Blue Mage DPS Spell Summary — Endwalker 6.3

This page will outline the actual process for how to learn Blue Mage spells, as well as list all spells and where to learn them.

As with other Final Fantasy games, Blue Mage learns spells by defeating enemies who use those spells. It's not quite that simple, as there are some details that aren't explained in-game.

At minimum, the following criteria must be met to learn a spell:

• The enemy must use the spell before it dies.
• The enemy must actually die. For example, you cannot learn Perpetual Ray from Onslaughter in Burden of the Son because Onslaughter never dies, it just leaves the arena.
• You must be alive when the enemy dies.

Some spells are learned by satisfying certain conditions and then using a totem item. Totems can be acquired from Wayward Gaheel Ja in Ul'dah - Steps of Thal (x:13, y:13). These spells can only be learned from the totem, even if an enemy casts a spell with the same name (e.g. Enkidu and White Wind).

There are only two things that affect the learn rate of a spell: the spell's star rating (1 to 5 stars) and whether or not the content is level synced. In general, if a spell has a higher star rating then it has a lower learn chance. However, if you are running group duties level synced, you are guaranteed to learn spells. The following do not count as group duties and follow whatever the spell's unsynced learn rate is:

• Masked Carnivale
• FATEs
• Open world combat

There are two spells that are exceptions to this. Mind Blast and Glower are both guaranteed learns even when unsynced, probably because they are required for job quests.

There are a lot of myths around spell learning chances, and in some of the other games these did actually matter. However, none of these things have any affect on your chance to learn a spell:

• Number of times the enemy casts the spell.
• Number of Blue Mages in the party.
• Having non-Blue Mages in the party.
• Party item level (i.e. minimum item level setting has no effect)
• Whether or not you get hit by the spell.
• Silencing echo.
• The difficulty of the duty (Hard vs. Extreme)

Unsynced learn rates haven't been published anywhere, but we have enough anecdotal evidence to estimate that 1-star spells have about a 50% learn rate and 5-star spells have about a 5% learn rate.

The most common question people will ask after reading this is "should I do things synced or unsynced?" It is absolutely better to run things synced where possible since you are guaranteed to learn the spells. All open world and dungeon spells can be learned solo synced because of Basic Instinct. The three cases where it might be easier to do it unsynced is for Feather Rain and Glass Dance where they come from Extreme trials, or Aetheric Mimicry, where it comes from infinitely spawning adds during the first boss.

3.

Blue Mage Spell Locations and Additional Information

Below you will find a table that lists all spells and their locations. Unfortunately not all spells are particularly useful, so there will be some notes about general usefulness or quirks of spells in the table. Additionally, some "bait" locations that are generally bad have been omitted (e.g. A ranks). In general, locations will be listed in order of convenience/ease of access.

Spells 1-10 Spells 11-20 Spells 21-30 Spells 31-40 Spells 41-50 Spells 51-60 Spells 61-70 Spells 71-80 Spells 81-90 Spells 91-100 Spells 101-104

3.1.

Spells 1-10

Spell	Spell Location	Extra Notes
1. Water Cannon	Learned by default when unlocking Blue Mage.
2. Flame Thrower	Magitek Gunship - The Keeper of the Lake Gobmachine G-VI - Brayflox's Longstop (Hard) Omega - Alphascape v3.0
3. Aqua Breath	Ultros - The Dragon's Neck Leviathan - The Whorleater (Hard or Extreme) Ultros - Masked Carnivale: 20. Miss Typhon
4. Flying Frenzy	Zu - Pharos Sirius	In order to trigger the spell being cast, you must break two eggs to cause Zu to enrage. You should have the party spread out, since Flying Frenzy does a lot of damage and stuns you. Zu is vulnerable to death effects, so you can use Level 5 Death to kill it quickly after the enrage.
5. Drill Cannons	Magitek Vanguard H-2 - Northern Thanalan (x:16, y:15) Magitek Vangob G-III - Brayflox's Longstop (Hard) Magitek Vanguard, Magitek Vanguard H-1 - Castrum Meridianum
6. High Voltage	Bestial Node - Masked Carnivale: 15. The Me Nobody Nodes ADS - The Binding Coil of Bahamut (Turn 1 and 2)
7. Loom	Flame Sergeant Dalvag - Northern Thanalan (B mark) Baalzephon - The Lost City of Amdapor Dantalion and Phantom Knight - The Tam-Tara Deepcroft (Hard)	After engaging the enemy, you need to move away to make it use Loom to teleport to you.
8. Final Sting	Killer Wespe - Middle La Noscea (x:15, y:15) Temple Bee - The Sunken Temple of Qarn
9. Song of Torment	Siren - Pharos Sirius
10. Glower	Coincounter - The Aurum Vale	This spell has a 100% learn chance even unsynced.

