Damage · BLM
Glass cannon with a death wish. Owns the burst window.
In a party
End the fight. One with a greatsword and borrowed dark, one with the whole sky.
The heaviest spell damage in the game and the least health to back it up. Black Mages have no weaponskills: they wait for the party’s skillchain, then burst it with the matching element for far more damage.
Sleep holds an extra monster still, Aspir pulls magic back from the target, and the spell lists reach all three elements, so there is always something to burst with.
Moonmere · guild of the Black Mage
Moonmere’s academy kept every book it could carry into exile. The burned shelf is the one it was told to destroy, and did not, quite.
“It’s not a fire. It’s a citation.”
Moonmere’s claim: Inheritance. The imperial academy in exile, and the only people who can read the interior’s records.
Stats
Each stat starts at a base and gains a fixed amount every level; the race then multiplies it. HP is 30 plus 13 a level, times the race’s HP modifier, plus Vitality. MP is 10 plus 12 a level, times the MP modifier.
| Stat | Level 1 | Per level | Level 50 |
|---|---|---|---|
| STRStrength | 4 | +0.8 | 43 |
| VITVitality | 5 | +1 | 54 |
| AGIAgility | 6 | +1.2 | 65 |
| INTIntelligence | 12 | +2.9 | 154 |
| MNDMind | 7 | +1.4 | 76 |
| HPHit points | 48 | +13 | 734 |
| MPMagic points | 22 | +12 | 610 |
Aedri figures, before gear. HP includes Vitality.
A level 50 Aedri Black Mage, before gear. Bars are measured against the highest any job and race reach at level 50.
Abilities
17 abilities from level 1 to 50. Click a column to sort.
| Ability | Kind | Lv | Cost | Cast | Recast | Element | Target | Effect | Combo |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stone | Spell | 1 | 6 MP | 1.8 s | — | Steel | Enemy | Hurls a spike of earth.Power 20 | — |
| Aero | Spell | 4 | 8 MP | 2 s | — | Steel | Enemy | A cutting wind off the Mere.Power 27 | — |
| Blizzard | Spell | 6 | 11 MP | 2.4 s | — | Shadow | Enemy | Cold from the starless dark.Power 34 | — |
| Fire | Spell | 10 | 15 MP | 2.6 s | — | Radiance | Enemy | Borrowed flame. Bursts radiance skillchains.Power 46 | — |
| Sleep | Spell | 12 | 12 MP | 2 s | — | Shadow | Enemy | Sings a monster into stillness. Breaks on damage.20 s | — |
| Aspir | Spell | 14 | No MP | 2 s | — | Shadow | Enemy | Draws the target's mana into your own.Power 18 | — |
| Stone II | Spell | 16 | 22 MP | 2.8 s | — | Steel | Enemy | The earth answers twice.Power 68 | — |
| Blizzard II | Spell | 20 | 30 MP | 2.8 s | — | Shadow | Enemy | Cold from further up.Power 92 | — |
| Fire II | Spell | 24 | 36 MP | 3 s | — | Radiance | Enemy | Flame with a footnote.Power 118 | — |
| Stone III | Spell | 26 | 42 MP | 3 s | — | Steel | Enemy | The mountain's third argument.Power 150 | — |
| Sleep II | Spell | 30 | 26 MP | 2.2 s | — | Shadow | Enemy | A longer lullaby. Breaks on damage.30 s | — |
| Thunder | Spell | 34 | 58 MP | 3.4 s | — | Shadow | Enemy | Borrowed sky, delivered with interest.Power 210 | — |
| Blizzard III | Spell | 38 | 64 MP | 3.4 s | — | Shadow | Enemy | The winter the North Road remembers.Power 240 | — |
| Stone IV | Spell | 42 | 76 MP | 3.6 s | — | Steel | Enemy | The mountain stops arguing.Power 280 | — |
| Thunder II | Spell | 46 | 92 MP | 3.8 s | — | Shadow | Enemy | The sky, twice.Power 330 | — |
| Flare | Spell | 48 | 110 MP | 4.2 s | — | Radiance | Enemy | One sun, lit all at once.Power 380 | — |
| Freeze | Spell | 50 | 120 MP | 4.4 s | — | Shadow | Enemy | Three hundred years of stillness, delivered in one breath.Power 420 | — |
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Magic bursts
The Black Mage has no weaponskills. Its work starts when someone else’s skillchain lands: 6 seconds to cast a spell of the chain’s element for 1.75× the damage.
Cast inside the 6-second window after a skillchain of the same element for 1.75× the damage.
Gear
A Black Mage wields staffs and wears cloth. A few standout pieces at each stage, chosen for the stats this job grows into: