Fresh 90BLM with a few technical questionsFollow

Equip yourself with the best gear you can with the resources you have available and you'll have enough INT.

I don't think people chase magic numbers or anything like they used to. I think it's just more about just upgrading each slot, not trying to balance anything. Abysssea parties aren't known for being efficient, and being top notch isn't as important as it once was. Being average is much more acceptable(by most people, most of the time).

1 INT < 1 MAB < 2 INT in any situation where your MACC is capped (5% resist rate).

In the current state of the game, a 90 BLM with capped skill and merits will have capped elemental MACC vs almost anything, so just follow the above rule of thumb as others have said. In situations where MACC is not capped, MACC will start to beat MAB. With 80% accuracy for example, 5 MACC will statistically just beat 7 MAB.

Edited, Mar 17th 2011 3:26am by K1n371x

The "magic numbers" you are referring to at level 75 aren't applicable anymore because of level correction, but even then there were exceptions (I believe Kirin has 141 Int for example, so magic acc from int capped much higher on him than it did on a majority of other targets). The simple truth is that resists on lvl 75 content will be floored to a lvl 90 blm with capped magic skill and appropriate gear. As long as you don't nuke kirin with earth or throw blizzard spells at nidhogg you should be fine. It's not so much a magic number anymore as it is the two fold effect of level correction being taken away combined with 15 more levels worth of magic skill (and of course an odd dozen or so points of base int as well).

Also by now we're all familiar with the abyssean experience so that doesn't need much explanation. I get anywhere from + 100-150 INT just by activating cruor buffs (with 3 abyssites of furtherence) and donning MM atma. The majority of situations where you can't nuke a mob well isn't due to resists but rather running into a high amount of MDB/MDT. Dvallin/Durinn and Mictlantecuhtli are good examples of this. In the event you're fighting a magic resistant mob several atmas increase magic acc; ultimate being a favorite just for the MaB anyway so it's a pretty simple workaround.



We don't know how S-E plans to implement the next phase of the level cap and for all we know they could let us carry our atmas with us. Speculating about magic numbers at level 99 end game is silly because the events and mobs don't even exist yet, and in the next 9 levels relevant new abilities or traits may be added or heck even tier 3 merits. Since we just don't know what's going to happen speculating new "magic numbers" is unproductive.

Edited, Mar 21st 2011 8:57pm by Melphina