Exuviation to heal/get rid of frostbite and run straight forward/behind the boss when they cast frost breath - and if the timing is right you'll still have 15-20% life afterwards then can heal up and you're safe. Thanks!

[@BlueAcademy]

The timing is definitely tough, but I'm glad you got it down!

[@cocomonk22]

Thanks, I was having a lot of trouble with it until I saw this comment

[@altercaze]

This tutorial is very very helpful!! Liked + Subscribed!

[@BlueAcademy]

Thanks for the sub!

[@Proggish]

A fellow Potato Pompadour Blue Mage?! Good show, good show!. Also thanks for the guide, love the discord and your guides!

[@kylestewart2829]

Liam doing god's work as usual

[@intronofficial5245]

Great job on the content, keep up the nice work!

[@BlueAcademy]

Much appreciated!

[@Cuthawolf]

I love doing BLU solo because I really enjoy just the ability to plan my approach and take it slower. But I also love how collaborative Blue Mage is, so I try and not be too introverted about it :p

[@ozziedarden1824]

This is still doable, as I just did it. I used tank mimic, devour to heal and keep HP up, Rehydration as my main heal. (It's SLOW but it will heal you up, you kind of have to use it proactively and predictively.) Gobskin was a must and reapplying almost every other spell. Goblin punch was main filler damage, breath of magic was the DOT i reapplied every minute. Primal Spells were main ogcd damage. I brought exuviation to heal frostbite. I also brought Pom Cure and Angel's Snack. These aren't optimal for tank mimic, but they did help with some emergency healing when I didn't have time for rehydration. Diamondback is still the way to survive the Cold Fog mechanic. You can't make many mistakes, but once you know the fight (watch this video or just die a few times) it's easy to avoid many of them. Best of luck!

[@Gridlock346]

The draw-in effect on Hydro Pull simply does not affect many enemies in instances. For The Burn I don't think it actually works at all, on any pull. It would be very helpful on the last pull in particular but it just doesn't work as advertised. It works in some dungeons and not others, it works on some enemies and not others in the same dungeons, I haven't been able to nail down a great system for being able to predict when it will work or not. It's still a 15-yalm, 220 potency AOE which is nothing to sneeze at though. Also, it's worth noting that every spell in the game can be learned solo now apart from Mustard Bomb and Peripheral Synthesis (I couldn't get past the Level Checker phase, too high of a damage check while forcing you to take a lot of time in Diamondback and Damage Down debuffs). I was able to do Alte Roite and Phantom Train without too much trouble, Tsukuyomi was a bit tougher and Suzaku is the hardest, but intentionally wiping a few times after the 3-minute mark to build up the Echo buff helps a lot. As you say, I wouldn't recommend it for someone just trying to learn the spells, but if you enjoy soloing stuff I found it to be a lot of fun.

[@BlueAcademy]

Yeah I think someone actually showed that you can solo every single spell, even Mustard Bomb.. it just took them 200-300 tries and involved some weirdness. It's definitely doable, but certainly not practical. It's fun for a challenge, though. I did a lot of them on my alt that way. :)

[@Gridlock346]

@@BlueAcademy That's amazing, do you know if there's a video or full description somewhere? I checked the discord channel but couldn't find anything.

[@Linuana]

Thank you so much for this video, I'll definitely try that myself cause I'm really scared of not having spells when I want to join the group and I feel bad for that. x)

[@Linuana]

@@Zolronak oh my god really? :0 I tried to get this spell as fast as possible. :0

[@SirVyre]

Just found your channel thanks to my fresh BLU static. We're readying ourselves for Turn 13 prog tomorrow. We downed Twintania and Nael tonight. \o/ I soloed all my spells up until Alphascape 3.0. The trick is to play bad and clip the boss with Glass Dance or Supranakha. :P I have been sleeping on Missile, I tell you h'wut!

[@Blazingbeard]

Picking up BLUE again with the moogle tomes event. I really dislike the Aurum grind (missle blasting bosses never gets old though). But I Love soloing (and grouping if people are in PF) and getting the spells. Thanks for the guide. Gonna try Cold Fog when I have gobskin.

