Blue Mage: A Guide for How they Should Exist xD

[Rawrz]

If they do BLU in this game, you're gonna have each Job quest being simply a quest to learn your Blue Magic spells. 30, 35, 40, 45, 50, 52, 54, 56, 58, 60 would all be different Blue Magics that you would learn through a quest battle, fighting a monster that uses the particular skill you're about to acquire. Outside of that, they'd more than likely be picking up weaponskills and cooldowns through leveling up, as was said before. The base Job would be just another Job in the game. The Blue Magics would make it unique in that they'd have special unique effects. They could also take the approach of dishing out even /more/ skills via Job quests - some Jobs get two abilities at certain points (not exactly abilities, but SMN gets a Garuda quest and a Titan quest independent of the new skill they learn from a separate one).

So yeah. It's highly unlikely that a Blue Mage would be very Blue or very Mage pre-30, since that's when every Job gets their quintessential Job Skill that makes them the Job and not the Class - even AST, MCH, and DRK pick up Diurnal Sect/Draw, Hot Shot/Rapid Fire, and Grit/Darkside at 30. So, yeah.


Aside from that - you seem to have kinda missed how Jobs in this game function primarily off of GCD rotations, and that seems to be missing from this concept.

xD The rotation would be

Buff with Internal Release, Crave, King's Oath. Cast Aquabreath, follow with Thunderbreath to increase potency and duration,Twister, fill with Frog drop, using Magic Hammer and Frost in the OGCD, use Mustard breath when Aquabreath is about to fall off to gain potency from Thunderbreath, continue with Frog Drop. Mad Hunger sets in. Feast + Hunger's Drive to Gap close or Feast + Delicious Sever to deal a massive DoT that will be up until the next blue magic duration is over.

So a rotation is there, but its just a concept. (Either way this was a fun activity xD)