Geomancer vs Blue Mage

[Docent]

Also I'm not sure if you're saying FFXI made BLU a support or the opposite[...]

What I meant is that in FFXI, BLU are known mostly for the [Physical] Damage Spells (and ability to self-skillchain). (Yes I know, whiskers burns were awesome...)

Like you said, in older FF titles, I mostly respected the job for its abilities like White Wind / Big Guard and non-standard elemental attacks, or AoE ability -- Trine was rather strong in FFVII.

One thing that is almost certain is that their "funkier" spell selection like Level 5 Death or Roulette would not make it in an MMO setting, because it would be far too random, situational and/or potentially game-breaking.

Just a quick note - for those talking about GEO using earth attacks like Stone

If anything, GEO should be able to use all 6 elements, if they were true to the job's ability to manipulate any terrain.

[Yasuhiro]

Like you said, in older FF titles, I mostly respected the job for its abilities like White Wind / Big Guard and non-standard elemental attacks, or AoE ability -- Trine was rather strong in FFVII.

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Not to go too off topic but Final Fantasy VII had some really awesome Blue Magic abilities yes, learning Beta early from the snake and using it to nuke literally anything was amazing, because it was a mushroom cloud when casting it and the Pandora's Box spell I think it was called that you get late game, great ability.

FFXIV loves its fanservice, right? I'll take Blue Mage if it had some FFVII spells to learn along the way, very underrated abilities. Because most only remember Blue Magic from V or XI. (Mostly talking about game exclusive abilities not shared ones =p)