If 2nd job Blue Mage what weapon/role

[Brightshadow]

As the title says if indeed Blue Mage is our second job due to yoshi-p Spider-Man shirt. What role/weapon do you suppose it might be?

My theories:
Role - Tank (Because they get hit by monsters/and the tank icon is blue)
Weapon - Some type of blunt weapon (warclubs) and on the side hand glyphs.

[Rinuko]

yay another BLU thread..

BLU has to be a DPS imo, dualwield swords like the typical BLU in XI.

[Radacci]

I'd go with DPS too, and saber.
tanks aren't very strong, so learning gimped attacks would be kind of anti-climactic.
also you can't get hit by healing/tanking skills...so you couldn't learn them...problematic
so you'd have to learn blue magic through job quests or observation which doesn't require you to tank.
also i can't think of any interesting healing/tank skills available in-game, atm, aside from maybe some raid mechanics, but i doubt you'll be able to learn those, because the game caters to casual players, and they would flip if they had to do raid content to learn skills.

[Arutan]

Another useless BLU thread so I'll just quote myself once again

Blue mage won't be added stop thinking it. On the remembering 2015 Yoshida only talked about Red Mage and Samurai.
That was an error from the english team. This dialogue was wrong and invented by the english team. The japanese one didn't have it, neither the Deutsch and French who directly translated from japanese. It is already known that the english translators are having some liberties on their translation, and they probably joke on the blue because they didn't took Yoshida's dialogue seriously when reading it.

[Eloah]

If you think about what Yoshi-P said in a recent Fumitsu interview, they are going back to FF iconic jobs. Blue Mage is slightly, slightly, more iconic than Samurai, and by that I mean it has more incarnations in the series over Samurai. Personally I'd prefer Blue Mage over Samurai, if we only get 2 jobs; if we get 3 I'm for either.

[Laerune]

Duel wield sword or a wand and shield like the last few BLU have wielded.

[ErikMynhier]

Im guessing tank with a great katana. I don't know why but I get thw feeling Sam will be like Bard, two classes merged to fit the mold of XIV.

SAM + BLU = FFXIV Samurai

[FallenWings]

I'd go with DPS too, and saber.
tanks aren't very strong, so learning gimped attacks would be kind of anti-climactic.
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500 Potency skill with 75% total damage buff isn't very strong?

I don't know much about Blue Mage but if they apparently need to get hit by skills to learn them then... Wouldn't tank be the most natural role for this?

[Velhart]

I would say either a rod or saber since those seem to be the most traditional BLU weapons looking at their history between the main series and Tactics series.

Thing I wonder is we do have saber looking weapons on GLA/PLD already and RDM is coming in with a fencing rapier. If BLU came with some kind of sword, it would need to be very unique or some strange twist that separates itself from PLD and RDM.

Pretty much the same with the rod. Since both WHM and BLM use rods/staves also.

Maybe they can do a completely new weapon and make their own interpretation of BLU.

All of these work out for me, as long as they are done well.

[zandervont]

Saber I believe is the most iconic but i would enjoy it being a Club/Mace as there's already 3 types of sword-jobs (RDM included).
All i want is to learn Tableflip and go flippin the birds on Titan!