The Beast Within -- A Guide To Blue Mage

The jobs on the sets are based, by default, on the ark angels jobs.
But there are additional and newer jobs that they kinda sticked in there the best they could.

It's not exactely like that, but aa jobs is the core on which they built, let's say

You ever want a set with TA+34% and DT-35%? Because that seems pretty notable. BiS Meva on (nearly) every single piece, more MDB than Malignance, more accuracy than Malignance, WAY more HP than malignance, and close-enough-to-BiS macc, while still retaining all those defensive stats.

But yeah, they ALSO added enspell damage on there, so it's trash.

I think it's worth noting, at least what I see on BG, is that the TA aug caps at R25 instead of R30. 230k RP less than having to hit R30, PER item...

I mean, I get it. Each set has 4 'unique' stats (2 on the base gear and 2 from augments), and 2/4 for the BLU set specifically enhance spells that BLU doesn't get, and the 3rd is fast cast. So BLU really only gets that TA boost, but it's a *really good* boost. This new set will mostly beat out Malignance, and that's a big deal.

Some jobs really lucked out with the new gear, but a bunch of them have some weird trade off stats to accommodate other jobs, so it's not just BLU. Just count yourself lucky SE didn't put BLU on the mage gear.

I'm interested in this; where did you find the aug/RP info?

I think every set besides the mage set got a pretty decent amount of multi attack and the other sets all get additional melee focused stats like phiscal damage limit, store tp and crit chance on top.

The main critique here is that this set primarily plays into RDMs strengths. RDM simply doesn't need more buffs like this. Out of the jobs on the sworn armor set I'd argue BLU is in the worst spot and would have deserved more attention.

While you can make a argument for putting phalanx on it considering the other perks like FC/-DT and decent defensive stats you still have to admit something other than spell enhancement damage would have fit better and cater more to all jobs on the list.

BLU would have fit just as well on most of the other sets, the only one more disappointing would have been the mage set because it would compete with empy +3.

Lol I would never want BLU to be on different set. Trust set is by far the best one with Mercy being second best. Justice probably 3rd and Hope 4th.

The amount of defensive stats on Trust set alongside that Triple attack is just borderline broken. Especially on jobs that also has Sakpata/Malignance hands and Null back is bis for them. The amount of meva in this set is ridiculous. Not to mention all the other uses for this set like casting buffs, debuffs with massive acc/macc and cooldown reduction thx to Fast Cast (you can reduce cooldown on TP reset spells for example). It's bis tanking set. Mostly bis idle. I think some pieces can even be bis for white wind with that much HP.

And all that TPing and casting while being the most tanky is just pure win. Having sword enhancement isn't perfect, but having something like sTP instead would make this set super unbalanced vs other 4.

https://www.bg-wiki.com/ffxi/Trust_Armor_Set

List of all Limbus gear can be found here -
https://www.bg-wiki.com/ffxi/Category:Limbus#SU4/SU5_Armor_Sets

(shoutout to whoever updated the wiki, thank you)

doesn't need to be STP or a offense focused stat at all.
looking at the set something like SIRD would have made sense, maybe conserve MP, SED feels shoehorned in.