What Weapon Should A Blue Mage Use?

[dinnertime]

ff6 they used knives, rods, and bare hands. ff8 used chair whip. ff9 forks. ff10 spears. ffx-2 magic gun. ff11 scimitars. ff tactics saber. They have never just used swords.

Blue Mage was introduced first in 5 and they can use swords. Scimitars and sabers are techincally swords.

[Wiccan026]

Blue Mage was introduced first in 5 and they can use swords. Scimitars and sabers are techincally swords.

They also could use other weapons in FFV, not just swords. Your argument (or at least the way you phrased your post) implies that Blue Mage only ever just wielded swords (which was something someone tried to do earlier in this thread) and others are just stating that is not the case at all.

[Cidel]

Blue Mage was introduced first in 5 and they can use swords. Scimitars and sabers are techincally swords.

Summoners weren't introduced into the series (to my understanding) "wielding" grimoires either. Bards weren't commonly associated with wielding bows.

"Technically" DRKs, RDMs, SAMs and PLDs all wield swords but the type of sword and shape varies. I do concede though that scimitars and sabers can be too visually similar to PLD's main arm (a handful of their weapons already look like scimitars) so I would think the devs would opt out designing a new job with a weapon-type that's already represented. So unless it's an easily distinguishable new type of "sword," I don't see that as a weapon for a new anything.