Death Magic

(first before i explain yes Its Chloe Saunders I dont believe in lieing or hiding who i am, I can only reply/post for a few hours a day when cg supervising me but... of course you could have guessed who I am after all I am the only daughter of death.


Honestly the only magic type we really missing is TRUE death magic, death magic is nor good or nor bad is just neutral.

So I think w/e we get next should use blood abilities or bones perhaps with a small weapon where we cut yourself, or cause bones to erupted from our body's to attack just something using more "neutral" magic nor good nor bad or elemental in nature something that relies on Death and decay. As a way to use magic we sacrifice our own life instead of mana.

Death magic is a touchy thing, it's the sorta thing that doesn't have to be evil, and yet 90% of the depictions of it in media are absolutely horrendously evil, like not even consuming and aggressive like normal Darkness is at worst, I mean like "It's a damn good thing the Geneva convention isn't real in Fantasy worlds...", because, to be blunt, all the obvious ways of using death magic are pretty damn evil, and while it doesn't have to be evil, because all the most obvious ways to use it are so evil, it means you have a lot of limitations in how to use it, what kind of animations you could even use, and so on so forth.

That said, I feel we could use more edgy jobs in general, we are at what, 2, maybe 3 properly edgy Jobs if you count Black Mage? out of 22, so sure, why the hell not.

just play blue mage

Death Magic? Well, it's more of a 'eventually you die' magic...we're working on instant exsangination, sir. In the meantime we must content ourselves with le petit morte. Ah, what makes it different from other magic is the spooky aesthetic, sir. Real macabre. Also a caster has to utilize their own lifeforce.
- Rather than simply use the trusted techniques to draw enough aether for whatever spell they cast?
Yes. Early development has meant the death magician spends most of their time trying to restore themselves or reduce the bloodletting rather than focus on utter annihilation of the enemy, but we shall get there eventually, sir.
- You're fired, Parker.

Goofy skits aside the whole 'casting from HP' schtick has seldom operated smoothly in games unless strictly limited or everyone is cutting themselves to achieve arcane power. Even in systems far more complex than XIV allowing for wider range of playstyle the blood only (on the Gilesbie diet) mage has run up against the unfortunate extremes where it becomes the blood fountain of youth or an anemic the entire party has to work harder to compensate for when they have fainted from blood loss after 'busting' into tears (more often the former).

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Originally Posted by Cygnia

Death Magic? Well, it's more of a 'eventually you die' magic...we're working on instant exsangination, sir. In the meantime we must content ourselves with le petit morte. Ah, what makes it different from other magic is the spooky aesthetic, sir. Real macabre. Also a caster has to utilize their own lifeforce.
- Rather than simply use the trusted techniques to draw enough aether for whatever spell they cast?
Yes. Early development has meant the death magician spends most of their time trying to restore themselves or reduce the bloodletting rather than focus on utter annihilation of the enemy, but we shall get there eventually, sir.
- You're fired, Parker.

Goofy skits aside the whole 'casting from HP' schtick has seldom operated smoothly in games unless strictly limited or everyone is cutting themselves to achieve arcane power. Even in systems far more complex than XIV allowing for wider range of playstyle the blood only (on the Gilesbie diet) mage has run up against the unfortunate extremes where it becomes the blood fountain of youth or an anemic the entire party has to work harder to compensate for when they have fainted from blood loss after 'busting' into tears (more often the former).

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I mean Curses, Life draining (can drain life and grant to party VIA classic ff spell of drain. There is resurrection VIA skeletons, ghost.

And my favorite reanimation of corpses. In short daddy death type of ability's are really great, yes we have reaper but that's more void than death sadly, don't get me wrong void is nice and all but.. Technically Death magic is both mentioned in dark knight story (reanimated freya body technically with part of yourself) and white mage story.. yet We have no job that truly relies on death. We really should have a Death kin, anyways if anyone responds to this I won't be able to reply to later tonight now Im off to color a graveyard and play with spectra/frankie

Oh. Necromancer. What you want is to play as a Necromancer. It's actually being added as a sub-job in the Occult Crescent for the North Horn update.

The good old days in WoW, when Warlocks accidentally killed themselves while converting their life to mana. Or in case of a wipe we used it on purpose, since it counted as a PvP death with no repair costs...

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Originally Posted by RedLolly

Oh. Necromancer. What you want is to play as a Necromancer. It's actually being added as a sub-job in the Occult Crescent for the North Horn update.

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That's cool they're adding them as phantom jobs. There's are Warrior of Light Necromancers on other shards, but I suspect the closest they'll actually get to it on the Source is Dark Knight (and we're only allowed to 'raise the dead' as memories pulled from others and ourselves in cutscenes and for that one fight in the Stormblood job quest...welllll and technically a bit of self-necromancy by setting ourselves on fire briefly...).

The original version of Thaumaturge was sort of like this in 1.0. It used status ailments, shadow magic, HP sacrifice, lifesteal, resurrection, etc. It was later changed to an elemental caster so that it could be the base class for Black Mage when they introduced it.

Here's what it used to be:
https://finalfantasy.fandom.com/wiki...IV_version_1.0)

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