An Idiot's Skills/Abilities Guide to BLACK MAGE!!! | FFXIV

hello so you've just started final fantasy xiv you've created your warrior of light and now you're stuck on picking a job you probably heard about how black mages never like to move and you think to yourself i want to do that so you pick thaumaturge black mage is a cool caster dps that uses a lot of spells black mages are considered one of the more complicated classes in the game with a weird rotation but it's not actually that hard and just needs some explaining to get down so let's take a look let's start with your fire and ice phases you'll learn blizzard and fire very early on and you'll notice anytime you use either of them you'll see a red or blue symbol appear on your gauge this symbolizes which phase you are currently in as you level up you'll gain more stacks of your gauge when you're in your astral fire phase you'll be primarily spending your mp on fire for single targets and fire 2 for aoe at level 50 you'll unlock flare which will use up all of your mp to do an aoe attack when in your umbra ice phase you'll regain mp as you stay in your umbra ice phase you should be using blizzard for single targets and blizzard 2 for aoe you'll learn freeze at level 40 which is an aoe attack that you can use during your blizzard phase but it'll be more useful later on you can swap between your fire and ice phases using transpose but later on you will have other abilities that will swap your phases as well you also have thunder which is your damage overtime and thunder 2 which is an aoe damage over time that applies to nearby enemies at level 35 you'll unlock fire and blizzard 3. these can be used to swap between astral fire and your umbral ice phase while maintaining all of your gauge stacks at level 42 any time you cast fire you'll have a 40 chance of getting a fire starter proc which will allow you to use fire 3 without any cast time or any mp cost whenever you cast thunder at level 28 you'll have a 10 chance on each tick of the dot to proc thunder cloud which will allow you to use thunder or thunder 2 without any mp cost and no cast time you can guarantee a proc of fire starter and thunder cloud by using sharp cast for forecasting fire or thunder you'll also get a second charge of shark cast at level 88 at level 56 you'll get a nokian which will increase your damage dealt during your fire and ice phases by five percent it also allow fire too when used to give a buff called enhanced flare which will make flare do more damage when you use it at level 58 you'll get blizzard 4 which when used will give you 3 umbral hearts freeze will also give you 3 umbral hearts as well these umbral hearts will reduce the mp cost of your next 3 fire spells these should be primarily used on fire 4 which you get at level 60. fire 4 will be the spell you use almost all the time during your astral fire phase you will have to use fire in order to reset the timer of your face so make sure to refresh the timer at level 72 you'll get despair which will use up all of your mp in order to do a strong single target attack this should be the last move you cast during your astral fire phase before you run out of mp which then you can use blizzard 3 to swap back to your umbra ice face since it costs no mp to swap back umbral soul will allow you to refresh your umbra ice phase and give you an umbral heart on each use this move is primarily used during phase transitions or when moving around in dungeons to make sure you don't drop your umbrella ice face it's also just a fun move to press at level 52 you'll get your ley lines which will create a circle around you that will reduce your cast time of your spells blade lines is your best friend this circle will basically allow you to pump out more spells at a much faster rate the downside though you have to stay inside the circle in order to get its effect if for some reason you need to get out of your ley lines you can teleport back to them instantly using between the lines which you'll learn at level 62. at level 66 you'll unlock triple cast which will make your next three spells have no cast time triple cast is very useful for allowing you to still do dps even while moving at level 70 you'll get foul which can only be used when you have one polyglot you'll get a stack of polyglot every 30 seconds which can be used on follow for aoe and xenoglossy for single targets at level 80. you'll also be able to hold two polyglot and follow will become an instant cast at level 80 as well at level 86 you'll unlock amplifier which will give you a stack of polyglot instantly at level 90 you'll unlock paradox which is a strong single target attack that triggers when you swap to umbral ice phase from astral fire and when you swap to astral fire phase from having three umbral hearts in your umbra ice phase paradox will replace both fire and blizzard with paradox you no longer need to use fire 1 in order to refresh your astral fire phase when you swap from ash to fire to umbral ice paradox will be an instant cast so make sure to use it before swapping back to astral fire man award is a personal shield that lasts for 20 seconds manafont will regenerate 3000 mp you can use this during your astral fire phase in order to squeeze in more fire fours and even another despair ethereal manipulation will allow you to teleport to another party member this is very useful for letting someone else move to a safe spot while you sit there casting and then you teleport to them for safety scathe is a single target attack that has no cast time but yeah that basically sums up black mage so bye hey everybody thanks for watching if you liked the video consider subscribing to the channel and if you didn't know i stream on twitch i don't have a consistent schedule yet but i do stream me leveling classes or just whenever i'm bored i also have a discord where i announce whenever i go live on twitch whenever i upload a video or just to talk to you guys links are in the description below

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Length: 5min 40sec (340 seconds)

Published: Fri Mar 18 2022