Geomancer vs Blue Mage

[Rhaja]

Just going to take a swing here. Geomancer has the least chance of entering this game because whatever it can do, they can add to WHM. GEO was kinda doomed when they made earth element attacks the main source of damage for CNJ/WHM. If SCH/SMN didn't end so badly we would have likely seen GEO come from CNJ, but right now it would be a tad redundant.

Bluemage is something that they will give the SMN treatment. It won't play anything like a previous BLU and will instead go into one of two archetypes. Either it will have a 30second oGCD ability where it can "learn" or "Counter" and attack from a targeted monster and use it right away, or store it for later in addition to a mix of monster and weapon skills. Or the one that will really piss the world off, it'll turn into a Morpher/Druid.

[LineageRazor]

GEO was kinda doomed when they made earth element attacks the main source of damage for CNJ/WHM.

Just a quick note - for those talking about GEO using earth attacks like Stone and claiming that would make them redundant to CNJ, remember that Final Fantasy GEOs in most games they appeared in were NOT limited to earth-element attacks. Their attacks were determined by the type of terrain they were in (or that they learned the skill from), so a GEO standing in a volcano dungeon would have fire attacks, one standing in a river would have water attacks, one in a forest would have wood attacks, and so on and so forth.

CNJ being able to cast Earth element spells has no impact on GEO whatsoever, because Earth element spells are only a small part of what GEO can do (and, generally, only when they're standing in terrain that's particularly "earthy", like a mudflat.

[AlphaFox]

Their attacks were determined by the type of terrain they were in (or that they learned the skill from), so a GEO standing in a volcano dungeon would have fire attacks, one standing in a river would have water attacks, one in a forest would have wood attacks, and so on and so forth.

This is the main reason I suggested about "Auras of __" that way they can still keep their terrain only skills, perhaps like with monks getting a little animation when turning it on or have it persist like Darkside. On Aura of Fire have flames surround your feet, water have bubbles and so on, seeing as we can't really restrict a class to 1 element otherwise in Alex you'd be stuck with "metal" all the time and I don't think Toph will be our teacher here. (Points to whoever gets that)