What Abilities Should BLU Get?

[Kalise]

So, leaving aside any and all issues of BLU and assuming that SE decide to really flesh out the job... (Also allow it to get spells from duties more easily *Cough*DF for BLUE*Cough*)

What monster abilities do you think that BLU's should be able to get in the future? What do you think they're missing?

So far, my list of abilities that I recall from monsters that I think could be cool or useful include:

Fireball - Puk's
Foul Breath - Raptors
Sneeze - Goobues
Dark Fire - Succubi
Mysterious Light - Pot enemies (Such as those found in PotD and Lost City of Amdapor (Hard))
Canopy - Treants
Lion's Breath - Certain Dragon bosses, such as Chudo-Yudo in Stone Vigil
Granite Rain - Non-Aspected Dragons
Rime Wreath - Ice Aspected Dragons
Dread Gaze - Ahriman (Also Basilisks and some serpents I believe?)
Screwdriver - Pugils
Bubble Spray - Megalocrab
Sour Sough - Blue Landtraps
Swift Sough - Red Landtraps
Typhoon - Koschei (Stone Vigil)
Hooked Burrs - Miser's Mistress (Aurum Vale)
Rotting Lung - Manxome Molaa Ja Ja (Wanderer's Palace (Hard))
Rotting Gas - Manxome Molaa Ja Ja (Wanderer's Palace (Hard))
Irritating Tendrils - Jellyfish
Unfinal Sting - Tarantula Hawk (Dravania Hinterlands)
Neck Rip - Wolves
Whipcrack - Certain Dragons
Bombination - Certain Dragons
Microblaster - Coeurls
Charged Whisker - Coeurls
Stagnant Spray - Efts
Burning Cyclone - Certain Biasts
Dragon Breath - Aiatar (Brayflox Longstop)

Just off the top of my head at least. These could be interesting additions to the BLU's repertoire (As well as providing more variety during leveling outside of Water Cannon spam > 1000 Needles spam into > *Cough*Solo class*Cough* Ram's Breath/Glower)

[Blueyes]

There are a few spells that I would like to see. I'll make note of some personal favorites.

Arboreal Storm - Dryad (North Shroud)
Blood Rain - Camilla (Masked Carnival - Beauty and the Beast)

Choco Kick - Wild Chocobo (The Dravanian Forelands)
Lumisphere - Vouivre (The Churning Mists)

Aetherial Spark - Salt Dhruva (The Lochs)
Shadow Burst - Creeping Edila (The Lochs)

[j103]

I'm actually quite surprised we didn't get Aqueous Discharge. It seemed like a no-brainer.

[zuzu-bq]

Can't wait for Level 60 BLU to get a ton of Dragon spells. I bet we'll get a Chocobo skill by then within Dravania as well.

[Dmhlucky]

Blu in FFXI had a reason to have multiple spells because of spell set bonuses and traits. Also the fact that different spells had different mods, Cannonball def mod etc, as well as elements and damage type properties that you could use to exploit weaknesses.
14 is a lot more linear with their jobs, much more basic, so there are really only a few things that matter, Potancy, Cost, Cast time and recast. Outside of the Carnival, Element doesn't matter, Damage type, barely matters.

And honestly, most people mainly look at the Potancy and thats it.

SE put a lot of effort into all of the jobs, making sure Most skills were normally utilized, or at least weren't obsolete. Even out of the 49 spells, there are already Several that won't be used.

Do i think there needs to be some diversity, yes, absolutely, however in a game where casting Fire spells on Ifrit, can kill it, or Freezing an Ice elemental is lethal... essentially, where elements mean nothing, having elemental diversity isn't of much use.

Maybe if they added Set bonuses traits for certain spells, but for now, there isn't much point adding new spells if they aren't upgrades, or part of a combo to any current ones.

[M1551NGN0]

Goblin Punch.

[Dmhlucky]

If its like it is in every other game, i don't want a variable damage spell. If there was some manner of consistency to it, like damage is based off prior spell with a set base potency, that would be fine.

[Jonnycbad]

For HW primals:

Ravana: Surpanakha
Bismarck: Slam
Thordan: Ascalon
Nidhogg: Horrid Roar
Sephirot: Ein Sof
Sophia: Quasar (Aoe Meteors like in FF6!!)
Zurvan: Soar

[Grimoire-M]

If its like it is in every other game, i don't want a variable damage spell. If there was some manner of consistency to it, like damage is based off prior spell with a set base potency, that would be fine.

I could see variable potency if it was an oGCD or that variation came from a positional, or extra crit/dhit damage.

[Kalise]

Maybe if they added Set bonuses traits for certain spells, but for now, there isn't much point adding new spells if they aren't upgrades, or part of a combo to any current ones.

It's quite possible for them to add more depth to skill choices.

I mean, currently BLU has no traits other than the basic 10% more damage/healing per 10 levels thing. So there's potential to add in traits that work of using certain types of skills.

Not to mention, they could also add in a level 50+ job mechanic, similar to how many other jobs gain a mechanic (Or secondary mechanic) after level 50. Something to entice comboing skills together rather than just mashing whatever 1 spell is numerically best.

Given that part of BLU's schtick is supposedly playing around with different skills that work together.

Though, this is asking a lot if they're going to keep it as a p̶i̶l̶e̶ ̶o̶f̶ ̶g̶a̶r̶b̶a̶g̶e̶ Limited Job...