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[Arkdra]

Can you imagine if it were just. A NPC saying, " Go battle this Monster for X ability" every 2 levels for your job class. Thats the only way BLM would work in current content. If predefined skills were set.

Well, realistically speaking blu has no theme so the sky's the limit. If I were doing blu as a regular job I'd make them a melee dps and give them clubs for no reason other to be somebody else making use of blunt resistance. Give them the usual melee combos that have essentially nothing to do with using monster skills and then have all the monster skills fill in for ogcd attacks, buffs, and a bar that fills to do the big ones like bad breath or delta. Easy peasy. Slant them supporty, give them trick attack, maybe mighty guard but meh, not much point mechanically. Done, another boring job. SE I expect my check to get here before christmas.

[Fredco191]

Well, realistically speaking blu has no theme so the sky's the limit. If I were doing blu as a regular job I'd make them a melee dps and give them clubs for no reason other to be somebody else making use of blunt resistance. Give them the usual melee combos that have essentially nothing to do with using monster skills and then have all the monster skills fill in for ogcd attacks, buffs, and a bar that fills to do the big ones like bad breath or delta. Easy peasy. Slant them supporty, give them trick attack, maybe mighty guard but meh, not much point mechanically. Done, another boring job. SE I expect my check to get here before christmas.

I think I’d actually play that.

[Elerus]

I think I’d actually play that.

I'll be honest, what I hoped for from Blue Mage before there were any leaks or even rumors was one of two things:

1) A magic "tank" but it would appear we're getting a gunblade tank so that was never likely (doubt SE would do two tanks in one expansion)

2) A sort of inverse Red Mage DPS class where you have a basic set of "weak" melee abilities (magic hammer, goblin punch) that built up your class gauge called something like "Lore". However, instead of just flipping back and unleashing one big Blue Magic finisher you got a buff on your character that would let you spend your Lore to dole out a set of monster skill attacks. Think of it like how Paladin cycles between Fight or Flight melee combo and then Holy Spirit/Requiescat phases but with the added benefit of being able to choose from more than one skill in this phase depending on what you or your party needed. So you might spam damage, you might spend a large chunk on a healing spell, etc. This way not only could the numbers of the spells be tweaked but you could alter their lore cost for balance as well. I dunno, it was just an initial idea, and regardless it looks like we're getting nothing of the sort so a bit of a moot point.