BLM/SMN subjob mana difference

[PetriW]

Edit: note that this question is for a a char with White Mage as main job (and some mod erroneously moved it to BLM forum).

So, I see all the time how SMN as subjob gives you "lots more mp" than BLM but how much is lots? 30mp, 100mp, an extra mana regen skill? ;)
Sorry if it's n00b question but I'll be 18 soon so it's about time I figured it out. BLM does seem to have several spell that would be neat that might overweight a larger mana pool.

Level 70whm/35 numbers are enough if someone has them. :biggrin:

[darknight694]

you can Never have enough mana....:thumbsup:

[Amylisa]

This calculator is pretty good for calculating hp/mp :

http://ccwf.cc.utexas.edu/~nhart/Status_calculator.htm

[Icemage]

Actually, the stat calculator is wildly inaccurate. There is a difference, but I don't know how much there is at level 70. At a rough guess, based on what I saw at level 50, it is probably somewhere around 100MP.


Icemage

[PetriW]

No idea why this was moved to black mage as it's not exactly interesting for them how their class performs as a subjob to white mage...

Question was how much white mages mana was affected by the BLM and SMN subjobs, I guess I'll edit my first post so it won't be misunderstood by it being moved out of context.

[Calianeri]

It's similar to how a BLM/SMN's MP is different from BLM/WHM. In other words, you don't gain that much MP as a WHM/SMN, and you lose the useful abilities of a WHM/BLM. The values of a summoner subjob always seem to be overrated. I've seen auto-refresh in action, and as Starving Artist said, it isn't that impressive and isn't even a factor until level 50 main. That said, however, at least WHM/SMN makes a little more sense than BLM/SMN.

[PetriW]

Yeah, wherever I looked it seemed that the actual mana gain was really minor although I never saw any hard numbers until StarvingArtists post. One extra Cure2 doesn't sound that exciting. :sweat:
Which basically means it's abilities rather than mana pool that decides.

[Irinicus]

IMO, do not sub SMN, rather make that your main and sub WHM or BLM. You will be much better off that way.