Quest and Drop spells

[Missionary30]

I've looked around the web and I'm having a hard time finding a place that lists spells and where to get them. I am missing 5 spells right now (Gravity, Ice spike, Dezone (warp), Drain, and Frost). And there are a lot of spells I see in the future that I have no clue on how to get; Aspire Tractor Drown Burning and more.

I can't expect someone to list all the spell locations here, but if anyone knows of any places to find out about them it would be awesome.

I've checked the AH and I will probably buy some from it (like quests that are in forign regions that I don't have fame in). But really I think all the blm's could benefit from spell location information

Also, do you all think that Square Bradygames or Prima or whoever will make a thick bible of a play guide or a crappy expanded manual like for eq? I know it's hard to make a guide for a MMRPG because of how dynamic the content is, so I don't have high hopes but my fingers are crossed

-Missionary

[Kirashi]

at level 19 you don't have ice spike you have blaze spike... tha'ts a quest from windurst
dezone a quest from bastok
drain a quest from sandoria
ice spike is dropped by phantom
i am pretty sure frost is buyable? i might be wrong (i got mine from AH i think)
and gravity.... unless they changed the name in beta froms omething i don't think i can recall having this spell in my import version

[Missionary30]

OK, I've looked more and harder, and still nothing on the other quests..

Frost was on the windurst vender, and so was Burn. I havn't checked back sense we got control maybe that is when they went up for sale, or maybe they always were for sale.

Gravity I still can't find anything on =/

Blaze Spikes I got at lvl 9, I think. Ice spikes is dropped by ghost type mobs, then would it drop by Ghosts in the Canyon near windurst?

Dezone(warp), and Drain are both in other posts, so hopefully once I get some missions done I can get them.

/em looks at his empty wallet

Is choke, frost, burn, and the other DOT's worth it? I use shock and bio because they debuff ATK and MND (mnd = resist, right?), but I don't know about the other DOT's and their usefullness is this time of n00bie poverty

-Missionary

[Maxim]

The DOTs each have their own specific element and Stat reducing effect. Ever since a patch that was added in the past, DOTs lower the resist of the element that's opposite to its own element (so using Choke, a water element DOT, will make the monster weaker to Thunder).

Anyway, I think that's how it went. If that's not it then it's the opposite of what I said (Choke makes Water less resistable as opposed to Thunder more resistable, and etc.). Anyhow, to answer your question it's pretty worth it since those are BLM-specific spells so no other class can use it but you.

As for Gravity, that's a Red Mage-only spell. You don't need to worry about it unless you're raising RDM as well.

[Tidane]

A question for you...did you start are WHM or RDM?

[Missionary30]

Ahhh I see now why to use DOT's. I was thinking they're not worth their manacost if they just debuff a near-worthless stat (what does a debuff to cha or vit do? Does lower vit = less max hp for the mob you debuff?).

I will do some experaments with damage, and I should probably pick up choke, was negleting it.

Are you positive that gravity is RDM only? I saw it on AH and the color was yellow, and I think it's listed on a spell list somewhere (either here, or the incredably inacurate gamefaqs )

Thanks for the info on the spells

Another question would be though, is it possible to sort your mixxed spell list, mine just lists my blm spells, then my whm spells. I want to sort it in the order I cast spells, but it's hard to figure it out by organizing two sperate lists then looking at how they combine.. I'd use macros but some spells like Cure II I can't figure out how to bind, because there are two words to the spell (I had the same problem with Blaze Spikes).

Thanks again,

-Missionary

[Mithrael]

use
[CODE]/ma "Blaze Spikes" <me>[/CODE]
etc. for 2 word spells.

Lowering VIT decreases the enemy defense (your physical attacks do more damage).

Drain is described well on the boards, as someone already said. It requires a lot of fame. I still couldn't get it with 72 quests, but got it with 75. I don't know if i just didn't have enough San d'Oria fame yet or if 75 is the minimum.

Gravity can be found on Windurst M8. I honestly don't remember which mobs drop it. Current AH rate for that on Cactuar is 5k, I believe.

Aspir is probably on the board somewhere, that is a Windurst quest in the Magic School.

Tractor is a drop in Qufim.

Your best bet is to go to the auction house and see who sold the item. Contact them to see where they got it.

I don't know if you can intermix your various magic types. you can sort the order of the various types however you like, but i have found no way to put dia next to poison, for example.

[Mithrael]

use
[CODE]/ma "Blaze Spikes" <me>[/CODE]
etc. for 2 word spells.

Lowering VIT decreases the enemy defense (your physical attacks do more damage).

Drain is described well on the boards, as someone already said. It requires a lot of fame. I still couldn't get it with 72 quests, but got it with 75. I don't know if i just didn't have enough San d'Oria fame yet or if 75 is the minimum.

Gravity can be found on Windurst M8. I honestly don't remember which mobs drop it. Current AH rate for that on Cactuar is 5k, I believe.

Aspir is probably on the board somewhere, that is a Windurst quest in the Magic School.

Tractor is a drop in Qufim.

Your best bet is to go to the auction house and see who sold the item. Contact them to see where they got it.

I don't know if you can intermix your various magic types. you can sort the order of the various types however you like, but i have found no way to put dia next to poison, for example.

[Missionary30]

Ahh thanks for the help, someone told me online today about suing quotations over two word spells to use them in macros, makes sense.

I don't understand why they made drain such a low level spell and such high level quest requirements? 75 quests? Last time I checked I did 11 in sandoria, and I thought I did a lot

-Missionary

[Kirashi]

no...
it took me 10 unique bastok quest and some amount of repeats in those 10 to get drain

[Calianeri]

Kirashi, I think you're referring to Warp (Dezone), not Drain. Drain is in Sandoria, Warp is in Bastok. But from what I've heard, you're right about the number of quests in Bastok to get Warp.