[@Vengir]

Your recommendation have been helpful to me. I play as a F2P player, so my ability to form groups are somewhat limited. I only just started, but so far it was easier to me to just run the dungeon unsynched a couple of times instead of trying synched. For example, The Decaying Gourmand even at level 60 requires a Bristle+Off Guard+Moon Flute+Song of Torment combo to kill, and it only took me two kills to get its ability. Getting to Tonberry King at level 50 is easy, with every boss before it being susceptible to Missiles. Beating it with all those ads is a whole different story. I ended up going unsynched, took me more tries certainly, but run of the whole dungeon is only 7-8 minutes. Zu? Sure, you can just blast him with missiles if you only care about Song of Torment, but if you want to trigger Flying Frenzy, I could barely survive it at level 60. I did get Aetherial Mimicry and Pom Cure synched, though. Granted, the bosses themselves killed me, but I did survive long enough to kill the relevant ads. Synching also worked for Fire Angon.

[@loftyn7369]

tips for the final boss if you don't have gobskin (somehow) you can use chelonian gate for the ice breath, for the Vaporize don't waste mana with diamondback if you don't have gobskin to avoid the voln stack, after you get unfrozen use angel's snack then chelonian gate for the first breath attack then after swift to diamondback thats how i did it since the dmg is a bit too high OuO;

[@denisebardliving7994]

awesome video

[@christopherbullivant315]

Are Alex savage fight guides still in the works?

[@BlueAcademy]

Yup, finally making progress on getting out of a slump. :)

[@TheMNWolf]

Apparently this is only possible if you are absolutely perfect with your timings and positionings now :-( Second boss crit me and 1-shot me from full health with gobshield on.

[@milat9287]

Why do you bring Feather Rain over Eruption by the way? It looks like they end up doing the same damage in the end, but feather's just over time? Or am I getting something wrong here?

[@BlueAcademy]

DOTs scale a bit with SpS, so Feather Rain is technically very slightly more damage. In practice it doesn't matter in a meaningful way, but that's the reason.

[@coolhandluke9783]

How do you have so much HP??? I am in ilevel 400 and only hit 15.4k HP???

[@diegogeraldo7777]

This video was made in Shadowbringers before the stat squish made in endwalker, everything is the same just lower numbers

[@brianbierlein4747]

Trying to do this in Gubal Hard to learn Magic Hammer and the trash mobs are doing tons of damage to me. I can Ram's Voice them to slow them down but even with Angel Snack and Pom Cure I can't heal fast enough. What am I doing wrong? I'm Level 70 with the full mirage set and wielding Incendiario. I am melded too with Crit/Det. And I am mimicking healer.

[@BlueAcademy]

Are you remembering Mighty Guard? Even with a ton of enemies that should be fine; Basic Instinct makes Pom Cure functionally a Benediction so it's pretty safe overall..

[@BlakeWhoLivesAtHome]

Bro how do I get primals in the first place assuming nobody wants to run a synced trial with me

[@ridleyroid9060]

This is friggin infuriating. I hate every second of doing this and it's practically a must.

[@DanielPrice93]

On those second mobs you would pull after you would ram/ultra vib the first mob why not ram/swift cast/ ultra vib or since ultra vib was on cool down would swift cast not work

[@BlueAcademy]

Yeah Ultravibration was on cooldown. Normally I would just kill them using primal spells or self-destruct or something, but I intentionally took a very limited loadout.

[@AaronWGaming]

Angels snack requires level 70 blue mage

[@RRKai]

I try over 10 runs now. End up can’t survive due to update hp from endwalker. My hp is 15,225 which die in 1 hit after ice break. Sad

[@BlueAcademy]

As much as you want to think it's because of Endwalker, it certainly is not. It still works the same as before, you just need to mitigate appropriately.

[@RRKai]

@@BlueAcademy What I've done Gobskin > Diamondback > Ice jail break > re-apply Gobskin > pom cure (some run try angel snack) > Tank buster > Pom Cure > cast ice > I got ~13,000 dmg + Ice dot 2,000 die before I can dispell my self. Same when I try "Burden of the sun" May be I need to upgrade gear? Got lucky last night that got blue party to clear this spell. 12 more to go. :) Thanks for your support as always.

