Black Mage Partying?

[Andrinor]

Heh, hadn't checked back in a bit. Yeah the :52 is a call timer. Sometimes leader's won't even bother to put the ":" in front of the numbers, so you might just see digits that appear random like "09". Timed nukes are essential in several scenarios, so getting used to that and being ready for it is good.

Good call on the /RDM vs /WHM. That can muck up your timers a bit. I've done it enough I can compensate, but its a feel thing really...you have to DO it to learn it.

BLM is friggin awesome in low parties btw. The buffs crabs and beetles throw up (depending on where you are XPing) can be tough to deal with since a lot of low PTs won't have a dispeller. You can blow right through that, and then aspir back your MP adding insult to injury! Never underestimate the power of elemental debuffs like burn, shock, choke, etc too. Those are nice DoT and debuff the mob as well.

Man I miss old-school BLM ; ;

[Mog]

Man I miss old-school BLM ; ;

I miss magic bursts. > .>;

[Andrinor]

I miss magic bursts. > .>;

The first time I was in Kuftal and called a SC start time during my Freeze cast for the melee (does anyone even know how to do THAT anymore?), watched the Distortion land on a crab with 50% hp, and then watched the crab freaking DISAPPEAR when my Freeze MB landed? That was the day my <3 for BLM was sealed for good in the smoking crab guts splattered all over the wall.

[Mog]

The first time I was in Kuftal and called a SC start time during my Freeze cast for the melee (does anyone even know how to do THAT anymore?), watched the Distortion land on a crab with 50% hp, and then watched the crab freaking DISAPPEAR when my Freeze MB landed? That was the day my <3 for BLM was sealed for good in the smoking crab guts splattered all over the wall.

lol i remember that. Had to make a macro just right for casting freeze and calling when melee should skillchain. Good times.

[Lunaryn]

I actually remember being the skillchain closer for MBs like that, though in my case it was in the early ToAU days, we were fighting Lesser Colibri in Wajaom Woodlands, and we had two BLMs and an RDM in the party. We'd DoT the bird down to 50%-ish, and then it would die. This was before it was expected that BLMs should solo 50-75...

[Andrinor]

lol i remember that. Had to make a macro just right for casting freeze and calling when melee should skillchain. Good times.

btw, for those interested in doing this (and I recommend ANY BLM in the 50s try it when they get freeze and are in Kuftal) I used this macro (or close, don't recall the exact wording):

/p Freeze {Start Button}, Get ready to Skillchain!
/ma "Freeze" <t>
/wait 4
/p Start Skillchain NOW! <random annoying call #>

The wait 4 is a solid starting point, which you can increase or decrease a bit based on how quickly your PT executes the SC. Call this SC somewhere around 50% and you should one-shot whatever is left of the mob by the time your cast goes off. If you call it earlier....well, prepare to tank . Now all you have to do is convince melee to make a distortion chain for you, and you're gold.