Blue Mage wanting thread!

I feel that Blue Mage could make a very good Tanking class in this game as it is fairly durable in most titles, has a wide variety of applications and can wield a variety of gear. The quest chain could involve studying a monster's move by battling it and acquiring it at the quest end, There is a good number of previous blue magic spells that would work for tanking as well, such as:

Mighty Guard - Defence Buff (Possibly for the whole party)
White Wind - Low Grade AOE Heal (Generates enmity)
Goblin Punch - Basic Skill (Generates enmity)
Aqua Breath - GCD AOE skill (Generates enmity and lowers enemy strength or defence)
Vampire - Single target skill (Drains HP, generates enmity)
Auto-Life - Mass wall skill, could work similar to Holmgang and Hallowed Ground but have a large cooldown period

There are countless others that could be implemented (1000 needles, Magic Hammer, Quake etc) to make it a viable tank class but those are just some examples on how I feel it could work.

You forgot the best one of them all; Detonate =D

I fully support BLU coming in as a tank. With it needing to (usually) take a hit to learn the attack, the only class that should do that is a tank. I do like the thought of White wind being an ability, but as a weaker heal to aoe generate threat, and help the party. Now if only SE would see this and make it happen ;___;

I think in the last talk with Yoshi he said Blue Mage was probably not going to happen at all.

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Originally Posted by Vallug

I think in the last talk with Yoshi he said Blue Mage was probably not going to happen at all.

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IIRC he mentioned wanting to do it but saying he wasn't quite sure about if it would be possible/Blue Mage like.