What Weapon Should A Blue Mage Use?

[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.