The new video and Magic Skills

[Macht]

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did you ever think that maybe the Blue Mage magic skill will not fall under Elemental Magic... maybe it will be under Blue Magic. lol.

As far as the MP based spells... no one knows for sure yet. No one should assume anything. FFX version of Blue mage was MP based... but also consider the possiblities of it being like BRD in the sense that it couldnt cost MP at all. im just saying, not assume anything until they announce it for sure.

Doubt this, Blue Mage from FFX-2 (Gun Mage, was it's Blue Mage Version) and under have all been dependant on MP. As for what it'll fall under my guess would be Lore Magic, since that is what Blue Magic is. Blue Magic is not purely an element because it is coming from a monster and so it also adhears to the monsters strengths and weaknesses.

I called it Lore Magic going back to FFVI the Blue Mage there in order to use his magic you selected Lore (Fits since lore means to learn or trained in), and various other Blue Mages it was accessed by the selection Lore.

[tdh]

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Could somebody please post the link for said video? Or where we can get it. I've been searching for it, but can't find it. I've yet to see the two new jobs in action. I WANT NOWZ!!

[Jei]

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http://www.ffxionline.com/forums/vid...ation.vdo.html

^^v

[Aeni]

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If SE added mechanical "beasts" then it would be funny to have several FFVI abilities, like X-Beam and Missiles. LOL

[Khidir]

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Adding the mechs from FFX would be uber I liked killing them but they were pretty hard to kill considering how they buffed themselves and their special abilities, may be hard to players to handle

[Lmnop]

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Maybe they'll give BLU a different magic skill for every monster type. "Bird Magic" "Plant Magic" "Beast Magic" etc etc. Prolly not, but it could happen.

...addition to LEARNING the right moves, you need to EQUIP the right moves (sulk sulk)

more equip macros... ; ;

[Wiseman40]

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Maybe they'll give BLU a different magic skill for every monster type. "Bird Magic" "Plant Magic" "Beast Magic" etc etc. Prolly not, but it could happen.



more equip macros... ; ;

I don't think that's what they had in mind... Allowing blue mages to equip various spells on the fly would mean very little in terms of limitations due to equip macros that SE is very aware of. I believe that blue mages will need to equip spells in a mog house, or perhaps only be able to change their spell setup every few hours.

[LadyPeorth]

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Mechs in FFXI...nah...maybe...

*glares at Ultima/Omega*

I think they will, like the crab's scissor guard is one I'm thinking about. If anything their solo style maybe very close to Rdm, with debuff like dark spore and spider web being a stronger version of blind and slow, and scissor guard being a stronger version of phalanx?

Scissor Guard actually would fall under the same lines as Sentinel (Defense boost), but yea it might possibly work like Phalanx.

I think BLU's hardest to solo is that a lot of the best moves (or status inducing moves) tend to be either Breath or AoE. That's not to say all of them aren't, but a good number of them are. This is either a boon (WoW Mage type AoE leveling) or a Bane (makes you dead really fast). Guess we'll just hafta see.

The setup system makes me believe that no two BLU will be the same, but however will probably backfire and incur the "Must have 'This spell' equipped" or the "Heavy Heal/Buff BLU only."

I really really hope BLU doesn't easily just fall into one of the premade FFXI job slots and in fact could vary. A universal job is a lot more fun to play than a limited one.

[Last_Viper]

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don`t forget the setup points..

- after learning ability from monster, have to set it
- each spell will have a certain amount of setup points and blue mage will have a certain number of setup points
- can only set spells limited to setup points and max number can set per level

if a level 1 blu "could" get a high level spell, he maybe isen`t able to set the spell because of a lack of setup points.

you will also not be able to set all spells as i understand correct??? (don`t know if my english is good enough for this to understand right :-)

i`m really looking forward to see how BLU really works.

[Lmnop]

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correct, Last_Viper. being too low level to equip the most potent abilities is what I think will be genius about this job.

more equip macros... ; ;

this part was a joke, since the person I quoted is a Red Mage who equip swaps with pretty much every action he takes.

[Wiseman40]

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this part was a joke, since the person I quoted is a Red Mage who equip swaps with pretty much every action he takes.

Oh sorry... didn't get it

[cidthegreat]

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its not definate but it seems they already hinted at the fact that Blue magic falls in an entirely different category, only they dont call it Blue magic skill.

Official Job description:

Employing the legendary arts of Aht Urhgan, these formidable fighter-mages employ elegantly curved blades for close combat, while decimating their enemies from afar with fell magic mastered from their opponents.

note the word Fell Magic used. Thats probably what the new skill is called.

[Khidir]

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I'm not trying to stereotype before the game comes out but do you think this will finally be what the rdms and drks want?

A job that can melee and nuke without being grounded by a single trait ie refresh, low mp, drain

[WishMaster3K]

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Are you kidding? If this eradicates the melee RDMs that can't do either job properly, then I'm happy. Unfortunately, I think that most RDMs who melee only do so because they're RDMs and they think they're uber ._. so BLU might not fix this problem.

I personally wasn't too fond of ANOTHER DD, but at least BLU has debuffing qualities and will rely on them a lot more than DRK. It'll be interesting to see the versatility, because with their sapara type weapons, the damage won't be uber, their going to be more reliant on spells than DRKs, and their damage will be cut off from mitigating spells and melee.

So BLU will be a very technical job that I might ressurect my FFXI account for. It's April, isn't the expansion coming out this month O_o

[Khidir]

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I thought having a lot of dd jobs was a flaw se put into the game when you have a lot of the same categore people just assume one is just as good as another unless they stand out like nin, or assume some jobs like drg can out dd mnk.

Then again thats hypocritical for me to say since RNG is even matched to blm maybe more...
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