Add Blue Mages Already

[Jandor]

Blue mage will likely be a disciple of the hand job crafting enemy skill consumables.

It'll obviously be a disciple of the land class. Going out and gathering skills from enemies is proper traditional BLU.

[Kowen]

If heavy armor wouldn't be appropriate... what if they wore caster armor, but had a trait/tank stance that converted INT into VIT, or something like that?

[Seraphor]

If heavy armor wouldn't be appropriate... what if they wore caster armor, but had a trait/tank stance that converted INT into VIT, or something like that?

I'd rather they just invented a unique version of a Blue Mage (like every other Blue Mage in the series) that fit into Heavy Armour.

Something like a Magitek Knight, a mystic knight with blue magic, for example.

[Linx0r]

I don't know much about ff11 blue mage. I didn't even know they had one until this thread. The blue mage weapons I remember is khimari/Spear. Gau/claws. Realm/paintbrush.

Gau or Rhelm weren’t BLU in FF6....strago was and he used a staff

[Linx0r]

Gau isn't a blue mage, Relm isn't either. FFVI's blue mage is Strago.

Lol oops sorry for the duplicate

[Linx0r]

Daggers, long daggers, depending on the skin, NIN weapons range from dagger to barely a short sword. There's also the way they hold their weapons as well. Dual swords, done right, sounds pretty fun to me. We could also use another full physical tank like WAR.

I think if they actually implemented dual swords it would be nice as dps.

[Linx0r]

Blue mage will likely be a disciple of the hand job crafting enemy skill consumables.

I like this idea

[Seraphor]

I'd rather they just invented a unique version of a Blue Mage (like every other Blue Mage in the series) that fit into Heavy Armour.

Something like a Magitek Knight, a mystic knight with blue magic, for example.

Just occurred to me.
Garlean Magitek is powered by Ceruleum.

Blue Mage Magitek Knight confirmed. XD

[Tint]

If heavy armor wouldn't be appropriate... what if they wore caster armor, but had a trait/tank stance that converted INT into VIT, or something like that?

if they don't have the defense and m-defense the other tanks have on the gear, then they can't compete. when their defense is actually locked behind the stance and without stance they are as squishy as any DD, nobody will take this job into the dps-meta gameplay.

and a huuuge amount of life to compensate isn't the answer either. that's unbalanced in regards to healer output and needs a bandaid-fix from the start, like a passive healbuff.

and all in all... i don't see any reason why a mage can't wear heavy armor.

[Seraphor]

Some further speculation on Blue Mage:

Garlean Magitek is entirely powered by Ceruleum, a form of processed Aether, which also happens to be named after a shade of Blue.
I believe that the reason they’ve previously said that we won’t be getting a Blue Mage (although context is everything and it could’ve just been we won’t be getting it YET) is because Blue Magic is already in the game. In terms of Lore, it is the Garlean philosophy of claiming the power of the eikons for their own which serves as the basis. Basically Ultima Weapon.
Ultima Weapon not only absorbs the essences of the first three primals, but it uses their skills, along with some other previously used Blue Magic spells such as Homing Laser. Ultima Weapon IS our Blue Mage, and by extension Magitek IS Blue Magic.

In many ways it wouldn’t be very lore-friendly to give us a Blue Mage with this in mind (which I believe is the basis for SE’s ‘no Blue Mage’ comments) however that doesn’t rule it out entirely. ‘Lore’ has already seemingly been broken with some jobs, and the most similar example is Summoner.
Summoning Primals is BAD, the game tells you this every chance you get, so what does a Summoner do? It finds a way around this, a loophole. You’re not really summoning Primals, you’re shaping your own aether into a rudimentary form of a Primal.
Something similar could, and should happen with Blue Magic/Magitek, but it would need some groundwork to be laid out first. This groundwork I believe is Nero’s side-arc, and once we inevitably go to Garlemald/Ilsabard we might be ready for it.

Nero will have found a way to replicate Ultima Weapons technology on a smaller scale, that’s more elegant and effective the basic Garlean Magitek. Basically the coming together of the Allagan’s Ultima Weapon and Garleans Ceruleum Magitek will be the true advent of Blue Magic and one way or another this will become available to us, either via Nero himself joining us against Garlemald, or another character stealing the technology from him, as Nero cuts the act and becomes a true adversary, no longer needing us to aid in his research.