Blue Mage Confirmed?

[MilesSaintboroguh]

No. That's from the next hildibrand episode/teaser and the "blue" mage is Gigi, a black mage mammet brought to life.

[Ceasaria]

No. That's from the next hildibrand episode/teaser and the "blue" mage is Gigi, a black mage mammet brought to life.

And has the power to use temporal magic...like Alexander...

[MilesSaintboroguh]

I also want to see this "lore"

[Jonnycbad]

The 'learning' aspect would be automatic during your Job Quests, which takes a lot of the 'fun' out of learning spells. There aren't many spells a BLU could learn in FFXIV that would look that cool. I mean think about generic mobs and the abilities they use? How many do you recall? Combat is so fast I doubt you guys remember any regular mob moves lol. In FFXI battle was slower and many moves that BLU learned were notorious because the mob version was associated with killing players all the time (Bomb Toss, Jet Stream, Death Sickle, Mandibular Bite.

[Keramory]

The 'learning' aspect would be automatic during your Job Quests, which takes a lot of the 'fun' out of learning spells. There aren't many spells a BLU could learn in FFXIV that would look that cool. I mean think about generic mobs and the abilities they use? How many do you recall? Combat is so fast I doubt you guys remember any regular mob moves lol. In FFXI battle was slower and many moves that BLU learned were notorious because the mob version was associated with killing players all the time (Bomb Toss, Jet Stream, Death Sickle, Mandibular Bite.

This. I cant like this enough.
What are you going to do even if they put it in? Rapid spam monster moves in rotation that just look like flashing red/yellow floor lights? Meh.

[Shurrikhan]

The 'learning' aspect would be automatic during your Job Quests, which takes a lot of the 'fun' out of learning spells. There aren't many spells a BLU could learn in FFXIV that would look that cool. I mean think about generic mobs and the abilities they use? How many do you recall? Combat is so fast I doubt you guys remember any regular mob moves lol. In FFXI battle was slower and many moves that BLU learned were notorious because the mob version was associated with killing players all the time (Bomb Toss, Jet Stream, Death Sickle, Mandibular Bite.

Using the game thus far as precedent, yes, the spells would have to be quest-based.

ANY movement from the norm would allow otherwise. You could just as easily (system-wise, although balancing would be harder) provide some 40 different learnable Monster spells, each with a certain minimum level to be learned (e.g. mob level minus offset, or the minimum recommended level for the zone or instance the mob is present in, perhaps higher for the stronger, "boss" or "elite" mobs therein), while gaining more slots of said spells as your level increases. Quests could mention or recommend key mobs to you, perhaps even require that you acquire a few core spells from certain such mobs, but they could just as easily simply require that you have acquired a minimum number or total spells, or of a minimum total level count.

[Lulu89]

The 'learning' aspect would be automatic during your Job Quests, which takes a lot of the 'fun' out of learning spells. There aren't many spells a BLU could learn in FFXIV that would look that cool. I mean think about generic mobs and the abilities they use? How many do you recall? Combat is so fast I doubt you guys remember any regular mob moves lol. In FFXI battle was slower and many moves that BLU learned were notorious because the mob version was associated with killing players all the time (Bomb Toss, Jet Stream, Death Sickle, Mandibular Bite.

This! Thank you for knowing your lore! ^^

any one that knows how this game works knows there no why to fit BLU in the game. BLU will be like WHM same 2-3 spells over and over again....and Useing a quest to learn spells is NOT A BLUE MAGE! Learn your lore! It won't FIT!

[Sparktacus]

This! Thank you for knowing your lore! ^^

any one that knows how this game works knows there no why to fit BLU in the game. BLU will be like WHM same 2-3 spells over and over again....and Useing a quest to learn spells is NOT A BLUE MAGE! Learn your lore! It won't FIT!

That is not lore at all. Lore would be something along the lines of the laws of Eorzea prohibiting learning magic from beasts for whatever reason. Look how they butchered SMN and made it fit into this game. They can easily do this with BLU. And while you might not agree with how it attains its blue mage spells, it will just be another thing completely upended and very little like the actual stereotypical Blue Mage.

[Toranja]

This! Thank you for knowing your lore! ^^

You are a bit special, aren't you?

There are no Lore reasons that impede the implementation of a Blue Mage.

[Zohar_Lahar]

The 'learning' aspect would be automatic during your Job Quests, which takes a lot of the 'fun' out of learning spells. There aren't many spells a BLU could learn in FFXIV that would look that cool. I mean think about generic mobs and the abilities they use? How many do you recall? Combat is so fast I doubt you guys remember any regular mob moves lol. In FFXI battle was slower and many moves that BLU learned were notorious because the mob version was associated with killing players all the time (Bomb Toss, Jet Stream, Death Sickle, Mandibular Bite.

There's still ample monster abilities for them to assemble a workable spell list, such as Banish, Golden Tongue, Flying Sardine, Dark Mist, Swinge, Electric Cachexia, Unholy, Liquid Hell, Tornado, etc.