{"id":171,"date":"2006-10-06T17:20:27","date_gmt":"2006-10-06T22:20:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staronion.com\/maiev\/nfblog\/?page_id=171"},"modified":"2010-07-14T16:04:11","modified_gmt":"2010-07-14T21:04:11","slug":"the-chain-5-writing","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.staronion.com\/maiev\/nfblog\/?page_id=171","title":{"rendered":"The Chain 5 Videos!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Enough explaining my stuff, time for the action!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Chain 5 requires good MP management on your previous kills. That&#8217;s being said, I can&#8217;t allow Imps to control me, so please use Head Butt! Anyway, here&#8217;s the rough timeline of a Chain 5. Btw, I have 800 effective MP, I&#8217;ll timeline below are for around 650mp users.<\/p>\n<p>Note: You cannot use the North Camp (the place where there&#8217;s only 2 place holder for imps) for Chain 5. Max Chain 4!<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Kill Imp, Chain 0<\/li>\n<li>Full Rest<\/li>\n<li>Kill Imp, Chain 1<\/li>\n<li>Full rest<\/li>\n<li>Kill Imp, Chain 2, Eat Cookie<\/li>\n<li>Full rest<\/li>\n<li>Pop Juice, Kill Imp, Chain 3, Pop Juice (if it wears off), Eat Cookie<\/li>\n<li>2 ticks of MP rest<\/li>\n<li>Pop Juice, Kill Imp, Chain 4. Pop Juice<\/li>\n<li>CHECK if you have 320mp (I go Chain 5 if I have 280mp since I have 5 Physical Potency Merit)<\/li>\n<li>Kill Imp for Chain 5<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Below are the videos of my Chain 0-5 video, it should show you enough of how I fight imps. I&#8217;ve chopped out my MP resting part, waste of bandwidth!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Nasty Combo<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Sleepga! \/ Poisonga! If you use Ichi : Ichi : Ni : 1 dead Imp, if Imp does decide to Sleepga on your 1st or 2nd Ichi blinks, you have Ni as backup.<\/p>\n<p>Lets say, something happen (from my experience), you ran from Ichi -> Ni, and it Sleepga.<\/p>\n<p><u>STAY CALM<\/u> You will be taking hits!<\/p>\n<p>Your Head Butt WILL NOT give you enough time (unless it was a lucky Head Butt, but I wouldn&#8217;t gamble with the duration of Stun) so.. <u>Magic Fruit<\/u> yourself!!<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Videos (DivX Format)<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Enough reading, sometime its easier to just see it or&#8230; more brave to try it out when you&#8217;ve seen it before so&#8230; here&#8217;s the process of a Chain 5 in a nutshell (chopping off resting time inbetween videos, updated, its now linked to youtube.)<\/p>\n<h2>Chain 0 &#038; 1 Video<\/h2>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/FLHRTUtcVoA&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/FLHRTUtcVoA&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/embed><\/object><br \/>\n(Full rest in-between 0 and 1)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Full Rest<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2>Chain 2 &#038; 3 Video<\/h2>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/P-9eTwo8q5Q&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/P-9eTwo8q5Q&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/embed><\/object><br \/>\n(Full rest inbetween 2 and 3)<\/p>\n<p>2-3 ticks of MP \/ start drinking Yagudo Juice if you have low MP pool<\/p>\n<h2>Chain 4 and 5<\/h2>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/QldWOLLP3CM&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/QldWOLLP3CM&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>This should conclude about all my discoveries and learning in Blue-Mage! Hope you really enjoyed it. If you want to leave a comment or suggestion, you can leave it on <a title=\"Comment Page\" href=\"\/maiev\/nfblog\/?page_id=169\">this page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Frequently Asked Qustions<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Q: Why Engage the Imp?<br \/>\nA: Its because I wanted the parry skillup. Unless your parrying is uberly low, you can skill up on these. EP&#8217;s to 75 will not take your parrying beyond 180, so the only way to level it is.. tank stuff higher than EP at level 75 &#8216;-&#8216; Imps VT! Can even cap your parry.<\/p>\n<p>Q: Why CA before the battle, I mean its 0 TP!<br \/>\nA: CA doubles your secondary modifier regardless of TP. So you&#8217;ll still get a slight damage increase. You could (its really a preference thing), CA in mid-battle since you got TP, but I&#8217;d rather be able to calculate my MP usage. If I CA in the beginning, its roughly 5-6 spells to take out an Imp (with CA), but if you get Null JA in mid-battle &#8216;-&#8216; you don&#8217;t even get the bonus damage :o Debatable!<\/p>\n<p>Q: Is yours a refresh sanction?<br \/>\nA: Yes, its well worth it even for 100 points. Lets say everyday you go burn an xp ring. 200 points for RP, 100 for refresh signet, but 3k exp = 300 points! You break even, and make your life easier! (and safer). Don&#8217;t save on RR gorget, 5k to save yourself from hassle! I mean it could Posionga II in beginning the Sleepga, rape your blink in seconds and.. &#8216;-&#8216;<\/p>\n<p>Q: What merit did you put in first?<br \/>\nA: If I was a blue mage, I&#8217;d do Potency > MP Capacity. Very simple, to kill more efficient, that means inflicting more damage as quickly as possible hence giving you more time to rest.<\/p>\n<p>Increasing damage by 2% is basically saying you are doing more damage with less mp, or <u>relatively<\/u> giving you more mp. If you have a 800 MP Pool, a 2% extra damage is like giving you a 2% MP saving, or you can see it as, adding 2% more to your mana pool, which makes 16mp more.<\/p>\n<p>Whereas 1 merit of mp = 10 mp, you get more if you do potency first :) That&#8217;s my recommendation if you had to choose between two.<\/p>\n<p>Overall merit order, I&#8217;d do..<\/p>\n<p>Potency > MP Merit > Sword Merit > Magic Accuracy.<\/li>\n<p>I&#8217;ll add when people ask me and I think its important to let others know :O<\/p>\n<p align=\"right\"><< <a title=\"Killing the Imp!\" href=\"\/maiev\/nfblog\/?page_id=170\">Previous Page<\/a> | <a href=\"\/maiev\/nfblog\/\">StarOnion Home<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Enough explaining my stuff, time for the action! Chain 5 requires good MP management on your previous kills. That&#8217;s being said, I can&#8217;t allow Imps to control me, so please use Head Butt! Anyway, here&#8217;s the rough timeline of a Chain 5. 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