FFXI Blue Mage 1000 Needles

[Bloodyidit]

this spell is great for teams with a tank, so you can focus on casting while he keeps em busy.

[xBulletFan2091x]

Great agains the Jailer of Fortitutde if you can get it to land.

[cewolfen]

Overkill much? The spell isn't truly worth it considering the amount of mp used to cast and the cast time. It's mostly a flashy spell, good for that time when you show off and rape millions of mobs at a time but that's pretty much all it's good for. If SE would have made it a little more efficiet MP wise it would be considered a superb nuke spell

[Bloodyidit]

@cewolfen

and thats why mages are a bit expensive.

they need lots of dry ethers.

[supermant25]

its a strong spell but bad thing about 1000 needle its has long cast and can be interupted very easy with ichi or ni to maintain block while casting.

[Littlelink91]

Holy frick 1000 damage? Thats LEGENDARY in this freaking game.

[PlayerHater412]

nah 10000 is

[CrimsonDivine]

Almost not worth casting if you ask me. How long it takes and how much MP it takes up is rediculous, only thing it would be worth casting on is multiple mobs that are Easy Prey. But here's one question, how many EP mobs do you know with around say 500HP at the level you manage to obtain that spell? Probably not many, I bet cool down takes long too?

[UltimteLifeForm]

what class goes best for a sub quest with blue mage? what about red mage?

[Gohma1234]

thf is best for damage

nin for solo

and i heard good things about dancer

[bitmerquis]

BST is best for solo or SMN or PUP (with good gear) RDM NIN BLU DNC DRG come latter on.

best dmg hmm SAM or BLU (considering you have the MP to keep it up) closely followed by Mnks, thf atm are more of a "Hey THF we need your treasure hunter for this NM" and eventually a "Hey pull the hate back into the tank", as for dmg nealy any DD can out dmg them, same for blms, high dmg but they cant keep up with constant Dmg + high dmg ws

[proniga]

isnt it called 10,000 needles?

[OhhhMyAxels]

Nope. 10,000 needles isn't a Blue Spell you can learn, and only Nightmare Sabotenders and Cactrot Rapido can use it in this game. If you could cast 10,000 needles in this game, it'd be completely lopsided. 1,000 needles is good enough, if you ask me.

[rockfootfootfoot]

That goblin didn't stand a chance lol

[lespaul862]

How much damage does 1000 needles do when a blue mage uses it? Is it dependent on blu magic skill, or does it really do anywhere near 1000 dmg? Noob question I know..just wondering though.

[shinigamiabarairenji]

1000 needles will do 1000 damage to a single enemy when used. If there's more than one enemy that gets hit by it, the damage will be divided between the enemies hit, so if 2 enemies get hit they'll take 500 each, 3 would take 333 each and so forth. There are many downsides to this spell though: it costs 5 points to set, it takes forever to cast, it costs 350MP to cast (that's huge)...

[shinigamiabarairenji]

...also it's the only magical BLU spell that can fail like a physical spell (but if it hits it will always do full damage unlike the other magical BLU spells except on rare occasions when fighting certain mobs with special defensive capabilities). This is why it's almost never used. Later on BLU gets spells like Disseverment and Hysteric Barrage which can often do over 1000 damage specially when combined with the Chain Affinity ability and only cost around 70MP to cast and cast instantly.

[thakidace]

He is like...."Well fuck...."

[GameKingMartin]

Were do you get it at?

[Xtreme2252]

lmao

[Bobertmillsy456]

hahah, that made me happy, fookin gob bastard

[ArchAngel5750]

lol that was a little unneccasary...lol

[ArchAngel5750]

lol poor goblin...

[Renjhano]

I don't even want to think of where he stores all of those needles....

[deadeyex54x]

That was so friggin awsome lol, just like in the previous FF games :D

[SaintHavoc]

Owned lol