Suggestion - A way to do a blue mage like class with current armoury system

[Volsung]

Hi all, first before I start I'll go ahead and say I KNOW they're redoing classes and adding a job system. That's fine, I hope that it becomes something enjoyable for everyone! This is not detailed at all, but simply another way at thinking about this implementation.

Anyhow we know that picking up a weapon changes you to a class of "that kind of weapon user", you get abilities for a variety of purposes and play to your liking by choosing the abilities that fit your not only your playstyle, but for optimization.

Well there could be a weapon, lets just say whip for convenience and when you equip it you become a flayer class. Guess what? It has no abilities of its own at start! go out, fight monsters waiting for them to use abilities that can be learned based on your rank~ sounds familiar right?

varied useful abilities (Buff, DoT, heal, DD, debuff)
multiple abilities on some ranks
useful traits when combinations of flayer abilities are used
etc

The details and balance issues can of course always be handled by SE, I just love going out and learning a variety of things from monsters =)

[Cairdeas]

I liked the Idea of using something like

Class Weapon: Slingshot
Class Name : Mimic

Abilities Learned : Mix of Blue Magic, Geomancy, Mimicing Abilities, and Special Ranged Attacks, mostly elemental ranged attacks.
Jobs It can unlock: Blue Mage, Geomancer, Trickster etc.

[Sephr]

Why a slingshot...?

[Yellow]

Mimic should have cloth gloves.

But yeah!! I love the idea of a 'Mimic' class and then having Blue Mage/Geomancer stemming from it

I think Blue Mage would need to come with a 'Learn' ability and high(er) physical attack so you can damage monsters.

[Vackashken]

Mimic should change you into the mob for a period of time :P

[Cairdeas]

Why a slingshot...?

For lore... they are made by combining Bowstrings with Conjurer and Thaumaturge wands/septers.

For design. They would use targeted Line of sight as their AOE modifier. Target the Spriggan behind the spriggan and it hits both no matter how far they are from each other as long as they are directly in a row.

And because they would act as a Trickster infuriating monsters with their own abilities.

Vack,They could be used to do that as well. That could even be a part of the mechanic that lets them learn their Blue Magic.

Mimic the Monster to Turn Into them. Their ability list replaces your action bar except your first skill which returns you to normal. Then you have to use their blue magic skill and get a critical hit to unlock it for your own use.