Grimoire SpeculationFollow

From reading the info put out by SE, I kinda got the impression that the "White Grimoire" only enhances self cast and party cast magic. The "Black Grimoire" would have positive effects on enemy target magics.

If this is the case then this job could effectively help all mage jobs. Including blu which is my current career.

I'm not sure why I feel the need to post this since there is only a few more days until we find out.

I've been wondering about that as well. Would all enfeebling magic be boosted by Black Grimoire and all Enhancing by White Grimoire. It would make sense either way really. That's something I'll definitely test out when I start playing Scholar.

I think white Grimoire will effect all White magic, Ie, paralyze, slow, silence, phalanx, anything listed in the Ah as a white magic and the while Black magic list for Black Grimoire. Makes sense. Only main issue i read, that White Grimoire only enhances Healing, Divine and Enhancing, so based off that, it would not Increase the skill for Slow, para and silence. I gues we'll have to wil till the EXP to see how it really works.

Link to Elmer's comprehensive translation of a JP write-up of the Altana Festival


With healing, divine, and enhancing being buffed by White Grimoire, it just makes me think that the exact opposite will be the case for Black Grimoire. So i would think Black Grim will prolly boost elemental, dark, and enfeebling.


Also, since SE has set the Grims to work off of specific magic skill, i think your Slow and Para -type White magic will prolly be under Black Grim since they are definitely enfeebling spells. Conversely, i expect spells like the spikes to get a boost from White Grim since they are enhancing spells even though they are from the Black magic school.


To the OP, from what i've seen from my own use, BLU magic type spells do seem to get a boost from the respective schools that they fall under. For me though, other BLU chime in please, i still don't see a huge boost in spell performance when i try to boost those skills. Except for the healing spells, but then that's healing spells and i dont think resists(full or partial) happen to them much anyways.


So i think BLU magic-type spells will prolly get some boost from the grims imo, but we'll just have to wait and see what kind of a boost though.

It seems wrong to me to have divine magic only get help from the White Grimoire when spells like Holy could alse be helped from magic accuracy and magic attack bonus that I assume the Black Grimoire will provide. Maybe the Grimoire boost the skill of the specific Grimoire attached but hurts all others. But the spell would still recieve the other effects the Grimoire provides.

If SE wanted only white mages to use the white glimore then they should make a Blue Grimoire the boost both physical blu spells and magic blu spells for blue mages to use - or a Summoner Glimoire(whatever color is inherently smn).

This is how I imagine the break down of Grimoires:

White Grimoire

Job ability that gives:
increase in Divine
Inherent increase in Enhancing
Inherent increase in Healing
Mp Conserve
Fast Cast

Black Grimoire

Job ability that gives:
increase in Dark
increase in Enfeebling
increase in Elemental
magic attack
magic accuracy

Blue Grimoire

Job ability that gives:
increase in blue magic skill
Compress AoE spell to single target
Self target spell becomes party AoE
increase monster correllation
increase magic potency
increase magic duration

"SMN" Glimoire

Job ability that gives:
increase SMN skill
MP Regen
Change local weather forecast w/ AoE
increase pet att/acc
pet/avatar regen
enemy taget recieves lower resistance to spells type

I really dont think SE will make a job which is uterly dependent on another job!
or a job which is a job enhancer, just by a piece of equipment to get similar effects!

I know it would be nice if there were grimoires that boosted Blue magic and Summoning magic, but I doubt there will be because when the grimoire was originally written they were both unknown.

Summoning was refined by Karaha-Baruha and he did that during the war, Blue Magic was "invented" by the alchemists in Aht Urgan and they took no part in the war, so neither would have been encountered by the people contributing to the grimoire until after the war, which leads me to believe that there will only be White/Black Grimoires.