Does WHM need Bar- spells?Follow

Ok so i'm a lvl 40 WHM, and have done my best to keep my spells updated. I can only fish for so long o.O
I have made sure to get what i thought was important, like Haste, Cura, Shellra II. However I still find myself neglecting the Bar- elemental spells. I have the spells like Bar-sleepra and Bar-poisonra, but as for ones like Bar-Blizzard or Bar-fira, is it ok for a WHM to go without these till lvl 75? or is this an absolute No No?

Hasim - Upper Jueno sells all 6 of the elemental Barspells for all under 6k each. Not that expensive.

Depending on how you level, like if you decide to go the abyssea leech route, it's likely you will never use one until you hit level 75+ But yes they are important, and yes you will use them all the time later on if you want to be as effective as you can be. My enhancing magic is still about 100 under the cap, and Barspells are giving ~90 resistance to that element before gear improvements (AF2 pants, AF3+2 Body, etc), which is huge when things in abyssea are casting sh*t like Freeze II/Blizzaga V etc.

The bar-element spells are actually much more important than the bar-status spells. The bar-element spells also help status resistance too, for example Baraera will protect against Silence because Silence is a wind-based spell. The bar-status spells by themselves won't really help you at all, you need both the bar-status and the corresponding bar-element combined to start resisting those status ailments.

Perg is, as usual, absolutely correct. Even since level 75 it was very likely that a Paladin with an exceptional resist build backed up by the appropriate carol and Bar-element spell could resist even typically accurate spells like Break from Jailer of Faith, and TP moves like Carabosse's Cyclonic Torrent. Admittedly, I always keep the appropriate Bar-status spell on also, regardless of how much of a placebo they may be. Their extended durations mean that you only have to recast every other Bar-element spell anyway, so it's not that big of a deal.

The supplement that Empyrean armor offers to Bar-element spells makes them even more valuable, though it's difficult to quantify by how much, particularly on multi-element monsters like Pantokrator. The best defense here is to pick between Barthundra and Barblizzara and hope (I usually go with Barblizzara and Barparalyzra, since Paralysis is probably the most obnoxious ailment in the game.)