Add Blue Mages Already

[Tanathya]

Blue mage would most likely be a caster dps if it were added.

Blue mage would most likely be a tanks if it were added.

No one can say blue mage is going to be "most likely" this or that, given the nature of the job. The reason is right there within both of your posts.

[Seraphor]

No one can say blue mage is going to be "most likely" this or that, given the nature of the job. The reason is right there within both of your posts.

That was my point, sorry it was too subtle.

[Biridan]

Blue mage will likely be a disciple of the hand job crafting enemy skill consumables.

[Jandor]

Blue mage will likely be a disciple of the hand job crafting enemy skill consumables.

It'll obviously be a disciple of the land class. Going out and gathering skills from enemies is proper traditional BLU.

[Kowen]

If heavy armor wouldn't be appropriate... what if they wore caster armor, but had a trait/tank stance that converted INT into VIT, or something like that?

[Seraphor]

If heavy armor wouldn't be appropriate... what if they wore caster armor, but had a trait/tank stance that converted INT into VIT, or something like that?

I'd rather they just invented a unique version of a Blue Mage (like every other Blue Mage in the series) that fit into Heavy Armour.

Something like a Magitek Knight, a mystic knight with blue magic, for example.

[Tint]

If heavy armor wouldn't be appropriate... what if they wore caster armor, but had a trait/tank stance that converted INT into VIT, or something like that?

if they don't have the defense and m-defense the other tanks have on the gear, then they can't compete. when their defense is actually locked behind the stance and without stance they are as squishy as any DD, nobody will take this job into the dps-meta gameplay.

and a huuuge amount of life to compensate isn't the answer either. that's unbalanced in regards to healer output and needs a bandaid-fix from the start, like a passive healbuff.

and all in all... i don't see any reason why a mage can't wear heavy armor.

[Linx0r]

I don't know much about ff11 blue mage. I didn't even know they had one until this thread. The blue mage weapons I remember is khimari/Spear. Gau/claws. Realm/paintbrush.

Gau or Rhelm weren’t BLU in FF6....strago was and he used a staff

[Linx0r]

Gau isn't a blue mage, Relm isn't either. FFVI's blue mage is Strago.

Lol oops sorry for the duplicate

[Linx0r]

Daggers, long daggers, depending on the skin, NIN weapons range from dagger to barely a short sword. There's also the way they hold their weapons as well. Dual swords, done right, sounds pretty fun to me. We could also use another full physical tank like WAR.

I think if they actually implemented dual swords it would be nice as dps.