Add Blue Mages Already

[Garry]

If Blue Magic and its associated quests are tied to learning from the beasts and creatures of the natural world, I'd be surprised if it was based on magitek. I'd expect more of a tie in to the Beast Tribes (or perhaps even Thavnarian alchemy) in place of Garlemald. I also think that heavy armor and bladed weapons are over-represented with tanks at the moment. You need an aesthetic that feels different from the present tanks.

I'm personally hoping that Blue Magic incorporates shape-shifting, perhaps in the same vein as Vincent Valentine's beast forms.

Either way, here's hoping for a tank which doesn't use slashing damage. At the very least, let it be an excuse to put an end to that awful slashing debuff for good.

Thats pretty fair they are all slashing based.

That said just because the guy has a gun blade doesn't mean they need heavy army. COuld easily use light armor or something. While using some sort of magetek field generator for protection.

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Just look at the one user we know of. that could easily be a blue mage. That person has pretty light looking armor. While the blue mage class quest line could totally have a "getting back to nature/balance with nature vibe"


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Plus vicent's beast form even that is kind of magetek because that is a result of experimentation done by cerberus. If you go a route of Blue mage being kind of a cruel job about stealing the aether from beast to gain access to mana, but doing the job quest it turns into more of a quest to bring balance and harmoney to the aether of hydallynn or something.

Edit: Also gunblades like squals aren't really ranged weapons, they are melee weapons that have an explosive edge when the trigger is pulled. While lightining weapon transforms into either a gun or a blade.

Really the door is open for weapon type for a blue mage, as they used forks/swords/baces/lance/etc. That said 11 had them using swords. in the main line games blue mages from what i rememberh ave never been true spell casters and really relied one weapon skills or weapon based attacks for consistant out put during any given fight. So a iconic weapon basic attacks would go a long way. That said it would exciting is blue mage wasn't limited to the boring 3 attack combos of the other tanks and did something alittle different.

[Grimoire-M]

Really the door is open for weapon type for a blue mage, as they used forks/swords/baces/lance/etc. That said 11 had them using swords. in the main line games blue mages from what i rememberh ave never been true spell casters and really relied one weapon skills or weapon based attacks for consistant out put during any given fight. So a iconic weapon basic attacks would go a long way. That said it would exciting is blue mage wasn't limited to the boring 3 attack combos of the other tanks and did something alittle different.

It really depends on the blue mage iteration we're talking about. If it winds up as a caster it'll likely be still be in melee range a lot given the sheer number of attacks that still demand being close up that are among the recurring Blue Magic. If the devs really go off the rails and focus heavily on the beast tribes there's more room for traditional spells but I'd expect an angry reaction as a result of that. The only reason for it to be a caster though is because of White Wind/Angel's Whisper, which would most realistically translate into a Medica cooldown and Raise respectively. Every other recurring support ability can be adapted to work in any other role.

[Rayo]

Edit: Also gunblades like squals aren't really ranged weapons, they are melee weapons that have an explosive edge when the trigger is pulled. While lightining weapon transforms into either a gun or a blade.

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Just gonna point out FF14's version of the Gunblade is the Hybrid weapon type, being both a Sword and working Firearm at the same time. This doesn't really change it from being capable of being a Vibro-weapon but FF14's Gunblade already has an identity outside of referencing FF8 and 13