I was browsing through the Stormblood screenshots and artwork available on the teaser site, and I ran across an image that at first glance appears to be a mage gear preview. As I looked, though, I noticed an object that appeared to be some sort of bagpipe hanging from the left hip. Take a look for yourself: Stormblood media It's the 21st item, last one on the fourth row.

Am I misjudging this item? Could it be an Astrologian weapon, or is it something new, akin to a new class? It could possibly be a blue mage, but if that's the case then they are innovating with the weapon choice. That makes sense, of course, since most previous iterations of the class used swords similarly to red mage (for whom they've already re-imagined the weapon into a swordstaff). The move away from an aggressive weapon such as a sword could be because they want to reclassify blue mage into a healer, and if the third class released is a tank samurai then the trend (one from each role) would continue. Obviously there's a lot of speculation and conjecture here, but the pieces seem to fit... at least for now, anyway. The gear in the artwork is also blue, which admittedly is a weak correlation to blue mage but at the same time this class has normally been defined by the color of its garb, so it's not as huge of a stretch as it may first appear.

What do you guys think?