Blue Mage Melding, Stat Priority, and Consumables - Endwalker 6.45 (2024)

Last updated on Jul 23, 2023 at 05:53by Liam18 comments

On this page, you will find the best melding choices and consumables, aswell as the stat priority they are based on, for Blue Mage in Final FantasyXIV: Endwalker (Patch 6.45).

This section covers stat priority, materia melding, and consumables for BlueMage. For full gearsets, refer to the Blue Mage gearing page.

Blue Mage is in a unique spot where it benefits from all DPS stats prettyequally. What this means in practice is that your gear actually means verylittle and it mostly just comes down to practice. That being said, the prioritycan be simplified to the following:

1. Intelligence
2. Spell Speed until Moon Flute opener can be performed consistently.
3. Spell Speed and/or Critical Hit
4. Determination
5. Direct Hit
6. Spell Speed or Critical Hit (whichever wasn't used before)

We actually are able to go for a hybrid Crit/SpS build because of the newlevel 80 gear. This is the best option for a general-purpose build, as it allowsyou to comfortably perform the Moon Flute opener with respectable damage andstill play as tank and healer when needed. The gearing page outlines this inmore detail.

Blue Mage has a different damage formula from the rest of the combat jobs.All of our weapons have exactly 1 weapon damage and we scale a bit more fromIntelligence as a result. Generally speaking, we will always want to go for thehighest item level gear that is available since this will have the mostIntelligence.

The biggest part of doing DPS at Blue Mage comes down to whether or not youcan consistently pull off a full MoonFlute opener. This is doable with 0 additional Spell Speed, but it is highlyping dependent. The first step in gearing should be to figure out what GCD youneed in order to do this comfortably and meld to reach that

Blue Mage can optimize for either Spell Speed or Critical Hit and performapproximately equally. Spell Speed will perform more consistently, whileCritical Hit has a slightly higher damage ceiling. This is still being testedfor level 80, but initial calculations show the same result.

If you plan on playing Blue Mage as a tank or healer, Spell Speed will be thebest choice. All of our mitigations are tied to a cast time, so minimizing thatcast time is crucial. As healer, all of our heals will be tied to the GCD so itis safer to minimize that cast time as well.

Blue Mage benefits more from Determination than Direct Hit, but thedifference is quite small. With DPS Mimicry we gain an additional +20% DirectHit chance for free. Direct Hit scales linearly, which means as we add moreDirect Hit each additional point of Direct Hit is relatively "weaker."Determination also scales linearly, but since we don't get a bunch for free itmakes our free Direct Hit scaling more impactful as well. Because of this,Determination is very slightly better than Direct Hit for DPS.

If we're playing as a tank or healer we definitely prefer Determination. As atank we will likely have Mighty Guard on so our DPS is quitelow by default, which means the already small difference can be completelyignored. As a healer, we are able to add additional healing potency to our healsthrough Determination.

The materia melding follows the stat priority mentioned above, so the logicfor melding is pretty straightforward. If playing tank or healer, meld as muchSpell Speed and Determination as you can. You can also do this for DPS, or youcan meld as much Critical Hit and Determination if you prefer. If your main stat(Spell Speed or Critical Hit) and Determination are capped on an item, use extramelds for Direct Hit.

Potions in FFXIV are pretty simple and follow the same logic as all otherjobs: pick whichever potion gives you the most of your primary stat. For us thatis Intelligence, and Grade 5 Tincture of Intelligence will cap out forus. Higher grades are fine, too, we just don't get any additional benefit. Usewhatever is cheapest.

The food you use will depend on which stats you're optimizing for. Thegearsets listed on the Blue Mage GearPage will list appropriate food.