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Mountain Buster (Blue Mage)

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Disambig icon.png This article is about the blue mage spell. For the summoner action, see Mountain Buster (Summoner).

Mountain Buster

Acquired
Blue Mage frame icon.png BLU (actions)
Level
1
Type
Ability
Index
46
Rank
★★★★★
Damage Type
Physical
Aspect
Blunt, Earth
MP Cost
400
Casting
Instant
Recast
60s
Range
0y
Radius
6y
AoE Type
Front Cone AoE icon.png Front Cone
Targeting
Point Blank AoE
Patch
4.5

Deals physical earth damage to all enemies in a cone before you with a potency of 400 for the first enemy, and 50% less for all remaining enemies.
Shares a recast timer with Shock Strike.

— In-game description

Mountain Buster is an action unlocked at level 1. It is available for Blue Mage.

Related actions

Flavor Text

In a devastating recreation of one of Titan's most fearsome techniques, Mountain Buster strikes opponents with an upheaval of earth-aspected aether, as if the land itself were ripping free of its confines to pulverize its defilers─or any unfortunate bystanders, as it were.

Acquisition

Duties

Tips

Acquisition Tips

On Titan, this action is an untelegraphed AoE tankbuster where Titan will create a wave of stone targeting the main tank. As the spell has no cast timer and is only cast late in The Navel (Hard), it is possible for Blue Mages to miss this spell from this trial. In The Navel (Extreme), Mountain Buster occurs earlier in the trial as Titan casts it intermittently between his rotations, so it may be possible for Blue Mages to learn this spell in an unsynched solo instance at later levels.

In The Navel (Extreme), it is recommended for Blue Mages to not DPS Titan beyond the first phase at the start of the battle, so that Titan can proceed to use Mountain Buster while having enough room to dodge his other attacks. Once Titan has used Mountain Buster, Blue Mages can then proceed to burst DPS and complete the trial as per normal.

Other Tips

History

  • SHB.png Patch 5.1 (2019-10-29):
    • Potency has been increased from 310 to 400.
    • Potency reduction after the first enemy is now fixed at 50%.
  • SB.png Patch 4.5 (2019-01-08): Added.