3.2.

Spells 11-20

11. Plaincracker	Clay Golem - North Shroud (x:19, y:29) Sandstone Golem - Southern Thanalan (x:22, y:12) Basalt Golem - Outer La Noscea (x:16, y:15) Azulmagia - Masked Carnivale: 25. Dirty Rotten Azulmagia
12. Bristle	Wild Boar - East Shroud (x:18, y:24)	Bristle boosts the potency of all Spells by 50%, but does not boost the potency of Abilities. This is visible in the tooltip of each spell. A good rule of thumb is that GCD actions like Matra Magic are spells and OGCD actions like Nightbloom are abilities.
13. White Wind	Totem - Learn 10 Spells
14. Level 5 Petrify	Manor Sentry - Haukke Manor
15. Sharpened Knife	Tonberry King - The Wanderer's Palace
16. Ice Spikes	Trickster Imp - Central Shroud (x:27, y:24) Manor Jester - Haukke Manor Azulmagia - Masked Carnivale: 25. Dirty Rotten Azulmagia	Used only in Masked Carnivale: 12. The Plant-om of the Opera.
17. Blood Drain	Chigoe - Central Shroud (x:25, y:20) Cave Bat - Lower La Noscea (x:27, y:16) Attic Bat - Haukke Manor	This spell is critical to maintaining MP levels while using expensive spells like White Wind and Diamondback!
18. Acorn Bomb	Treant Sapling - North Shroud (x:24, y:28), Central Shroud (x:27, y:15), East Shroud (x:12, y:25)	This spell is mostly useless after Sleep was added.
19. Bomb Toss	Goblin Fisher & Gambler - Middle La Noscea (x:23, y:21)
20. Off-guard	Totem - Learn 5 Spells	Stacks and shares a cooldown with Peculiar Light.

3.3.

Spells 21-30

21. Self-destruct	Glide Bomb - Western Thanalan (x:27, y:16) "Bomb" Enemies - Copperbell Mines, Halatali, Cutter's Cry Cherry Bomb - Masked Carnivale: 08. The Bomb-edy of Errors
22. Transfusion	Totem - Learn 20 Spells	Our most useless spell!
23. Faze	Qiqirn Shellsweeper - Central Thanalan (x:9, y:19) Qiqirn Eggdigger - Lower La Noscea (x:19, y:35)
24. Flying Sardine	Apkallu - Eastern La Noscea (x:27, y:35)
25. Snort	Typhon - The Dragon's Neck Typhon - Masked Carnivale: 20. Miss Typhon and 27. Lock Up Your Snorters	In The Dragon's Neck, Typhon uses Snort quite late into the fight. There are many spells similar to Snort, but only the one actually called "Snort" counts.
26. 4-tonze Weight	Ultros - The Dragon's Neck	This is the only spell locked behind the Hildibrand questline. It has some niche use in A8S for slowing down orbs!
27. The Look	Denezen of the Dark - Mor Dhona Levequest: "Necrologos: The Liminal Ones" Anantaboga - Amdapor Keep Valefor - The Labyrinth of the Ancients
28. Bad Breath	Stroper - Central Shroud (x:13, y:21), South Shroud (x:20, y:28) Haliostroper - Central Shroud (x:15, y:21) Morbol - Aurum Vale Reflective Rebekah - Masked Carnivale: 19. On a Clear Day You Can Smell Forever	The damage down component works on all enemies, making this functionally similar to Reprisal.
29. Diamondback	Cuca Fera - The Stone Vigil (Hard)	Cuca Fera is vulnerable to Death effects, so you can kill it easily after it uses Diamondback. When using Diamondback you are unable to move for 10 seconds and there is no way to cancel this early. Diamondback's mitigation is twice as effective as Tank LB3!
30. Mighty Guard	Totem - Learn 10 Spells	This reduces damage dealt by 40%. This should only be used as a tank, when using Basic Instinct, or when mitigation is needed.

3.4.

