Do you people even REMEMBER Blue Mage?Follow

Gau, Quistis, Quina, Enemy Skill materia... FFTA?!

Has anybody played Final Fantasy 5? That's where it all began for Blue Mages, and the job system. And it was great job, blue mage.

You really could learn all of those super overpowered moves that monsters used, but there were limitations... not ALL moves could be learned.

Also, let's not neglect Kimahri Ronso (FFX) when discussing past blue mages.

Nice Rebuttal.

That comment broke my sarcasm detector. :(

Well, if you WERE being sarcastic, I saw no need to further rebut, because I knew the other folks on this forum would do a better job of explaining BLU's merits in previous FFs than I could, and they have.

All in all, BLU is one of those jobs that takes time and effort (and probably research) to get it up to its full potential, but a BLU equipped with all of his spells is a very formidable character in almost every FF they've appeared in.




Yes. Aside from the Eden summon, it was the only attack in the game that could hit for 5-digit damage.


As for Throat Stab/Slash, I highly doubt we're going to get that one, or any sort of "instant red HP" attack. Don't get your hopes up.




I'm not certain, but I'm pretty sure that in that game it was impossible to miss any sort of Blue Magic forever. I thought that there's always some enemy you can go back to that will have it, if you've missed one.

Edited, Sun Sep 18 11:32:20 2005 by Fynlar

Blue Mage has always been one of my favourite jobs in FF5, FF6 (Strago for the win), FF7 (MIGHTY GUARD, YES), FF9 (Quina may be the ugliest thing ever but Blue Magic is totally awesome), FFX (Khimari had a dumbed down version of learning enemy attacks.) and FFT:A (MATRA MAGIC = OWNED).

I just love to collect monster abilities and use it against them. Some monster abilities are highly awesome, as previous posters mentioned. I think everyone could use Beetle's or Single/Triple Bat's Evasion Down attack. What about Tiger's Roar (Massive AoE paralyze)? Don't forget Magic Pot's Battery Charge (MP restore). Ahriman's Level 5 Petrify and Ram's Petrify Breath is totally awesome too (Except against a Red Mage, as Red Mage, in the rare occasions I get petrified, it never lasts more than a second, even against T-IT).

In fact, Blue Mage might be too powerful, and it may cause the price of Reraisers to go up (In other FFs, to learn an attack that would easily kill you, you'd have to have Reraise up and get back up quickly to learn it).

In all seriousness, Blue Mage is too awesome. I'm totally taking it up for a try in FFXI.

About FFX Blue Magics, try this link:

http://db.gamefaqs.com/console/ps2/file/final_fantasy_x_blue_magic.txt

If that doesn't work, just head to the FAQs section for the game on www.gamefaqs.com and look up the Blue Magic List.

I am pretty sure each one of the Blue Magics are from fights that can be repeated...

That actually is the case in a number of FFs and many other games as well; there would be certain abilities or Blue Magics or whatever where you only had a limited number of shots at, and after that you've missed them for good (otherwise known as crossing the "point of no return"). Just wanted to point out that I didn't believe FFX belonged in that list. :P

As far as I can remember, I found five ways to do 5-digit damage. I can't remember the fifth, but I know two of the others were Chocobuckle and that suicide move that removed the character from the battle.

I didn't really care for it much in other games but I think SE will make it really different than what we've seen in the past. I will most certainly try out the job. I won't let past games tell me how it might be in the new expansion. I will just have to wait and see for my own eyes. =)

Wear a ring that nullifies or absorbs fire damage.

I loved enemy skill materia in FF7. Mighty Gaurd, White Wind, Magic Hammer, Beta, Trine, Magic Breath, Aqua Breath, were all great (Mighty Gaurd especially, Protectra Shellra Hastega).

Some useful things BLU might get in FFXI:
Sleepga (Trap, sheep, and Mandragora Family)
Dispel (Wyvern [AoE], Dragon [AoE], and Eft [cone] family)
Slowga (Spider and Demon family)
Bind (Antlion, Orc, and Walking Tree family)
Blindga (Antica and Antlion Family)
Paralyga (Tiger and Wyvern family)
Defence Bonus* (Antlion, Crab, and Crawler family)
MP/TP Drainkiss (Leech family)
Drainga (Ghost and Skeleton family)
Stun (Yagudo [AoE/single], Weapon [AoE], Orc, and Quadav family)
AoE Damage (Scorpion, Crab**, Orc**, Yagudo**, Goblin/Moblin, Lizard, etc. Family)
Big Single Target Damage (Orc, Pugil, Spider, Scorpion, Dahmel, etc. family)
Various STAT Down effects (Bat, Morbol, Mandragora, etc. family)

*: Self only, not sure how BLU works, but might not be able to learn such things.
**: Has an additional effect.

And many more I can't think of now, but those are the useful ones that came to mind. You have to think outside the normal EXP mobs sometimes. Mostly because you don't exp on those mobs because of said abilities.

EDIT:
You can't be paying much attention to those crabs your fighting if you think that stoneskin is of any use. It blocks, typically, about 20-50 damage. It's a joke. Clearly Crabs have **** for MND.

EDIT2: posted a more complete listing here.

Edited, Sun Sep 18 17:45:42 2005 by FaffyOfDiabolos

Armor Break, Full Break, Shell Crusher, several katanas


Weapon Break, Full Break


Gravity, Lunar Cry, Shield Break, Full Break, Dotanuki (LV55 GKT)


Lunar Roar


Lunar Cry, Full Break, as well as the plethora of blind-effect spells and weapons

Edited, Sun Sep 18 17:25:21 2005 by redvenomweb

Yeah I forgot about weapon skills.. but would any WAR really gimp their effectiveness and use one of those instead of something like Sturmwind, Raging Rush, etc.?

Sleepga is pretty much the only -ga type of spell you'd ever use in this game outside of during farming. Drainga might sound like a cool idea, but I doubt it would be enough to keep you alive if you used it on more than one mob.

they confirmed blue mage in japanese webpages but few people translated it for us so it is confirmed for BUM/BLU ^^