Accessing More of the Spell List

[Purrs]

I know a lot of Blue Mages complain about the work involved in obtaining our huge spell list, and then not having access to it all at once like other mages. I realize, as do most others, that granting full access to the spell list would have ramifications on job traits gained through spell combos. The mechanics of the Blue Mage job seem to disallow any chance of gaining access to all our magic at once. I think there could be a simple solution, however.

If the main concern is having unlimited access to job traits, why not just change "spell" set points to "trait" set points. That way we could have full access to all those spells we worked so hard for without the mind-numbing annoyance of navigating a huge spell list to swap things out, but not become all crazy overpowered by unlimited job traits.

This would add a little more flexibility to situational spell choices and ease/simplify the spell selection interface.

[Laciante]

But half of the fun is swapping out spells (but not the warm up time)
besides, the best part of BLU is that we don't have to go through such a long list to find the spell we want from the available spell list, like RDM does.
All they need to do is give a few more slots/points...

[Kwate]

This thread is beating a dead horse, might want to check out the other threads in this forum that talks about this.

[macross]

There is no fun in swapping spells. Go and try some VoidWatch and see how fun it is.
Need to keep the system of setting spells to earn traits and stats and what not, but allow us to cast any spell we know without having to set it. Make them have less power or whatever if needed, just allow us them to cast them so we don't have to constantly set and unset new spells 50 million times per voidwatch nm.

[Scuro]

Honestly, the spells have more then the ability to traits, they have stats, to ask for them to do this update would probably mean the removal of stats associated with the spells. I think that is a bad idea, because if not we would have access to all of the stats associated with the spells and that would be broken. WHat I would get behind is the ability to make macro palettes for BLU spells so that we can swap on the fly with out having to bring up the menu every damn time or spending a lot of time fooling around with spells. This too me would be much better. Giving us full access to the spells makes the job unbalanced. While that would be fun, its not exactly fair.

[Inafking]

We're gonna get more set points at 91 and I'm sure Job Merits 3 will have something like assimilation. I have access to everything I need except when I'm trying to proc. That can be fixed by adding double or quad proc spells or accepting the fact that we're the most powerful job in the game and we gotta take a nerf every now and then to keep the other jobs from getting pissed off at us. I'm good with either.

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I would, however, like to see the 2hr give us access to our full spell list and all the atributes and traits that go with it.

[Prothscar]

or accepting the fact that we're the most powerful job in the game and we gotta take a nerf every now and then to keep the other jobs from getting pissed off at us.

by what possible measure?

[Defiledsickness]

I would, however, like to see the 2hr give us access to our full spell list and all the atributes and traits that go with it.

then we'd have the best 2hour in the game :P im just happy ours does something now. but this has been discussed a lot, we'll just have to wait until next month to see what happens.

[Kwate]

I think Proth's findings revealed we were getting some type of JA next update if I'm not mistaken. So that idea is not totally off the table.

[Prothscar]

They weren't my findings, but Spira's. At least, the video was on his youtube channel!