Quote Originally Posted by Metaking View Post
i cant complete agree with blus aoes(post abysea mostly tho) being bad, thermal pulse, water bomb(actually this one is seriously mean with magic dmg lowish cost as well to bad its recast is so bad), acrid stream( cone so might not count >.>) heck even lowely blood weapon was good 25 mana full hp mid cleave. Dont hate on Embalming, pretty potent slow on it, nice if you need to cast dream flower mid cleave. Now on the blu vrs rdm on cleaveing blu does higher dmg in an amount of time, but rdm can get an outrageous amount more mobs that blu could ever dream of, and do it safely, not to mention on rdm its easier to taller your nuke dmg to say 550-600 range for points.
My perspective toward Blue Mage is probably tainted due to my Abyssea days when I used to enviously watch them literally pull the entire area and zap them all dead with a single spell. And these weren't wimpy monsters either. I'm talking very/incredibly tough ones.

I should probably take into account that without atma and given the fact they buffed low-tier nukes (which I was unaware of) maybe the difference between a Blue Mage and a Red Mage isn't as great as it once was in terms of AoE damage. But it's really hard for me to imagine the Blue Mages I am used to seeing from the old days reduced the power of a Red Mage/Black Mage sporting a low tier aga spell. But maybe that's how it is now. I don't play BLU nor do I often play with BLU. So if you say that's the way it is, I'll believe it.