Blue Mage tank???

[Brightshadow]

While not that set, i can already wear armor as a mage, as i have quite a few platemail armor sets. (some from 1.0, Dated gear can be applied to all jobs, including the Lv40-49 platemails from dungeons)

I kinda of like it, just paint the pants Blue.

[Dualgunner]

It would look weird for a MAGE to be casting spells wearing THIS: .

It looks weird for *anyone* to be wearing that.

Is there some in-universe lore that states that armor of any kind stifles aetheric generation and conservation within a mortal vessel? If not, then there's no reason a mage *couldn't* wear heavy armor. And it would be no more stupid for them to wear all that junk than a tank.


of course, not to mention bikini tanks again, because that's not weird or anything.

[TaiyoShikasu]

snip.

"Hey, let me find literally the worst looking tank set in the game and use it to justify why a spellcaster can't tank."

Also, any new job would likely be starting well above the point that set and its variants are even worth using outside of really bad glamour.

[Zohar_Lahar]

I hope Ceruleum Mage is our long-awaited gunblade tank job.

[Duskane]

If creating content happened in a vacuum w/o cost, yes.
You realize Yoshi looks at the cost of resources to make such content, and then decides if its going to increase the number of subscriptions and expansion purchases, right?
Not if it increases the number of tanks by some small 1% or less.

You do realize he thinks of it all
>will people play this
>will this bring in new people
>would this make a good tank/healer/dps
>will this help fill up tank role

When you're making a game like this you need to think of the majority and minority ,
Tanks want another class but they also have to make it have a different appeal so others will try the role.

[Claire_Pendragon]

You do realize he thinks of it all
>will people play this
>will this bring in new people
>would this make a good tank/healer/dps
>will this help fill up tank role

When you're making a game like this you need to think of the majority and minority ,
Tanks want another class but they also have to make it have a different appeal so others will try the role.

all of which was addressed in our conversation so far, so what was the point of summing it up?

[Zyneste]

I realized what I WOULD WANT. I personally hated FFX-2's Gun BlueMage so gun blade goign to a different job is niccee.. What I think would be interesting would be something like a "Mirror" Shield user.

Have the soul stone learn spells from viewing monsters in the "eye" of the mirror on your shield. Maybe make the design less bulky by allowing the shield to expand and retract, similar to AST Globes that flatten when put away.

Just imagine light holding up the shield in front of you as you channel a large spell (lol block disabled during hard spell casting) with the mirror shooting out the spell or radiating the buff up your arm to you or straight around you.

Its a very Magey weapon considering CNJ (WHITE Mage base) and THM (BLACK mage base) had shields originally.

Im all for a BLU tank. Fits wayyy too well on too many things!

[Ryios]

Blue mage learns abilities from monsters etc etc. They should make it a wildcard class, where it can pick up any configuration for any roll. Tank, Healer, or Dps.