Blue Mage Leveling Guide - Endwalker 6.45 (2024)

Blue Mage starts at level 1 and has a maximum level of 80. The levelingprocess for Blue Mage is dramatically different from the rest of the jobs. SinceBlue Mage gets massively increased experience from enemies in the open world(10x) and is unable to queue for roulettes using the Duty Finder, the mosteffective way to level up is just by killing enemies in the open world!

There are three methods of leveling up: being powerleveled by someoneat max level, powerleveling yourself, or by manually solo leveling bykilling enemies around your level until you reach level cap. I'll explain eachmethod, but it's important to note that there is no practical benefit tomanually leveling solo. It takes significantly longer and you don't get to"learn" how to play Blue Mage while leveling. The game really starts for BlueMage at max level, so it's better to just get there ASAP. For Blue Mage,learning spells from enemies is more akin to leveling up other jobs. The actualprocess of leveling to 80 is merely a formality.

A full list of locations to use while leveling can be found located below, alongsidemaps for each set of levels.

As mentioned before, Blue Mage gets a massive bonus to experience fromdefeating enemies in the open world (outside of FATEs and duties). This bonusapplies to any enemy up to level 80, but no higher than 80. Experience inFFXIV is interesting because whoever tags the enemy first gets the fullexperience. Knowing this, we can level up by having a low level Blue Mage tag alevel 80 enemy and having a max level player kill that enemy. The result is thatthe Blue Mage will get the full experience for the enemy and level up extremelyquickly.

It is important to note that when powerleveling, the Blue Mage shouldnot be in a party with the max level player or they will receive verylittle experience. Being in a cross-world party is fine since that doesn'ttechnically count as a party. Additionally, multiple Blue Mages can bepowerleveled at once by being in a party together as long as they are close toeach other in level. If powerleveling multiple Blue Mages at different levels,start with the lowest level one first. Once they reach the level of the nextlowest, those Blue Mages can join a party together. Repeat the process until allare in a party and all reach level 80.

There is not a lot of preparation that is needed for this. I usuallyrecommend learning Flying Sardine since this is a rangedattack with no cast time. This can be learned from Apkallu in Eastern La Noscea(x:27, y:35). These enemies are level 30 so you will need help from the personpowerleveling you in order to learn it.

Once you know where you'll be power-leveling, the process is easy. The BlueMage tags an enemy and the max level player kills the enemy. Repeat until youreach level 80. The job of the max player doesn't matter too much as they're allabout the same. I personally like using shield healers since I can put a largeshield on the low level Blue Mages for extra safety and resurrect them in casethey do die somehow. Ranged DPS like Machinist is really good because of howquickly they are able to burst enemies while moving. Ultimately it makes verylittle difference in time.

When being power-leveled your gear doesn't matter at all! You can go from 1 to80 with no gear whatsoever.

It will take about an hour to go from 1 to 80 when being power-leveled. Theuse of experience buffs such as expansion preorder earrings, battle manuals, andfood will make the process faster.

There is an interesting enemy in The Tempest that lets us solo powerlevelourselves. Just north of The Ondo Cups there are Leeches and Clionids. WhenLeeches get close to Clionids, the Clionids eat them, but we get the experienceif we tagged it first! The basic idea is to aggro Leeches and pull them onto theClionids.

There is not a lot of preparation that is needed for this. Flying Sardine is helpful and being able to survive someattacks just in case is helpful, so it might not be ideal from level 1.

The process is simple: aggro a Leech, walk to a Clionid, Clionid kills theLeech, you get the experience. Be careful not to feed a single Clionid too muchor it grows and will one shot you!

It will take about an hour to go from 1 to 80 when being power-leveled. Theuse of experience buffs such as expansion preorder earrings, battle manuals, andfood will make the process faster.

The process for leveling up solo simply involves killing enemies at or aboveyour level until you reach level 80. This can be broken up into a few stages,but the only thing that changes in each stage is which spells you will use.

The process of solo leveling is pretty boring and grindy. We will break it upinto three phases: before 1000 Needles, 1000 Needles, after 1000 Needles.

Our goal before learning 1000 Needles is simply to get to a level at which wecan learn 1000 Needles. If you have someone that can help you learn it, then youcan do this at level 1. Otherwise, you will need to run around killing enemiesuntil you reach roughly level 20.

1000 Needles has an interesting property where it alwaysdeals exactly 1,000 damage evenly split by all enemies around you. 1,000 damageis enough to kill enemies in one or two casts early on, even enemies that are amuch higher level. We can abuse this to level up slightly faster.

1000 Needles is learned from Sabotender Bailaors inSouthern Thanalan (x:16, y:15). Sabotender Bailaors are level 25-27, so we areable to kill these at roughly level 20. Once we have learned the spell we areable to start this stage of the leveling process.

All we want to do at this point is use 1000 Needles to killenemies. This will one-shot enemies for a bit, but eventually it will take twocasts. For extra safety we can use Sleep which will allow us to getthe full 6-second cast off. Swiftcast can also be used to make thecast instant

This process can be repeated until we reach the point where spamming astandard 220 potency spell is faster than using 1000 Needles. At that point, weenter the final (and longest) phase of the leveling process

1000 Needles does exactly 167 DPS since it does 1,000damage and has a cast time of 6 seconds. Once a standard 220 potency fillerspell does more than 167 DPS, it is faster to use that. Given a 2.5 secondrecast time, this means once we're doing 417 damage per cast that it is betterto switch spells. I recommend using The Ram's Voice since it hasthe benefit of freezing enemies making them unable to attack for 15 seconds.

Once we get to about level 50, we can learn Choco Meteorfrom Courser Chocobos in The Dravaniand Forelands (x:34, y:28). This deals awhopping 300 potency when we have our companion chocobo summoned, which is themost powerful spammable spell we have in the open world until we reach level 80.At this point we will just spam Choco Meteor (and optionally The Ram's Voice to reduce damage taken) until we reach level 80

There isn't really a great answer to this since there are many options. Youmostly just need to find enemies around your level and kill them. An easy way tofigure out a level-appropriate zone is by seeing the level of FATEs in thatzone. Some suggestions might be:

• Levels 1-15: Western Thanalan
• Levels 15-20: Western La Noscea
• Levels 20-30: South Shroud
• Levels 30-35: Eastern La Noscea
• Levels 35-40: Coerthas Central Highlands
• Levels 40-45: East Shroud
• Levels 45-50: Mor Dhona
• Levels 50-55: Dravanian Forelands / Churning Mists
• Levels 55-60: Sea of Clouds / Azys Lla
• Levels 60-65: The Peaks / Yanxia
• Levels 65-70: Yanxia / The Lochs
• Levels 70-75: Amh Araeng / Kholusia
• Levels 75-80: Rak'tika / The Tempest

When you get past the point of using 1000 Needles you willwant to make sure that you have level-appropriate casting gear. This basicallymeans using vendor/crafted gear below 50, and then Tomestone of Poetics gearthereafter. At level 50 you can use Ironworks gear and level 60 you can useShire gear.

It will take many hours to get to level 80 when leveling solo. As I mentionedbefore, there is very no practical benefit to leveling this way. It is onlymentioned here as an option, but it is important to recognize that it should beavoided if possible.