[@BlueAcademy]

@@RRKai Angel's Snack is extremely helpful for it, Devour can give you a bit of a buffer, but quick cleanse with Exuviation is the most important part probably.

[@RRKai]

@@BlueAcademy Wow never think of "Devour" I will try as soon as I back home for J-Kick. :)

[@chizik7777]

is this pre stat squish? i have 14k hp and keep getting destroyed by the TB D: edit: i actually just got it, i'm terrible at blue mage and need to mind my gobskin better

[@Spyderskorpian]

*sigh* Four runs with my Blue Mage, seeing Cold Fog every time, and I still don't have the spell. 😑

[@BlueAcademy]

Do it synced.

[@Spyderskorpian]

@@BlueAcademy After eight attempts, I finally formed a party and got it. 😅 Apparently, some of the abilities in Stormblood have lower rates of popping. I didn't have this problem soloing ARR and HW spells. Hopefully, this helps people.

[@BlueAcademy]

@@Spyderskorpian It has to do with the star rating for the spell, but ultimately it's still RNG.

[@Spyderskorpian]

@@BlueAcademy No kidding? I didn't know that! Thank you! 😊

[@TheZenaku69]

used this video to try to get genbu, keep dying to 2nd boss. gave up.

[@marcodiaz4277]

excellent guide! I just have one question! How do you activate the option to see the enemy's current life in the target bar [115k / 115k] and the line that appears in the casting bar (I want to believe that it marks the exact moment to cast the spell without interrupt) ??

[@BlueAcademy]

Ah, this is using.. unsupported things. I should probably remove that for future videos.. if you ask in Discord folks will share but I shouldn't directly here.

[@marcodiaz4277]

@@BlueAcademy Oh Shit.. That sounds bad lol

[@BlueAcademy]

Ah, it's not really bad but it's definitely not officially supported. :)

[@christopherbullivant315]

@@marcodiaz4277 It's really not a bad thing (as long as you don't use it to harass people), more of a "don't ask, don't tell" thing on SE's part. Ask in any big XIV discord and you'll get all the info you need.

[@Doodert]

Is this still do-able? Been having a heck of time with the first buster right out of the mist phase.

[@BlueAcademy]

Yep! Still doable. It's always been spicy coming out of the mist phase, you basically have to spam Exuviation to cleanse yourself and heal. You can use defensive spells to help mitigate, too.

[@GreigaBeastDS]

Can you solo trials like this?

[@BlueAcademy]

As I say in the video you *can*, but it's generally more trouble than it's worth. Finding/forming a group in PF is definitely the way to go.

[@GreigaBeastDS]

@@BlueAcademy many thanks

[@bezu6784]

Thanks, this helps a lot! Small nitpick though, angel's snack requires a level 70 BLU I think not 70 spells

[@BlueAcademy]

Yes, you are right! I picked it up day one and must have misread and never corrected myself. Now no one has an excuse to not have it. :)

[@bezu6784]

@@BlueAcademy Cries in free trial

[@Macswaggens]

Angel snack is from level 70 not 70 spells

[@copixel37]

Every video I watch every guide I see it says bring primals get primals are there specific spells and what is a primal

[@BlueAcademy]

They're any spell you learn from Primal enemies! Eruption, Shock Strike, Nightbloom, etc.

[@copixel37]

@Hakanie nobody can give me a list of spells I don’t get it

[@ยิ้มหน่อยอย่าเครียด]

How to get 40000+ HP . I'm level 70 item level 400, but my HP is only 15000+.

[@BlueAcademy]

This is before the Endwalker stat squish. 15000 is what we're at now and that's fine.

[@nekroz_of_super_dora3477]

Now if only doing it solo would guarantee the drop T_T Solo’d Swallow’s Compass with nothing to show for it. No Malediction, no Both Ends, and especially not the caster chestpiece

[@BlueAcademy]

If you make sure it's level synced then it is guaranteed.

[@Luxai]

This is why we are not allowed in dungeons.