Blue Mage wanting thread!

[Wyvern777]

I feel that Blue Mage could make a very good Tanking class in this game as it is fairly durable in most titles, has a wide variety of applications and can wield a variety of gear. The quest chain could involve studying a monster's move by battling it and acquiring it at the quest end, There is a good number of previous blue magic spells that would work for tanking as well, such as:

Mighty Guard - Defence Buff (Possibly for the whole party)
White Wind - Low Grade AOE Heal (Generates enmity)
Goblin Punch - Basic Skill (Generates enmity)
Aqua Breath - GCD AOE skill (Generates enmity and lowers enemy strength or defence)
Vampire - Single target skill (Drains HP, generates enmity)
Auto-Life - Mass wall skill, could work similar to Holmgang and Hallowed Ground but have a large cooldown period

There are countless others that could be implemented (1000 needles, Magic Hammer, Quake etc) to make it a viable tank class but those are just some examples on how I feel it could work.

[Rhaja]

You forgot the best one of them all; Detonate =D

I fully support BLU coming in as a tank. With it needing to (usually) take a hit to learn the attack, the only class that should do that is a tank. I do like the thought of White wind being an ability, but as a weaker heal to aoe generate threat, and help the party. Now if only SE would see this and make it happen ;___;

[Vallug]

I think in the last talk with Yoshi he said Blue Mage was probably not going to happen at all.

[Wyvern777]

I think in the last talk with Yoshi he said Blue Mage was probably not going to happen at all.

IIRC he mentioned wanting to do it but saying he wasn't quite sure about if it would be possible/Blue Mage like.