blue mage

[shadowkiller411]

I have been debating whether the blue mage should be a tank or dps. To me tank seems like the most logical choice. Most tanks have their own little nitch. The blue mage will use blue magic to damage and inflict debuffs on enemy, with "Bad Breath" being one of the most powerful skills. Perhaps learning a healing skill like white wind.
I can see the blue mage going out during their job quest and slaying beast to gain new abilities. Slaying coeurl to learn how to paralyze. Facing a Fenrir to learn frost breath to freeze weak enemies. Going into instances to kill weaker versions of Behemoth class fate bosses. Many people think that a Blue Mage should get a sword of some kind. I, on the other hand, think that we need a little variety. At first I thought of a whip, a call back to Quistis from ff8. But now I think a crescent blade would work best. I got this idea after seeing the Azure Witch in Mobious FF. I can even see the Azure Witch being a main part of the job quest.

[Maero]

Good luck because you are in for a long wait for blu to be implemented along with Dancer it would seem
I too would think if/when they do decide that tank would be the better role for it

[Jkap_Goat]

I would want blue mage and dancer, also beast Master

[ADVSS]

I too thought a more practical and lore way to make Blu into the game would also be to make it a unique sort of tank, however the weapon choice is far beyond me, maybe mace and shield or something possibly a bit outside the normal for the job that we know today.

[Neela]

I would want blue mage and dancer, also beast Master

Mime could be funny as well... I felt in love with Mimes in FFT <3



one of the main skills could be "copycat" which gives you a stance which saves the next party-members skill to your toolkit without any restrictions for one free usage. Like Flare without Manausage, Deathflare without Trance etc. Could be pretty tricky to get the efficiency working in random grps but in pre-made grps this could really be a new twist for a new cls-playstyle :3

Mimes ftw <3

[Steelbreeze]

I too thought a more practical and lore way to make Blu into the game would also be to make it a unique sort of tank, however the weapon choice is far beyond me, maybe mace and shield or something possibly a bit outside the normal for the job that we know today.

Whip.

/tencharacters

[Cabalabob]

Tank would be the most fitting role for BLU in the game as it is right now since tanks are the most versatile role.

They have damage skills for enmity, allowing BLU to learn attack spells like 1000 needles.
They have healing skills for recovery, allowing BLU to learn healing spells like white wind.
They have mitigation skills for defence allowing BLU to learn mitigation spells like mighty guard.

I really don't understand why people want BLU to only learn their spells in job quests, that would be incredibly boring. BLU could easily have a basic skill set using their weapon and learn blue magic on top of that from monsters in the world.

[Neela]

.... learn blue magic on top of that from monsters in the world.

isnt it the whole point talking about a Blue Mage at all? : o

pf would become more lively "Coil skill-farming BLUs only – only join if you mastered at least each one of a healing and tank selfbuff -> else kick!!11"


I'd love to go for skill hunting after all :3

[ADVSS]

Whip.

/tencharacters

Interestingly enough i was going to respond with something like "but the tamer job uses tha whip" but then i thought of how a whip could be used to draw and grab targets like holmgang sometimes works, and it would make an interesting tank mechanic could be used for a gap closer as well as swinging around ala belmont style for aoe rotations.

[Yorumi]

I really don't understand why people want BLU to only learn their spells in job quests, that would be incredibly boring. BLU could easily have a basic skill set using their weapon and learn blue magic on top of that from monsters in the world.

Consider how many bad players are in the game that can barely put a rotation together. You're going to have blus queuing with half or more of their skills missing. Now you put them in a tank slot and you have tanks queuing with most of their skills unlearned. Yeah that won't go over well. You'd basically have to make a special system for blus that ties level or ilvl to the skills they've learned so they don't make queue requirements until they learn skills. I'd love to see blu learning their skills, and especially as a tank, it's just given the devs mentality about this game that's why you're not seeing it. And a blu in name only(ie learns skills from job quests) isn't all that appealing to me.