{"id":151,"date":"2006-09-27T22:05:47","date_gmt":"2006-09-28T03:05:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staronion.com\/maiev\/nfblog\/?page_id=151"},"modified":"2010-07-15T00:25:43","modified_gmt":"2010-07-15T05:25:43","slug":"maitalus-blue-mage-guide","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.staronion.com\/maiev\/nfblog\/?page_id=151","title":{"rendered":"Blue Mage Guide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A note to my readers:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>This article is my opinion of how a Blue Mage should be played or how I analyze the statistics\/methods of playing the job. It is in no way the standard or the way it should be played. I respect other&#8217;s opinion and preference so take this just another way of playing Blue Mage.<\/li>\n<li>I will constantly add and modify if they are necessary &#8216;-&#8216; but information here should be complete. (IMO) XD<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Welcome!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m glad you found your way to some-what the MaiTalu&#8217;s Blue-Mage Guide. Anyway, on the next few page, you will be reading about the way how MaiTalu play as a Blue-Mage DD (Damage Dealers) backed up with statistics and analysis. Whatever happens, I hope this was an interesting read to you. Before you start, lets watch some vids &#8216;-&#8216; (Be vary warned, includes spoilers for the Blue-Mage quests; around 90 seconds.)<\/p>\n<p>[Update] Before you keep reading, do remember that this guide was written on September 27, 2006 and \/dnc, campaign and all other new content was not available, so please do take that into consideration while reading this guide.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"350\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/AQOMRl9UYuQ\"><\/param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/AQOMRl9UYuQ\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" wmode=\"transparent\" width=\"425\" height=\"350\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p><em>Video: <a title=\"Playing the Blues!\" href=\"http:\/\/www.staronion.com\/maiev\/video\/playing_blues_final_640.avi\">Playing the Blues<\/a> (DivX, 53MB), drawing by Farkee of Fenrir. Please right click the link and hit save as. Its too big to stream.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>If you want to comment during your read, please leave it on this page. I&#8217;d love to hear that you&#8217;ve found this useful, so I can improve on\/write more about other things. Also, others can read the comment to see if they want to read on and I only need to check 1 page to see what others perceive about my writeup.<\/p>\n<p>My English is my second language so bare with me if some sentences are way off in grammatical structure.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Guide Index<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Maiev&#8217;s Guide to Blue Mage! [You are here]<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"What is Blue Mage\" href=\"\/maiev\/nfblog\/?page_id=153\">What is Blue mage?<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Blue Mage Abilities\" href=\"\/maiev\/nfblog\/?page_id=154\">Blue Mage&#8217;s Abilities<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"General Blue-Mage Knowledge\" href=\"\/maiev\/nfblog\/?page_id=157\">General Blue-Mage Knowledge<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Intermediate Blue-Mage Knowledge\" href=\"\/maiev\/nfblog\/?page_id=156\">Intermediate Blue-Mage Knowledge<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Advanced Blue-Mage Knowledge\" href=\"\/maiev\/nfblog\/?page_id=155\">Advanced Blue-Mage Knowledge<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Discussion!\" href=\"\/maiev\/nfblog\/?page_id=167\">Maiev&#8217;s Discussion on Blue-Mage<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Conclusion\" href=\"\/maiev\/nfblog\/?page_id=168\">Conclusion<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Why read on my Blue-Mage guide?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I wasn&#8217;t that bad, at least I hope not &#8216;-&#8216;. I don&#8217;t want to blow my own horn but just some screenshots of people who I party with! (I don&#8217;t know them either!)<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Trey's Chat Log\" href=\"\/maiev\/img\/treytalk.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Trey's Talk\" title=\"Trey's Talk\" src=\"\/maiev\/img\/treytalks.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve out-parsed at least 95% of my party members since Lv40 (when Chain Affnity [CA] is made available). These are all accompnied by a parser results (Actually I have all parser results if the party lasted 1hr+, for the statistics to be sort-of reliable. You can read all about my Blue-Mage post <a href=\"\/maiev\/nfblog\/?cat=10\">right here<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Out-parsed <a href=\"\/maiev\/nfblog\/?p=161\">blu\/nin<\/a>, Out-parsed other <a href=\"\/maiev\/nfblog\/?p=132\">blu\/thf<\/a>,Out-parsed <a href=\"\/maiev\/nfblog\/?p=69\">war 71 72<\/a> when I was 70\/71 blu<\/li>\n<li>I have done extensive research, and the parser proved that I was on the right track.<\/li>\n<li>I have received a lot of comment about how I play my blu is what they want to see others doing.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Reafr's Chat Log\" title=\"Reafr's Chat Log\" src=\"\/maiev\/img\/reafr.jpg\" \/><\/li>\n<li>I am not pulling data out of my TaruButt, but from websites which have high creditability.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Obviously I rarely party with other blue-mages, so the only source of information was forum, and the only source of feedback is from my party members.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ll try very hard not to be bias until the last section where I give in my opinion, in which I compare \/thf and \/nin, so anyway, I hope this would be an interesting read for you.<\/p>\n<div align=\"right\"><a title=\"What is a Blue Mage!\" href=\"\/maiev\/nfblog\/?page_id=153\">Next Page<\/a> &gt;&gt;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A note to my readers: This article is my opinion of how a Blue Mage should be played or how I analyze the statistics\/methods of playing the job. 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