Spells 31-40

31. Sticky Tongue	Toxic Toad - Central Thanalan (x:27, y:19) Laughing Toad - Western Thanalan (x:15, y:6)	The extra threat is negligible. It mostly only matters for golems in The Second Coil of Bahamut (Turn 4). However, this spell is still extremely important for The Second Coil of Bahamut (Turn 4) and some Masked Carnivale stages!
32. Toad Oil	Giggling Gigantoad - Western Thanalan (x:15, y:7)	This is a "bait" spell. Outside of buffing Self-destruct it is functionally useless.
33. The Ram's Voice	Chimera - Cutter's Cry Dhorme Chimera - A Relic Reborn: The Chimera Azulmagia - Masked Carnivale: 25. Dirty Rotten Azulmagia
34. The Dragon's Voice	Chimera - Cutter's Cry Dhorme Chimera - A Relic Reborn: The Chimera Azulmagia - Masked Carnivale: 25. Dirty Rotten Azulmagia	The AOE pattern for this ability is a large donut shape. It is useful in certain fights for hitting multiple ranged targets at once.
35. Missile	Enkidu - Battle in the Big Keep Guardian - Sigmascape v3.0	Has roughly 67% accuracy. Reduces HP by 50% of current HP. If two Blue Mages use this on the same server tick, the enemy might die instantly!
36. 1000 Needles	Sabetonder Bailaor - Southern Thanalan (x:15, y:15)
37. Ink Jet	Kraken - Sastasha (Hard)	Mostly useless, but can be used in Masked Carnivale: 19. On a Clear Day You Can Smell Forever to blind yourself and dodge the Schizocarps!
38. Fire Angon	Frumious Koheel Ja - The Wanderer's Palace (Hard)
39. Moon Flute	Totem - Complete 10 Masked Carnivale stages	Buffs all damage by 50% for 15 seconds, followed by being unable to use job or role actions for 15 seconds ( Sprint is usable). Effective use of this ability is the most important thing for increasing your DPS as a Blue Mage. For more info, see the Blue Mage Rotation guide.
40. Tail Screw	Karlabos - Sastasha (Hard)	Has roughly 10% accuracy.

3.5.

Spells 41-50

41. Mind Blast	Galvanth the Dominator - The Tam-Tara Deepcroft Blaster - Alexander: The Burden of the Son	This spell has a 100% learn chance from Galvanth the Dominator even unsynced.
42. Doom	Totem - Clear 20 Masked Carnivale stages	Has roughly 33% accuracy.
43. Peculiar Light	Lentic Mudpuppy - Mor Dhona (x:13, y:10)	Stacks and shares a cooldown with Off-guard.
44. Feather Rain	Garuda - The Howling Eye (Extreme)	Shares a cooldown with Eruption.
45. Eruption	Ifrit - The Bowl of Embers (Normal, Hard, or Extreme)	Shares a cooldown with Feather Rain. This can be learned on normal solo synced easily with Mighty Guard, White Wind, and 1000 Needles.
46. Mountain Buster	Titan - The Navel (Hard or Extreme)	Shares a cooldown with Shock Strike.
47. Shock Strike	Ramuh - The Striking Tree (Hard or Extreme)	Shares a cooldown with Mountain Buster.
48. Glass Dance	Shiva - Akh Afah Amphitheatre (Extreme)	Shares a cooldown with Veil of the Whorl.
49. Veil of the Whorl	Leviathan - The Whorleater (Hard or Extreme)	Shares a cooldown with Glass Dance.
50. Alpine Draft	Griffin - The Sea of Clouds (x:36, y:9) Opinicus - The Dusk Vigil

3.6.

Spells 51-60

51. Protean Wave	Shikigami of the Undertow - Masked Carnivale: 29. Red, Fraught, and Blue Living Liquid - Alexader: The Arm of the Father	This can be learned from the tornadoes during Shikigami of the Undertow. When they despawn you have a chance to learn the spell.
52. Northerlies	"Yeti" Enemies - Coerthas Wstern Highlands (x:20, y:31) and (x:17, y:27), and Snowcloak
53. Electrogenesis	Conodont - The Sea of Clouds (x:26, y:33)
54. Kaltstrahl	Faust and Strum Dolls - Alexander: The Fist of the Father Jagd Doll - Alexander: The Cuff of the Father
55. Abyssal Transfixion	Arch Demon - Foundation Levequest: "Necrologos: His Treasure Forhelen" Ash - Haukke Manor (Hard) Everlasting Bibliotaph - The Great Gubal Library (fail third "chain" mechanic and spawn adds)
56. Chirp	Paissa - The Sea of Clouds (x:19, y:35)	This spell is mostly useless after Sleep was added.
57. Eerie Soundwave	Empuse - Azys Lla Enkidu - Battle in the Big Keep Arioch - The Lost City of Amdapor
58. Pom Cure	Furryfoot Kupil Kipp - Thornmarch (Hard or Extreme)
59. Gobskin	Alexandrian Hider - Alexander: The Breath of the Creator	This can easily be done solo synced since it comes from one of the trash mobs before the actual boss.
60. Magic Hammer	Apanda - The Great Gubal Library (Hard) Epilogi - Masked Carnivale: 24. Amazing Technicolor Pit Fiends

3.7.

