2nd Job Predictions

[KyahAlmasy]

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Blue Mages generally use sabers? Isn't FF11 and Tactics the only instances ever, where a Blue Mage is restricted to a saber? Throughout Final Fantasy Blue Mages use a variety of different weapons, and are played very differently. Strago Magus in FF6 used a magic rod, in FF8 Quistis Trepe used a whip, Quina Quen uses a fork in FF9, and Kimahri Ronso uses a Lance in FF10 -- So it's pretty clear that they have a lot of different directions they could go with it. And the same could be said for Monster Tamers and Beast Masters as well. :P

Considering how many liberties they've taken, and the strides made to eliminate the similarities between the jobs from the two MMOs, I don't think we should expect carbon copy jobs from 11.

While I agree that we haven't seen a lot of the iconic monsters that the Blue Mage's learn their abilities from, they have plenty of time to create a storyline and introduce the monsters when the new jobs/classes are eventually patched in. And part of the questline for Blue Mage could be running around having to collect those spells from monsters.

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Kimahri Ronso uses a Lance in FF10

He is both a Dragoon and a blue mage so that doesn't really count as a true blue mage, and you forgot the blue mage in FFX-2 with guns.