dev1024 - healing magic

[Seriha]

I just figure no party heal beyond Healing Breeze until Magic Fruit at its implementation helped BLU get its foot in the door for a front-line presence. Tying physical spell accuracy to main-hand also curbed the job away from staff swapping for everything. Even until Wild Carrot and other later goodies, Head Butt spam was arguably revolutionary as the game's quickest source of frequent stuns, and thus damage mitigation if used well. The job might not have brought the highest damage numbers, especially on HNMs without CASA Cannonball and proper support, but for most other things you could definitely find something to do for a BLU almost regardless of sub.

[SpankWustler]

I just figure no party heal beyond Healing Breeze until Magic Fruit at its implementation helped BLU get its foot in the door for a front-line presence. Tying physical spell accuracy to main-hand also curbed the job away from staff swapping for everything. Even until Wild Carrot and other later goodies, Head Butt spam was arguably revolutionary as the game's quickest source of frequent stuns, and thus damage mitigation if used well. The job might not have brought the highest damage numbers, especially on HNMs without CASA Cannonball and proper support, but for most other things you could definitely find something to do for a BLU almost regardless of sub.

I guess this is all Greek to me because you feel "front-line presence" is something extremely desirable while I'm not that attached to it. If the job had been made differently such that physical spells had normal magic range, very good innate attack and accuracy values, and were enhanced by elemental staffs, that would have been cool with me. Oddly enough, I'm pretty sure the job would actually perform better against high defense/high level monsters if this were the case. I'd definitely have leveled the job either way.

In fact, right now, I'd probably be telling some bro or bro-ette on the Blue Mage forums that Blue Mage is perfectly functional as a mage, doesn't need to hit things with things, and that I leveled it with no intention of hitting a thing with a thing. Feels weird man. I don't think "ironic" is a proper descriptor, but I'm sure somebody invented a word for this situation at some point.