Best job in the game!

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Originally Posted by Sylar

I keep hoping for TP Drainkiss, since it's still in the DATs.

Also, they should give us something like Crystal Shield (Protect) or Bubble Curtain (Shell). Shinryu already has Mighty Guard and it's way too good to give to BLU without making it useless (a novelty legacy spell like 1000 Needles and Bad Breath). Or Scissor Guard (+100% defense instead of the +50% from Cocoon - probably with an obscenely high MP cost and/or recast, though). More buffs or debuffs would definitely be welcome since I doubt we'll get anything to top the DD spells we've got now. A real f'ing Paralyze spell would be great, especially one with a proc rate as good as EVERY MONSTER WITH A PARALYZE ABILITY EVER. And god I can't wait for more set points at 91.

On topic: if not the best job, definitely one of the more fun ones to play.

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Yeah a nice Paralyze spell would be awesome, sub-zero smash sucks :/. I would hope if they added something like Mighty Guard, which is a iconic spell, they would go along the route of Battery Charge and change its use instead of gimping it like 1k needles and bad breath. Battery charge was initially a small mp recovery for pots and they changed it to refresh, they could change Mighty Guard from regain+heal to protect+shell :/?

The blue magic spell setting timer drives me crazy especially in Abyssea where is pretty much the only time I don't just set and forget lol. The yellow proc spells need some love I feel so gimped whenever I have to load most of them and I just gave up on 1000 misses...

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Originally Posted by kenshyn

The blue magic spell setting timer drives me crazy especially in Abyssea where is pretty much the only time I don't just set and forget lol. The yellow proc spells need some love I feel so gimped whenever I have to load most of them and I just gave up on 1000 misses...

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I agree the timer for resetting spells is annoying and should be reduced considerably or all together. I think just having the change them out is punishment enough no need for the /wait.

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Originally Posted by Draylo

they could change Mighty Guard from regain+heal to protect+shell :/?

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Yeah, but I think another problem would be that only one mob in the entire game uses it, and he's in a BCNM that requires you to defeat 15 Abyssea NMs. Then again, they made BLUs struggle through CoP to get spells there, so it wouldn't be the first time. Still don't see it happening, though.

Regarding the spell timer, it's a necessary evil. Given the huge pool of spells BLU has, it'd be kind of cheap if we could swap them around with only 30 seconds or so on the cooldown. Especially in Abyssea where MP is barely an issue. I would love it, though, if they made it so you could save certain spell sets, or at least macro them or something. The time you'd save digging through menus would make the 60-second cooldown bearable.

I also hate having to reset all my spells if I decide to go DRG/BLU or RDM/BLU for something. But at least now you don't have to reset them every time you change jobs!

As for Reraise for BLU, I actually thought that the Archaic Gear(s) "Restore" would work well.
Instead of just a self-heal, alter it to grant Reraise similar to how Battery Charge became refresh, it would make sense considering that gears using it resurrect one of the 3 that "died".

Blue Mage: it's what Red Mage was originally supposed to be!

The spell slot changing no-casting timer is annoying, but it's critical for balance because without it we could just swap spells mid-battle all the time, which would defeat the entire purpose of slotting spells at all. And I think it's safe to say that if a Blue Mage could have every spell they know slotted simultaneously, Blue Mage would be more overpowered than Ranger before the Ranged Attack Update. (And that's bad.)

As for spells it would be nice to have... well, I just have to wonder if Shinryu would be susceptible to Level 5 Petrify....

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Originally Posted by Sylar

Regarding the spell timer, it's a necessary evil. Given the huge pool of spells BLU has, it'd be kind of cheap if we could swap them around with only 30 seconds or so on the cooldown. Especially in Abyssea where MP is barely an issue. I would love it, though, if they made it so you could save certain spell sets, or at least macro them or something. The time you'd save digging through menus would make the 60-second cooldown bearable.!

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I was just thinking that the other day, wouldn't it be great if we could macro our proc set for abyssea, and then switch to a solo/party set. It get annoying having to siphon through 100+ spells to find the one you want. Sets with spells so we don't have to memorize each combo to build the traits we want.

I would also like to see a protect/shell spell.

yikes blu sucks, only fun about it is getting the spells. thought this was a post for wars, thfs or rngs.

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Originally Posted by SP1CE

yikes blu sucks, only fun about it is getting the spells. thought this was a post for wars, thfs or rngs.

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Get out !!

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Originally Posted by Draylo

Get out !!

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haha. nuuu.