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LMAO yhel jacket eat your heart out

On an EARRING? Love it.

Agreed. I am finishing off my drk, then working on my Apoc with the 5 kills and working on my sch. Sch these last few updates has become completely overpowered if you know how to play it correctly. :)

FYI SCH isnt way behind, its still ahead, it just hasnt got Blizzard V yet. A SCH cannot compare with a BLM in damage when said SCH hasnt got that perticular spell, it stands to reason.

Until BLM get Hailstorm, BLM will fall behind SCH in damage spell for spell. Its not skill, gear or luck its mathematics.

If my mathematics are correct my Blizzard V will do 5500+ with AotB and AotMM + normal buffs. Thats not to mention the potential for a Skillchain behind that. No BLM can match that AT THE MOMENT with the same aparatas without having Hailstorm applied by a SCH.

I thought that the BLM community has come to terms with and accepted that weather + Ebullience made SCH the king of nukes, and this has been the truth for what 2-3 years now?

SE heeded the disparate cries of BLM and gave them -ja spells and this utility makes you in many ways superior in nuking and utility than SCH. The fact that Ebullience is now +25% potency (more with AF3 feet and Klimaform) makes the gap even more pronounced.

I for one have never been even appoached in damage by any BLM in damage spell for spell unless I give them weather and they have obis, and I have only very good gear, not excellent.

If left in any doubts BLM, find your nearest SCH taru like me and ask to go head to head. That should sort a few things out.

But sch can quickly change and debuff and cure support like a blm can't

BLM is ahead of us for pure nuking and I believe they should be. The gap will close a bit with the next update I think. SCH will finally get Bliz V and if the dat mining is correct, it will also get Comet or Ultima. It is listed as a light based spell so if that is the case, Atma of the Beyond will provide it a huge bonus as well. Assuming neither job receives any new JA/JT (seems unlikely) BLM would still pull ahead but I think SCH will be able to sit comfortably as #2 nuker.

Maybe it's just my server, but I'm convinced 99% of schs suck at the job and have piss poor nuke sets.

While I have you here, Lytia, do you have any advice on where I can do bees/crabs for ice dmg staff on sch or rdm? I can't ga 3 since I don't have blm so I think I'm gonna be in for a 49372 hr grind no matter where I go.

Edited, Dec 10th 2010 3:24pm by Logiks

Well, I'll be lucky enough to find another SCH in my endgame LS, let alone one that can skillchain properly.

I think that the best and most immediate use of Immanence is to boost our 2Hour considerably in damage. Being able to increase most nukes damage by 50% on top of the 20% damage of Ebullience is potentially awesome. I'm going to have to think of an optimal nuke sequence to take advantage of this.

Abyssea is the best place to do pretty much every trial at this point, especially on not-BLM; the mobs may be stronger, but you should be much much stronger so it works out. That said, we did bees in Wajaom Woodlands (G-6), there's 2 Pephedro hives right next to each other. Crabs were much more problematic.. I had done pugils for Kubera's in Vunkerl and saw how busy it was so we didn't bother, and of course Kuftal Tunnel was right out, so we just went to Misareaux [A] and killed crabs there. Konschtat [A] is hands-down the only place to go for the Wyvern trial as well.

My suggestion to you is to find 2 BLMs that are either working on the same trials, or just want Abyssea XP, and team up. Go on RDM/BLU with your PDT set, pull the entire group of monsters, and let the BLMs alternate nukes/Sleepgas. It may take some practice for them to figure it out, but once they do, you can finish any trial in <2 hours tops. I really wish I had figured that much out before I was already 95% finished with my staves. -.-

I agree he got some gear confused. I think he was talking about the AF3+1 hat. and yes the hat provides an additional +5% to ebullience, and +10% if u have af3+2. But his point is not irrelevant. The ability add +25-30% Potency to any magic spell is quite handy. BLM is limited that their potency is in ice and thunder. Outside those two elements, blm is mediocre at best.


Enmity Control: People keep raving about this amazing BLM ability to reduce enmity. Did people forget about Animus Minuo? and oh yeah Minikin? Yes BLM's have douse+manawall. But sch's have had Animus Minuo for some time. If ur nuking in a party w/o Minuo ur not taking advantage of all ur spells.

In the end it really depends on the gear, both blm and sch. As well as how u are measuring the dmg parse. Because as it stands now. the new Skillchain ability with sch allows sch's to make huge amounts of dmg for very little MB as well as participate in melee skill chains, either closing or opening. SCH can now open light, still trying how to open darkness with melee.

My personal favorites are:
Water > Blizzard 4 = Induration + blizz 3 for Magic Burst.

Evisceration > Stone V = distortion + Blizz4 for MB

Edited, Dec 13th 2010 6:32am by Winter4Real