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[Zahak]

So this is good news for bluemage! Just make it unlockable with Gladiator for the sword and whatever other class and boom! Bluemage

[Rydin]

So this is good news for bluemage! Just make it unlockable with Gladiator for the sword and whatever other class and boom! Bluemage

Its funny that so many people want to see blue mage with a sword....

It's obviously because the only games Blue mage was EVER relevant (FFXI, Tactics advance) had him using a sword

way before that it was:

-after a wind crystal shattered
-using Stragos' "Lore" (He used rods, flails and daggers)
-using materia
-Quistis used a whip
-Quina Quen used a fork
-Kimahri was a lancer/blue mage
In fact Blue Mage with a sword is a fairly new concept

The reason I dont think Blue mage should be a sword user is simple
The armoury system is weapon based
As of right now... SO MANY possible jobs use swords
Of all the advanced Jobs I can name... at least 50% of them would seem best as sword users. But not every job can use a sword (balance), So SE would have to be creative with weapons for each Job.
Blue Mage is easy though... make it a job for another class.... People think it HAS TO have a sword but I think we've just seen that it doesn't.
OR
Add a whip class (Remember "Flayer" was in the .DATS?) and make Blue mage a job of it

[TheVedis]

Its funny that so many people want to see blue mage with a sword....

It's obviously because the only games Blue mage was EVER relevant (FFXI, Tactics advance) had him using a sword

way before that it was:

-after a wind crystal shattered
-using Stragos' "Lore" (He used rods, flails and daggers)
-using materia
-Quistis used a whip
-Quina Quen used a fork
-Kimahri was a lancer/blue mage
In fact Blue Mage with a sword is a fairly new concept

The reason I dont think Blue mage should be a sword user is simple
The armoury system is weapon based
As of right now... SO MANY possible jobs use swords
Of all the advanced Jobs I can name... at least 50% of them would seem best as sword users. But not every job can use a sword (balance), So SE would have to be creative with weapons for each Job.
Blue Mage is easy though... make it a job for another class.... People think it HAS TO have a sword but I think we've just seen that it doesn't.
OR
Add a whip class (Remember "Flayer" was in the .DATS?) and make Blue mage a job of it

Blue Mage was relevent when Gau was one too!

so not just in 11 and tactics, and with Gau he dont need no stinkin weapon

[Rydin]

Blue Mage was relevent when Gau was one too!

so not just in 11 and tactics, and with Gau he dont need no stinkin weapon

Gau wasn't a blue mage....
He was a beast master... beast mimic maybe even
If you chose a MOB... he became that MOB... even down to their regular attacks
Gau definitely wasn't a blue mage

[Skies]

Its funny that so many people want to see blue mage with a sword....

It's obviously because the only games Blue mage was EVER relevant (FFXI, Tactics advance) had him using a sword

way before that it was:

-after a wind crystal shattered
-using Stragos' "Lore" (He used rods, flails and daggers)
-using materia
-Quistis used a whip
-Quina Quen used a fork
-Kimahri was a lancer/blue mage
In fact Blue Mage with a sword is a fairly new concept

The reason I dont think Blue mage should be a sword user is simple
The armoury system is weapon based
As of right now... SO MANY possible jobs use swords
Of all the advanced Jobs I can name... at least 50% of them would seem best as sword users. But not every job can use a sword (balance), So SE would have to be creative with weapons for each Job.
Blue Mage is easy though... make it a job for another class.... People think it HAS TO have a sword but I think we've just seen that it doesn't.
OR
Add a whip class (Remember "Flayer" was in the .DATS?) and make Blue mage a job of it

Actually, that one bolded instance of Blue Mage there does uses swords! And shields! AND heavy armor, though not all of them
But yes, afterwards in games that did not have switchable jobs they tended to have different weaponry. I'd say you can't count Materia since everybody used everything there but-

Regardless, Blue Mage with swords is as old as FFV, where I believe Blue Mage was first introduced? I can be wrong in there.

[Rydin]

Actually, that one bolded instance of Blue Mage there does uses swords! And shields! AND heavy armor, though not all of them
But yes, afterwards in games that did not have switchable jobs they tended to have different weaponry. I'd say you can't count Materia since everybody used everything there but-

Regardless, Blue Mage with swords is as old as FFV, where I believe Blue Mage was first introduced? I can be wrong in there.

you're right... It was started in 5
I didn't mean it couldn't use swords... the point I was making is that it is like 7 in that every weapon could be a Blue mage but thats not feasible in FFXIV. So I was only really pointing out games where Blue Mage was locked to one weapon (or at least favored one weapon)
with that being said....
What do you guys think about Blue Magic not being a class but being learned by anyone... maybe even with materia

[Zahak]

Actually, I just favor XI's arabian kilij sword type bluemages over whips. :P

[Rydin]

Actually, I just favor XI's arabian kilij sword type bluemages over whips. :P

Can you imagine how many mi'qote flayers you'd see?
With Raptorskin Harness (Black) calling themselves "Cat Woman"