Metallic body is going to be about a -88 DMG SS with /BLU skill and merits.(SS+ gear does not work on BLU stoneskin spells) It's not worth setting much less actually casting.
If you wanted another AoE enmity spell to cycle there's also Stinking Gas. Same 320/320 CE/VE as the other AoE spells.
Cocoon, Jettatura, and Blank Gaze are the must-haves. Auto-regen (Healing Breeze+Sheep Song) is also a good idea. Sheep Song and Soporific are also okay for enmity (they give the same as Blank Gaze), but you probably won't need them since the recast on Blank Gaze is fairly short. You can also set Beast Killer (Wild Oats+Sprout Smack), Lizard Killer (Foot Kick+Claw Cyclone), or Plantoid Killer (Power attack+Mandibular bite) if those are applicable.
The rest of your slots can be filled with Attack Bonus (Battle Dance+Upper Cut) and other random throwaway +stats.
For AoE enmity (the main reason to use /blu right now due to Dynamis), the following are all 320/320 VE/CE:
Geist Wall- 30 second recast, 3 second cast
Stinking Gas- 37 second recast, 4 second cast
Sheep Song- 60 second recast, 3 second cast
Soporific- 90 second recast, 3 second cast
Jettatura is a conal 1020/180 with a 120 recast, .5 second cast.
Felgy is the man! He taught me how to synergize correctly, he's cool to talk to in discord and he paid for at least one full round of aeonic pops (of which you and your wife were included on elazar.) And as for syto I think no one in the shell wanting anything to do with you speaks for itself.
I wish I knew anything about pld or blu but unfortunately I have no insight to either. Though it seems well worth exploring.
Awww.. Alfy coming to the rescue! You're such an awesome friend Alfy!! He IS a great buddy on Discord, synthesizer, and resource provider... I agree...lol...
I expect more from an AG Ochain HQ Geared PLD. ^_^
This has nothing to do with me and the shell. I'll say hi next time I jump on.
Do Blank Gaze and Jettatura need to hit the enemy face (gaze attack) in order to generate enmity?
ofcourse they need to be face on in order to proc dispel or terror, but what about enmity?
Yes, you still get enmity on resisted AOE spells. This is something I still try to convince my LS THFs to do. Most still don't get it.
On THF, the purpose of /blu, /brd, /blm is to do a weak enmity AOE that will not wake slept monsters. This tags TH7-8 on all the monsters the spell hit. Since a sleeper sub is likely going to be resisted, I hope the THFs wait till after the full mages sleepga the mobs first otherwise the mobs may turn and kill the THF if the tank is unable to pull off an AOE hate spell first.
Instead, the THFs resists coming /sleepga and go /dnc or /war and miss tagging all monsters. OR they do /sleepga and think AOE tag with Aeolian Edge which ends up waking all the slept monsters which in turn kills the THF and the mages that slept the monsters. OR the THF gets killed because he gets excited and sleepgas before the mages get a chance to sleepga the mobs resulting in dead THF. Dead THF then gets mad and says sleepga does not work. Then refuses to try sleepga again not realizing that a weakened THF can still apply hate with sleepga from a safe distance as long as the mobs are asleep.
But I also would like to ask about MP management.
How you guys manage your MP pool with so many spells in rotation when the only source of refresh is the trait and Refresh II (if so) or maybe GEO also when you ask nicely ;)?
Don't we sacrifice precious enmity points which, outside head and neck, those items doesn't have?
Or the BLU spells spam compensate this lose?
Or maybe while used as MIDCAST gear, Ahitacast/Gearswap using emnity set as a PRECAST?
One other thing I try to consider on precast/midcast is pieces with gobs of HP(af+3 body/regal gauntlets/odnowa earrings. No healer or bot loves curing a PLD for 1200 HP that they lose every spell/ja they do.
If your blinking down to 2400HP and idling at 3500+ its gonna piss someone off, or destroy your healers mp pool
Hate Spells:
(2) Blank Gaze
(4) Jettatura
(3) Geist Wall
(2) Sheep Song
(4) Soporific
-- 15 Points
Defensive:
(1) Cocoon
-- 1 Point
Healing:
(3) Wild Carrot (this costs 9mp less than Cure III)
(4) Healing Breeze (AoE Cure, Auto-Regen with Sheep Song)
-- 7 Points
Other:
(4) Refueling (10% Magic Haste. You should be getting haste from your supports... but people suck)
(3) Scredriver (10HP, 1VIT) edit: Can Swap for (2)Stinking Gas if you need more AoE Enmity.
-- 7 Points
30/30 Points, 10/10 Slots
This is a great list. I've opted to to replace Screwdriver with Stinking Gas and Poison Breath. This brings you up to 7 BLU spells for enmity with. I'm also mentioning the recast timers here, to give people an idea that some spells are not as frequent:
Need:
Blank Gaze 10s Single Target
Jettatura 120s Front Conal
Geist Wall 30s AoE
Sheep Song 60s AoE
Soporific 90s AoE
I use these:
Stinking Gas 60s AoE
Poison Breath 19.5s Front Conal
Instead of this:
Screwdriver 14s Single Target
In my downtime, I tend to use shield-bash, flash, sentinel, rampart, etc....but I always try to have 1-2 BLU spells available for the next pull. Sometimes, the DDs I play with kill things to fast and I don't have spells to pull with. (Haste is absolutely necessary for flash request. If I could guarantee a Haste all the time, I would use Refueling's 4 points elsewhere....but I digress.
Poison breath is damage based enmity. Meaning that the damage dealt by the spell and the target level determines the enmity generated. It's going to be complete crap enmity-wise on high level targets. Not to mention it's likely to be resisted into the ground due to low BLU magic skill and macc.
Also the recast of screwdriver is not in any way relevant as it was only set for the stat bonuses. I doubt they ever cast it at all.
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So in recent updates, Ive noticed a lot more mobs have a hate reset or even a 100% hate loss and as a basic pld/war with all haste I can ask for not a lot I can do to get hate back with out killing my HP and trying to cure bomb for hate. While this trick does work most days it always comes with a risk of death and thus defeating the idea of tanking. A friend of mine suggested pld/blu. As I have used this for DMv2 and other events and with great success, I was wondering if anyone has tried this as a viable option with any success in More recent content. As well as that question, and aside from the obvious hate spam spells seen in other PLD section post, what other spells would you use /blu? Cocoon blank gaze Jettatura as well as some healing pair to get 1 regen a tic. What else would you suggest? I have not been a very good blu so Id hope for a good point in the right direction