Spells 61-70

61. Avail	Queen Hawk - Saint Mocianne's Arboretum	This is the opposite of Cover. Any mitigations that the receiver has active do apply to the damage taken.
62. Frog Legs	Poroggo - The Dravanian Hinterlands (x:12, y:35)	This is a very close range AOE spell. It does not function like Provoke which gives you additional enmity after taking aggro, instead it sets your enmity exactly equal to whoever has the most enmity.
63. Sonic Boom	Anzu - The Sea of Clouds (x:21, y:6) Zu - Pharos Sirius	Because of its range and cast time, this is our most reliable filler spell!
64. Whistle	Dhalmel - The Sea of Clouds (x:16, y:30)	Bristle boosts the potency of all Physical Spells by 80%, but does not boost the potency of Abilities. This is visible in the tooltip of each spell. A good rule of thumb is that GCD actions like Final Sting are spells and OGCD actions like J Kick are abilities.
65. White Knight's Tour	White Knight - The Vault
66. Black Knight's Tour	Black Knight - The Vault
67. Level 5 Death	Page 64 - The Great Gubal Library	Has roughly 90% accuracy. Sometimes this enemy just takes a very long time to cast the spell.
68. Launcher	Armored Weapon - Baelsar's Wall Doman Armored Weapon - Doma Castle	Has 100% accuracy.
69. Perpetual Ray	The Manipulator - Alexander: The Burden of the Father	This can be used to cheese certain things like Diabolos in Dun Scaith or some achievement FATEs like Special Tarasque Force.
70. Cactguard	Sabotender Guardia - The Sunken Temple of Qarn (Hard)	Since this spell can only be used on other targets and is relatively weak in terms of mitigation it is functionally useless.

3.8.

Spells 71-80

71. Revenge Blast	Totem - Learn 50 Spells
72. Angel Whisper	Totem - Complete 30 Masked Carnivale stages	Every Blue Mage should have this if they plan on running group content. The spell has a 5 minute cooldown, so it is beneficial if everyone in the group has it. Raises are a very high-value resource in Blue Mage groups.
73. Exuviation	Abalathian Wamoura - The Sea of Clouds Wamoura - The Lost City of Amdapor	To trigger the spell cast, you must attack an additional enemy nearby and get its health low.
74. Reflux	Cloud Wyvern - The Churning Mists (x:23, y:29)
75. Devour	Decaying Gourmand - The Lost City of Amdapor Nullchu - Saint Mocianne's Arboretum (Hard) Cerberus - World of Darkness	If you are trying to learn this solo from Decaying Gourmand, you need to time a damage-over-time spell or Doom to kill it after it uses Devour.
76. Condensed Libra	Mechanoscribe - The Great Gubal Library (Hard) Arena Scribe - Masked Carnivale: 24. Amazing Technicolor Pit Fiends	This was a core spell at level 60, but due to spell slot restrictions isn't used frequently at level 70!
77. Aetheric Mimicry	Ghrah Luminary - Pharos Sirius (Hard)	This is the spell that allows us to play as any role!
78. Surpanakha	Ravana - Thok ast Thok (Hard or Extreme)	All 4 charges should be used at once, as the bonus makes the hits do 200, 300, 400, and finally 500 potency.
79. Quasar	Sophia - Containment Bay P1T6	Shares a cooldown with J Kick. This is rarely used, since the mobility from J Kick is generally more helpful.
80. J Kick	Brute Justice - Alexander: The Burden of the Son	Shares a cooldown with Quasar.

3.9.

