What Weapon Should A Blue Mage Use?

[MomomiMomi]

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Thanks for the clarification. To be honest, I was being a bit nitpicky. But I did find what I was hoping for, Matsuno clarifying that he did not intend for it to be related.


And I realize I haven't even answered the question of the OP. I actually really liked the FFXI version using scimitars, but I also found FFX-2 using Gun Mage as its version of Blue Mage quite interesting. And we honestly have too many sword using jobs, and more potential sword using jobs still!

So, as a compromise, if we're going to receive a gunblade wielding job, I would not mind at all if Blue Mage was it.

[Zohar_Lahar]

It's gonna be a gunblade. Literally the entire Empire storyline since 2.0 has been about stealing others' abilities through technology.

Ceruleum Mage

[RitsukoSonoda]

TBH Blue Mage could potentially use a lot of things as a weapon in this game. I think most commonly they were given more Arabic style garb with scimitars but they have changed that multiple times in the FF series to more unusual implements and also in the case of FFVI a more traditional mage in Strago.

[Noalan]

I doubt they'd do a 'start at level 1' class again, but an Artist -> Blue Mage Story would be really cool.

[Edax]

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[LeoLupinos]

Any, but gunblades. I want gunblades to be used to a redmageish job. I think soldier would fit better, similar to the shadowhunter skills.

[Astarotha]

i know im gonna get a ton of backlash for this, but honestly i kinda wish the 5.0 classes would start from 30 again, that way i still get a full story establishing the class before i get dumped into the high level story like ram and sam had (still salty though the absolutely excellent 30-50 drk storyline isnt rewatchable at the unending journey), but i do realise both putting the new classes in the hw areas was a fairly large hurdle people had to cross so putting sam and ram in uldah means you dont have to reach 4.x to start, and it meant you had to grind that class from 30 when you had been 50+ before (however the whole keeping all new classes within arr areas sidesteps that partially but not fully due to the whole 'also mustve completed prae first' bit)

hopefully they can somewhat lengthen the 5.0 50-60 stories to accomodate for more lore before going into the 60-80 stories

also im really hoping for whip since itd be a neat new moveset to see, 1h sword is in use, 2h hammer could always be part of war or drk glam, gunblade is prime for magitek knight being the 2nd maim user, daggers are already in use, rod was in use at one point, brush sounds cool but i dont think they could avoid it ending up looking too much like blam

[kikix12]

A big question in my mind, however, is how would the BLU use it? Would the BLU be a caster job, and only occasionally move in for melee (like RDM)? Or will it be closer in style to a melee job, staying up front full-time, and mixing in monster attacks with melee swings? And in the latter case, how would the "gun" part of the gunblade work into it?

The gunblade would work exactly like it did in all the other FF titles. Like a sword with a gun whose trigger is pushed on hit while in melee.

In this games mechanics, that would mean that the basic combo would be blade combo, the gun skills would be melee-range abilities and there would be one global cooldown ranged attack using the gun (every melee class have a 15 yalm attack as far as I can think, this would be gunblades). The blue magic would probably be a mix of cooldowns and gauge-abilities. Maybe a combo finisher.

i know im gonna get a ton of backlash for this, but honestly i kinda wish the 5.0 classes would start from 30 again

I kinda wish they would start from lvl1...I mean, currently the first several dozen levels go rather fast thanks to the bonus experience from having a high class. They can just increase that bonus severely if they think that starting at 1 would make it take too long to get into the action with the new classes.

Putting them at lvl1 however would not only give all that story to flesh out the classes, but make them available as starters for those that have the expansion. There is actually zero reason why it needs to be locked behind anything at all.

[Vahlnir]

Any, but gunblades. I want gunblades to be used to a redmageish job. I think soldier would fit better, similar to the shadowhunter skills.

My theory is this:

BLU: tank (would definitely be a first for this game)...as to what they use as a weapon, it wouldn't surprise me to see them use something along the lines of one handed swords, potentially dual wielded, and they would mitigate damage by channeling powers from various monsters/beasts. Maces might be a possibility too.

Gunblade: dps (I'm guessing it'll work like a reverse RDM)

Dancer: healer (kinda like they healed in FF XI)

Granted, regardless of what Gunblades end up being...as long as they aren't a healer, I am fine with the outcome. I've been waiting for so long.

[Rofel]

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