Blm/sch

so i gota know what everybody thinks about when the level cap hits 99 and we get the sch spell icestorm as a subjob which will add a nice bit of dmg to our ice spells with elemental obi, sor. tonbans, and twilight cape, so i gota ask will this be the new sub job to out do rdm sub ur thoughts?

No

Ice will always "murder" thunder anyway...because only like 2% of all mob types are weak to thunder and 3% are weak to other elements....the other 95% are all weak to ice.....

im pretty sure "weak to" means less chance of resist and nothing to do with dmg but oh well

Imo they will necessarily have to do something about thunderstorm. There's no point in granting the other ones and skipping thunder. It's not a one off spell since it belongs to a family of spells. It would be as if they forgot to add Thunder V by the time we reach 99.
Aurora and Voidstorm can be considered somewhat different since there are no real Light/Dark nukes for BLM. Aurorastorm on WHM would be simply amazing though.

i still get more dmg on Blizzard IV than Thunder IV because of resistance...if it resists it will obviously do less damage....but if you hit something with something its weak to it will do more dmg....(Ex: Colibri and piercing + penta thrust = big damage spike.....Colibri strong to ice + heavenly strike = gimp heavenly strike etc.etc.etc.)

but i still used thunder IV and blizzard IV together at 75 cause they where the highest DD spells for solo at that level....combined with AMII to lower appropriate resistances :X

EDIT: wait...Colibri are strong to wind weak to ice right >_>?

in movies they call this a plot hole....in other places its called bieng inconsistent :/

but either way....i still cant wait for Blizzaja Thundaja and Thunder V......just cause im a perfectionist and Beyond + Blizzaja = DETHGA!

magic accuracy raises the damage range while MAB boosts possible damage to reach that range...and depending on resists and other checks determines damage.....works the same for phys and mag rally...just a little difference in both checks

yea...but my original point is that if its less resistant...you wont get resisted as often and it wont deal low damage as often...think the only difference between physical damage type resistance and magic elemental resistance is that physdmg is constant...while magical resistance randomly procs.....but meh....

anyway, if something is resistant of course it will do less damage...and i checked...monitors are weak to lightning but strong to nothing....so the random freeze II resists down to 340 where like out of nowhere....specially with beyond and kirin....+ the extra stuff

EDIT!: wrong forum for that last part....but meh it fits <_< >_>

Unless you're actually fighting very strong stuff (10~15+ levels higher), it's pretty easy to cap magic acc on whatever spell unless the mob is specifically strong to it though. And physical acc has about the same randomness as magic resist too, they're much more equivalent than physical dmg resistance/weaknesses.

I don't know about you all but I use /sch in aby and /rdm outside, but I don't really have a issue with magic and not having phanlax is not really a issue. I like having my desert boots with sandstorm and I can't wait for the new storms they give us with the new Ja's as well I will be excited to see my sublimination hopefully give me more mp, and as well being able to use more strategms than I do at this time.

Being a elvaan is not ideal for blm but I wasn't planning on being a mage in the beginning but I like this /sub alot right now and I only see it being better but with /rdm also rising with the level increase that job might still be superior for awhile