Learning Blue Magic

[Kwate]

I started playing Blue one the first day it was released and you couldn't actually learn spells from enemys that did not yield exp, it wasn't just a myth it was changed with an update to blue mage.

At that point in time you couldn't really skip a spell like bludgeon unless you wanted to wait till later when you could kill the higher lvl cardians, this was the case for many spells, and the reason most blues soloed the majority of their lvls to learn their spells early and not have to wait till their usefulness was nonexistent, along with only getting invites to party on lesser colibris due to mp drainkiss making it so we didn't have to rest, and beyond those I don't remember getting any invites it was a real struggle to even lvl the job. And the only way to merit it was to do it on another job like Sam, Rdm, Brd, or War besides soloing imps in caedavra mire. Campaign didn't exist, no lvl sync, no fields/grounds of valor, no abyssea Blues now got it made. Not to mention all the ways to get refresh now, most Blues couldn't even set Auto-Refresh till after CoP was made into a joke and the mirage jubbah was rare to get in dynamis and wasn't added till much later making the vermy a staple piece.

If abyssea was out then and people leached their job to 75 like most do now, there would have been no way to get certain spells.

You can read about it in the April 18th 2006 update notes from when Blue Mage was released if you don't believe it.

I've always had better luck learning spells once I aquired the Magus Bazubands +1 went 1/1 on every spell except dream flower which I went 1/2 on since the lvl cap increases, could be that I've just been lucky. Generally when trying to learn spells I've always waited for the mob to use the spell I'm after then zerged it out within 3 seconds of its use.

I remember going after bad breath and it being horrible to get and then once i got it was really dissapointed barely had enough mp to cast it and do anything afterwards. Wasn't worth the 6 hrs in yhoatar jungle it took to get killing both marlboros everytime they were up.

I agree with scuro on everything being way easier for Blues now and theres no reason to really complain, If you didn't want to put in the effort to learn the spells then maybe your on the wrong job.

I agree, getting a party for BLU was horrible, almost damn near impossible. Merit party, you can forget that altogether. Sea spells was a major accomplishment in itself and you had to actually know how to play your job. BLU has alot to bring to the table if you take the time and effort.

[Lukielucas]

I agree, getting a party for BLU was horrible, almost damn near impossible. Merit party, you can forget that altogether. Sea spells was a major accomplishment in itself and you had to actually know how to play your job. BLU has alot to bring to the table if you take the time and effort.

Oh I totally agree, Pre-abyssea my 3 main jobs were DRG, BLU and WHM and BLU was one of the hardest job to get a party but I actually preferred soloing when i was on BLU, yeah it took a lot longer cos we didn't have what we have now... with double exp and abyssea...

I tell you what really p*sses me off about BLU's now a day is that they are skipping the AF1 because they think it's useless and go straight to AF3... The magus juddah is still a fantastic piece to own and totally worth it just for the +15 Blue magic skill alone!! then whinge about how hard it is to learn a spell... I had to kill 217 leeches just to learn MP Drainkiss and out of those 217 leeches 57 of them did the spell so i'm 1/57 on that spell... while i lost my rag and almost hated the job... i now really appericate this job cos it's the one job you REALLY have to work for!