The Constelations and the BLM

[Alderon]

Rhyste posted a chart of the properties and effects of the Constelations on the crafting and HQing, but i just recently found out that they also affect BLM skilling up and spell dmg.
You see, every constelation has its elemental property:
Odin is dark, Alexander is light, shiva - ice, garuda - wind, and so on...
Turns out that if you face certain compass directions youll be influenced by them in one of the 2 situations below:

- You face the constelation whose element beats the one of the current day -> more skill ups.
-You face the constelation that matches the spell youre gonna cast -> more spell dmg.

Many ppl have tried this out and said it works(i have yet to try it myself, but it seems logical).
It also seems that if you face a constelation and cast a spell whose element is beaten by that one, you have a higher chance to get resisted by the mob; so think about wich way youre gonna face depending on the spells you cast more oftenly.


Heres the link to the chart Rhyste posted:

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But, since it can be a tad complicated if you dont look at it right, here are the directions:

DARK(Odin) -> N
LIGHT(Alexander) -> NE
ICE(Shiva) -> E
WIND(Garuda) -> SE
EARTH(Titan) -> S
LIGHTNING(Ramuh) -> SW
WATER(Leviathan) -> W
FIRE(Ifrit) -> NW
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Hope this helps everyone getting good synths and also
making spell skilling up easier

[Rhyste]

Cool, nice addition to the synth chart.

[Huck]

I don't know about spell damage...
Resistance rate seems more likely if anything at all.
I'll have to play around with that tonight.

[Vindalesin]

Well, the more damage done may just be less resistance overall, so in a way its true.