My posting skills are below par, this was my first post, or my first 5...

Edited, Fri Sep 30 16:22:09 2005

Last quintuple post edit, so sorry about that.

Edited, Fri Sep 30 16:24:35 2005

I hope BLU is a new tank class. It's nearly impossible to find a tank. <.< >.>

Blue Mage... How about this scenario..
Blue Mage learns CURSE!
Engage mob, blue mage uses/casts Curse, ~70% HP/MP loss to the mob, remaining pt members whail on the mob, 2 seconds later mob dead, 200+ xp!
If this is possible, lvling would dramatically speed up.

Wow. I can't believe how many RDM are complaining about "how tough it will be with invites." I have a THF68 character. My roommate has a RDM58 character. I sit LFP for 3 hours then give up and go farm. He tells four blind invites {I'm sorry. I'm busy now.} thirty seconds after logging on. I don't think I've ever seen a RDM with his flag up when doing a /sea all inv. I don't complain about invites, so please don't either.

Anyway, I am stoked about BLU too, and don't see it as replacing RDM in all honesty. But what about the other job classes? There has been hint of a Geomancer class being added as well. I REALLY liked this class in FFT and have long thought that this game really lent itself to a Geomancer job.

I picture many ways that the Geomancer might work:
-Ability to use the terrain on which the mob is standing to create an elemental attack/status effect (ie. when on stone, uses a Break-type petrify/earth attack)
-Ability to use the terrain on which the player is standing to create an elemental buff (ie. when on water, uses an Aquaveil buff)
-Ability to use the current weather to create an elemental attack (ie. in Gloom weather can use a Drain attack)
-Ability to use the current day to create an elemental attack (ie on Firesday uses Fire/Burn)
-Ability to use the current direction faced to create an elemental attack (ie when facing sout-east, towards Garuda's constellation, you can drop a Wind-based shooting star on the mob)
-Ability to use the current moon phase to restore HP/MP (at a ratio depending on the phase, ie on a Full Moon restore 50%HP/0%MP and on a New Moon restore 0%HP/50%MP)
-Ability to use the current terrain to summon an elemental (ie. on metal summon a Lightning Elemental)
-etc etc etc

I think this job would be very interesting and relatively easy to implement using the games existing programming. Any thoughts?

Edited, Fri Sep 30 15:42:20 2005

all i care about is that it isnt threatening the thf. :)

Any word when this is gonna be released in NA?

I have a LOT of speculations on how BLU will be played. (I drive home thinking bout this stuff.. sad huh?)

Anywho, though a TP based abbility job would work nicely to keep it from being "overpowered" I believe it will use MP for the abbilities as a new spell class of "Blue Magic." And with my thinking, I just couldn't see how the BLU would "learn" an abbility like they are supposed to. So I'm guessin SE will set job lvls and make scrolls for certain mob abbilities like all other spells. Yeah, it sounds bad.. and it could be overpowered.. BUT there are tweeks SE can make to keep it from being to strong.

As with all (well, most) abilities and magic, they are bassed on a general stat that your character has in order to imrpove the effectiveness of the abbility or spell. So, all SE has to do is set the proper cast/recast timmers, set a stat to base the spells on (I think CHR will do it, BLU/BRD anyone?) and let the blue fly!! >.>

Also, this will be the first totally meleeable job (yay!) so for any mage who is tired of "sitting in the back and casting away" can get a bit of the hands on approach as well as debuff/damage the mob.

I also have speculations on 2 hours too. BLU 2 hour: Transform. Become a copy of targeted enemy for 30 seconds. Strong, devestating, and just good enough to pull the party out of tough situations while letting BLU keep their monster abbility stealing flair ^^

Anywho.. just my thoughts on the job. I think it would work, but that's just me.

I have a feeling that you'll get enemy abilities as spells in the same way that everybody else gets spells. At a certain level, the scroll becomes usable, you use it, BAM enemy ability gained. Many mobs throughout different level ranges may start dropping BLU scrolls corresponding to their special moves. In addition, hopefully there will be some rare/ex scrolls that must be quested and obtained from a force-pop NM so that the really cool moves must be earned, not just camped by gil sellers or BCNMed and sold for rediculous sums of money to the people with tons of gil.

The taru in the pics above appears to be doing spider web (slow attack) and either manticore or raptor flame breath attack.

It seems to me that BLU will be a damage/support class like RDM and BLM. There's also a touch of BST there, in that you'll be able to use enemy attacks. However, BLU won't have to worry about needinging a certain mob at the right strength in the vicinity to charm. It's all just speculation for now.

I just can't wait until it comes out so i can gather some more info on how the job actually plays. =\

I think it will be at the Safehold dock.

im so freaking excited about this i mean i really havnt gotten through the other 2 expansions still stuck on promy holla eww but yea blue mage looks awesome maybe just because i love mage jobs but i would love to run around in that af and all these new areas look amazing !!! what will SE come out with next i cant wait