Blue Mage - Job Trait Development

[Kwate]

Triple Attack & widescan would be nice, but personally I would like more cost savings for existing traits ie, counter, fast cast, store tp, DA , etc.

[Raxiaz]

Wide scan would be lovely, as would our own version of occult acumen... but I think SE decided against giving us that because it would be too over-powered. Even at 1-2 TP per spell, it's still pretty ridiculous considering most of our spells are so quick to cast.

I would also love reduced costs for existing job trait combinations. Most notably, Fast Cast and Conserve MP (or at least give us spells that are actually relevant to us for these traits). Would love to see Counter get some new spells to combine with it. Enervation is one of the most useless spells BLUs have.

[Habiki]

Wide scan would be lovely, as would our own version of occult acumen... but I think SE decided against giving us that because it would be too over-powered. Even at 1-2 TP per spell, it's still pretty ridiculous considering most of our spells are so quick to cast.

I would also love reduced costs for existing job trait combinations. Most notably, Fast Cast and Conserve MP (or at least give us spells that are actually relevant to us for these traits). Would love to see Counter get some new spells to combine with it. Enervation is one of the most useless spells BLUs have.

Enervation can be great to set if your AoE killing.

[Covenant]

I'd like to see expanding the tier's if blue job traits. SE already has this method established with "Clear Mind" so why can they simply expand all the others. I think Paladin and Redmage sub job are the only jobs to offer a second tier of job trait for bluemages?

As an aside what's with auto refresh costing so many spells to get job trait? Almost every other ability only requires two spells to get job trait. I understand that at lower lvls want to limit a blu's ability to swap out traits, but as we approach lvl 99 this reasonng is really lame. I'd like to see and increase of +2 tic for every 4 spells of blu

[Neisan_Quetz]

We all know BLU is getting Snapshot to go with Rapid Shot.

[Kwate]

We all know BLU is getting Snapshot to go with Rapid Shot.

Funny thing is.....you might be right

[Covenant]

Does rapid shot speed casting of ranged blue attacks such as quests rooms?

[Defiledsickness]

everything i've read, rapid shot has no effect on any blu spells. even ones that use/used the ranged atk dmg formula. i really dont know much about range spells tho because all those spells suck lol.

[Ravenmore]

I'd like to see expanding the tier's if blue job traits. SE already has this method established with "Clear Mind" so why can they simply expand all the others. I think Paladin and Redmage sub job are the only jobs to offer a second tier of job trait for bluemages?

As an aside what's with auto refresh costing so many spells to get job trait? Almost every other ability only requires two spells to get job trait. I understand that at lower lvls want to limit a blu's ability to swap out traits, but as we approach lvl 99 this reasonng is really lame. I'd like to see and increase of +2 tic for every 4 spells of blu

At 75 + it only takes 2 spells to get auto refresh. I use winds of promy and AB, to get auto refresh. Also so no other job with auto refresh gets higher then Tier 1, they would have to get tier 2 before or at the same time.

[Kasandaro]

occult acumen works with dark magic only, so only works for drk when you cast drain/aspir

Works on Elemental too - personal anecdata from SCH staff trials. I agree that it should at least work on magical BLU spells - anything that's elementally-typed.

As an aside what's with auto refresh costing so many spells to get job trait? Almost every other ability only requires two spells to get job trait. I understand that at lower lvls want to limit a blu's ability to swap out traits, but as we approach lvl 99 this reasonng is really lame. I'd like to see and increase of +2 tic for every 4 spells of blu

As Raven said, Actinic Burst + Winds of Promyvion. The fact that the spells are so useful in their own right is just icing.

At 75 + it only takes 2 spells to get auto refresh. I use winds of promy and AB, to get auto refresh. Also so no other job with auto refresh gets higher then Tier 1, they would have to get tier 2 before or at the same time.

SMN gets the second tier at 90. So, maybe by 99? (Though, with Battery Charge, and some combination of Ballad III, Refresh II, or Evoker's, how much Refresh do we need?)