Spells 81-90

81. Triple Trident	Ebisu Catfish - Yanxia (x:28, y:6)
82. Tingle	Ebisu Catfish - Yanxia (x:28, y:6)	The 100 potency buff applies to all three hits of Triple Trident.
83. Tatami-gaeshi	Dojun-maru - Kugane Castle
84. Cold Fog	Mist Dragon - The Burn	In order to learn this spell, you must fail the mechanic with three heads during Mist Dragon. When this spell is triggered, for the next 15 seconds you are able to use White Death which is an instant cast 400 potency GCD.
85. Stotram	Lakshmi - Emanation	This is our best AOE damage spell for 4 or more targets (when not under Healer Mimicry).
86. Saintly Beam	Phantom Train - Sigmascape v1.0
87. Feculent Flood	Tokkapchi - Saint Mocianne's Arboretum (Hard)
88. Angel's Snack	Totem - Reach level 70	Shares a cooldown with Dragon Force and Matra Magic.
89. Chelonian Gate	Genbu - Hells' Lid	Shares a cooldown with The Rose of Destruction. When channeling, you are unable to move. If a certain amount of damage is taken, you can do massive damage as a tank especially if paired with Bristle. This spell is sometimes called The Bluest Night in reference to The Blackest Night.
90. The Rose of Destruction	Ivon Coeurlfist - Temple of the Fist	Shares a cooldown with Chelonian Gate.

3.10.

Spells 91-100

91. Basic Instinct	Master Coeurl - Upper La Noscea (x:9, y:21) Coeurl Sruti or Smriti - Temple of the Fist
92. Ultravibration	Kongamato - The Peaks (x:11, y:25)	This has 100% accuracy and works on all enemies that can be frozen or petrified. The freeze/petrify and Ultravibration combo is sometimes called "Vibe Check."
93. Blaze	Alte Roite - Deltascape v1.0
94. Mustard Bomb	Omega - Alphascape v3.0	Most bosses are immune to the Lightheaded debuff.
95. Dragon Force	Totem - Learn 100 Spells	Shares a cooldown with Angel's Snack and Matra Magic.
96. Aetherial Spark	Salt Dhruva - The Lochs (x:22, y:22)	Since this doesn't stack with Song of Torment and Nightbloom, it is mostly useless.
97. Hydro Pull	Kelpie - Drowned City of Skalla	This spell is very helpful for rounding up enemies to then kill with the Vibe Check combo.
98. Malediction of Water	Sai Taisui - The Swallow's Compass
99. Choco Meteor	Courser Chocobo - The Dravanian Forelands (x:34, y:28)	This is the strongest filler spell we have in the open world. Inside of duties it's not very strong since we cannot summon chocobos inside duties.
100. Matra Magic	Totem - Learn 100 Spells	Shares a cooldown with Angel's Snack and Dragon Force.

3.11.

Spells 101-104

101. Peripheral Synthesis	Omega - Alphascape v3.0	Most bosses are immune to the Lighthearded debuff.
102. Both Ends	Qitian Dasheng - The Swallow's Compass	Shares a cooldown with Nightbloom. Outside of some very niche scenarios where you need to kill lots of enemies quickly, you will rarely use this spell.
103. Phantom Flurry	Suzaku - Hells' Kier
104. Nightbloom	Tsukuyomi - Castrum Fluminis	Shares a cooldown with Both Ends.

The only real answer here is that you should learn every spell. If you intend on playing DPS or tank you will need to learn at least 100 spells anyway to learn Matra Magic and Dragon Force. As for "best" spells, it is largely situational.

Many fights and encounters will require specific spells to handle certain mechanics, which we will call "utility spells." One example of this is Devour which we use in Alexander - The Burden of the Son (Savage), or A8S, to resolve the Gavel mechanic.

With all of this in mind, here are some general loadouts for each role that will cover most situations.

The last three spots can be used for utility spells. If you need even more utility spells, the order to drop spells is Glass Dance followed by Whistle

The main healer will primarily be using Pom Cure to keep the tank alive and Stotram to keep the party alive. If you need utility spells, the order to drop spells is Whistle, then Cold Fog, then the Triple Trident combo. While Cold Fog is incredibly strong, it is unlikely you will get a full usage of it as the main healer

The off healer will play primarily as a DPS, but helps heal where necessary (such as after raidwide damage). If you need utility spells, the order to drop spells is Glass Dance followed by Whistle.

Tanks actually have the most flexibility in terms of spell slots! We mostly just keep our MP healthy with Blood Drain and Magic Hammer so that we can mitigate tankbusters with Diamondback and help heal with White Wind. Mighty Guard reduces the damage we deal by 40%, so we're not going to be doing that much damage to begin with! If you need even more utility spells, the order to drop spells is Glass Dance followed by Cold Fog. Just like with main healer it is unlikely that we will be able to make full use of Cold Fog so it is safe to drop it.