Aetheric Mimicry

 

Aetheric Mimicry

Acquired

BLU (actions)

Level

1

Type

Spell

Index

77

Rank

★★★★

MP Cost

300

Casting

1s

Recast

2.5s (GCD)

Range

25y

Radius

0y

Targeting

Ally

Patch

5.15

“

Mirror the aetheric properties of your target, granting yourself a beneficial effect corresponding with the target's role.
If target is a tank, grants Aetheric Mimicry: Tank, increasing your defense and augmenting certain blue magic spells.
If target is a DPS, grants Aetheric Mimicry: DPS, increasing critical hit rate and direct hit rate by 20%, as well as augmenting certain blue magic spells.
If target is a healer, grants Aetheric Mimicry: Healer, increasing healing magic potency by 20% and augmenting certain blue magic spells.
Cannot be cast on self. Effect ends upon reuse.

— In-game description

Aetheric Mimicry is an action unlocked at level 1. It is available for Blue Mage.

Related actions

•   Cactguard
•   Devour
•   Chelonian Gate
•   Dragon Force
•   Schiltron
•   Matra Magic
•   Pom Cure
•   Gobskin
•   Exuviation
•   Stotram
•   Angel's Snack
•   Rehydration
•   Deep Clean

Flavor Text

A useful little ability originating with the ghrah, Aetheric Mimicry allows the mage to match his aetherial wavelength to that of another person, granting the same benefits as their hard-won combat training.

Acquisition

Duties

Creature	Level	Race	Clan	Location
Corruption	60	Elementals	Ghrah	Pharos Sirius (Hard)

Tips

Acquisition Tips

• Ghrah Luminary will summon a monster called "Corruption". Killing the corruption is enough to obtain Aetheric Mimicry.

Other Tips

• After acquiring this, it's strongly recommended to be mimicking at least DPS unless a fight calls for a different mimic.
• The impacted spells for Tank are:
  •   Cactguard (5% damage reduction becomes 15% damage reduction)
  •   Devour (duration from 15s to 70s)
  •   Chelonian Gate (Divine Cataract potency increased from 500 to 1,000)
  •   Dragon Force (20% damage reduction becomes 40% damage reduction).
• The impacted spell for DPS is:
  •   Matra Magic (potency per hit increased from 50 to 100).
• The impacted spells for Healer are:
  •   Pom Cure (cure potency from 100 to 500)
  •   Gobskin (shield potency from 100 to 250)
  •   Exuviation (cure potency from 50 to 300)
  •   Stotram (restores HP instead of dealing damage)
  •   Angel's Snack (adds 200 potency regen for 15s).
• Aetheric Mimicry: Tank increases physical defense by approximately 145% and magical defense by 40%.

History

• Patch 6.45 (2023-07-17): Aetheric Mimicry: Healer now increases the potency of all healing effects.
• Patch 5.15 (2019-12-09): Added.