Blue mage is a waste of potential, change my mind.

[ReiMakoto]

That actually sounds like BLU to me. Have you never played the classic Final Fantasy games? That's literally how it's always been lol.

BLU:

FFV: Caster Support God in end game, in prog of the game learns powerful spells early (Aero) and generally learns a good range of damaging magic (As well as some niche skills)
FFVI: Learned some weird spells, and some other powerful skills,
FFVII: Enemy skill was great, powerful magic which wasn't necessarily better than regular magic, but wasn't worse either, it also didn't alter your stats like other materia
FFVIII: Not played it so can't judge its usefulness
FFIX: Quina was great, most of the stuff was percentage based but still
FFX: Kimari was Trash Moving on
FFXI: Not played it but heard it was good and strong in that one

Could go on for other BLU's but you get my point, they of course did get some useless skills, but so do black and white mages.

[KokonoeAiyoko]

BLU:

FFV: Caster Support God in end game, in prog of the game learns powerful spells early (Aero) and generally learns a good range of damaging magic (As well as some niche skills)
FFVI: Learned some weird spells, and some other powerful skills,
FFVII: Enemy skill was great, powerful magic which wasn't necessarily better than regular magic, but wasn't worse either, it also didn't alter your stats like other materia
FFVIII: Not played it so can't judge its usefulness
FFIX: Quina was great, most of the stuff was percentage based but still
FFX: Kimari was Trash Moving on
FFXI: Not played it but heard it was good and strong in that one

Could go on for other BLU's but you get my point, they of course did get some useless skills, but so do black and white mages.

Keep in mind when you refer to "end-game", we don't have end-game Blue right now. We're at 50, that's 51-60-70-80 worth of moves still remaining. Maybe SE should've just waited and released it all at once.

In classic Final Fantasies most jobs are "pick spell from a menu" or "press the Fight button". If you want that kind of gameplay there's a lot of games for you to play, but that's horrible gameplay for a MMO where you control a single character.

Worked fine in FFXI. It'll work fine in this game too when we have level 80 cap imo.

I personally prefer to judge a game based on the content it currently has, not on the content that's been promised.

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That's fine, the point I'm making is that we can't judge it for its endgame qualities until then.

[Zephera]

Keep in mind when you refer to "end-game", we don't have end-game Blue right now. We're at 50, that's 51-60-70-80 worth of moves still remaining. Maybe SE should've just waited and released it all at once.

I personally prefer to judge a game based on the content it currently has, not on the content that's been promised. If it's going to be a better down the line than what we have right now then I'd much rather have waited for it.