[ryan3]

Hey there,
Well, I am a 52 DRK.. and I started leveling BLM for fun.. loved it! Its going to be my new main I think.. but is a hume blm really disadvantaged at higher levels? Im level 12 right now.. using the best gear I can w/2 Astral Rings.. Just wondering if I should just make a tarutaru!

Thanks for youre input

[AtraposBLM]

Do whatever you feel like doing ^_^;

The most gimped you'll be is until RSE. From there on, it's a downhill battle At upper levels, the difference isn't enough to fret yourself.

However, since your hume is low, if you really want to be the best, remake as a taru. Question is, do you really want to go through all the pains of making a new character? At least you'll have a lv52 character to help tweak you from the beginning.



Bottom line: If you're dedicated to getting the best gear, you'll do fine whichever path you take. If you have astrals at lv12...you'll do fine ^_^;

[blueoakleyz]

No not at all.
One thing I URGE you to do since you're a hume, is melee with staff! You can melee until at least lvl 32 like me.
At lvl 32 I have +18 INT and 401 MP....good enough for me

[Tomoh]

If you have 2 astral rings, I think you're fine. I have BLM 40 for my RDM main and I have never felt disadvantaged as Hume. I did not have any Astral rings.

With the amount of damage you will inflict, you need not worry and should contine raising your Hume BLM. You will get invites plenty.

[Sadeira]

i'm a 75 hume rdm and i never felt disadvantaged, not even at low levels. sure i don't do as much damage a as a taru but we would both get resisted all the same on it mobs.

besides, int isn't the determining factor for whether spells get resisted or not, it's skill. elemental magic skill is the be all and end all for black mages when exping. of course, you really don't get an opportunities to raise it till level 51.

the astral rings will do you a lot of good till you get your rse, i think. since you'll be resisted all the same regardless of your int bonus.

finally, you should feel confident in the fact that if you pull hate, you're not going to die as fast a taru blm. ^^

[Crowzukin]

I'm a lv 69 BLM at the moment and love it. The amount of MP isn't a problem since most of the time you have to hold back a little anyway or else you will take the hate. Post 51 as long as you have a Dark Staff and Ice Staff you should not be running out of MP. As a matter of fact, eventually you will not need any +MP gear. Just be sure to boost up your INT and get the Moldavite when possible.

[OTP Member]

Yea stick with the hume BLM Humes are good at everything a big disadvantige with us tarus is are HP sucks a** you can die with 2 hits at lvl 12 and if your a hume BLM you wont die you will have plenty of MP the only mages people realy do not like on my server is Galka mages even tho there is this one LS were thy thank Galka are bedder mages (witch is not true at all) so just keep your lvl 12 BLM hume k?

[Jinxie]

Yes keep your Hume. I think you would regret creating a new taru character because you would have to go through all the woes of getting fame, subjob quests, etc. Plus, since your primary character was a DRK, you already have a head start on the magic skills that are important to BLM. My sub is blm and I've never felt disadvantaged when I level it. In fact, one of my LS buddies is a Hume BLM full time and his MB Freezes are doing over 1000dmg at lvl 52. No sure how common or uncommon this is, but it's impressive none the less.

[Shiia]

Currenty 45. I have no trouble keeping up with my damage. Although I am more focused on INT than MP (since around my level I can pull off hate with every god damn skill chain MB...) I have a crappy 480ish mp but +25 INT with gear and no food used.

Of course tarus will own me in this department MP and INT wise but humes aren't that far anyway. My best MB is 486 with watergaII atm (annoying that this is what I deal with FireIII as rdm without FIre staff -_-)

[fuz]

Well, to put humes in another light, they rank in terms of racial stats as 2nd best caster behind tarus. Second place is hardly a bad position.

On the flip side, humes aren't exactly great at melee... :dead:

[Rodin]

Originally posted by fuz
Well, to put humes in another light, they rank in terms of racial stats as 2nd best caster behind tarus. Second place is hardly a bad position.

On the flip side, humes aren't exactly great at melee... :dead:

Hume's are ok at melee, they're ok at everything, but as a blm, all races suck at melee.

[fuz]

Originally posted by Rodin
Hume's are ok at melee, they're ok at everything, but as a blm, all races suck at melee.

Well, I didn't mean melee as a blm, I meant other jobs like war. :p In melee the only thing a hume has going for it is slightly higher str and vit over mithra, but not enough to be significant. So in otherwords, humes rank average or below average in melee jobs since they have more mage biased stats.

Thankfully, melee jobs aren't as race critical unlike mage jobs, so a taru war isn't as disadvantaged as a galka whm.

[blueoakleyz]

If you're a hume BLM then YES, melee (no reason why a taru can't either). Raise that staff skill!
You're never gonna get hate from the damage you do but it does help

[Thegod]

Originally posted by Tomoh
If you have 2 astral rings, I think you're fine. I have BLM 40 for my RDM main and I have never felt disadvantaged as Hume. I did not have any Astral rings.

With the amount of damage you will inflict, you need not worry and should contine raising your Hume BLM. You will get invites plenty.

I am a mithra, and thf/war and red/blk were my first jobs (i leveled both before hitting 30 for the first time) when i hit 30 i became a rng/nin and level that to level 40.

I just recently went back to my blk mage (was level 12) I had like 700k in gil that i was gonna use to buy rng gear, but decided i hated pulling, so i switched to blk.


I bought two astrals, and basically screwed myself, of course i had more MP then everyone but a taru with two astrals, but i was getting resisted like crazy, this happened untill level 20. Even with mage's tunic, mage's slacks, garrison gloves and boots, black silk necktie, and melon pies+1 (5int) oh and yew wand +1 i was STILL GETTING RESISTED.


so now im level 28, i have full seer's+1 gear waiting for me, i have 1 astral and one ermites+1, im gonna try to go back to two astrals, but the bottom line is INT>>>>>MP for blk mages.

[Altruist]

By end game a few int doesn't mean anything, yeah a taru will have a little bit more mp or a little bit more int but it's not a big issue. You will still pull hate, you will still die, your hp won't save you from fafnir or KB. It really doesn't matter at all. The lack of mp isn't a huge issue, learn to manage it a little better. After the early levels there is no reason to pick a blm over another because of race, you'll get PT's fine.

In conclusion taru's are technically best, but no one actually cares.