Get off the /mage bandwagon!

[Deeman]

C'mon blus...all those cool abilities u get and u waste it on /whm and /rdm? You can tank better than PLDs at that lvl (most are 1-25ish)! Stoneskin, Cocoon, Pollen! thats tank stuff all the way! Hell, u can have an all blu pt! 1 or two on /whm, a few on.../whatever doing DD and one /war using the tank stuff! Think about it...cause I see a lot of blu/whm or /rdms seeking for hours cause everyone and their mother's a /whm or /rdm. Step it up.

Just my two cent.

[little ninja]

Re: Get off the /mage bandwagon!

blu/nin nuff said!

[TheGrandMom]

Re: Get off the /mage bandwagon!

Give it time. People will explore all the possibilities before there becomes a "standard" sub for blu. Hopefully there will be several acceptable subs for blu and give people a broader variety.

[DakAttack]

Re: Get off the /mage bandwagon!

Blue Mages don't make good tanks.

Blu/Nin all the way.

[Balfree]

Re: Get off the /mage bandwagon!

I'm much more interested on BLM/Blu ^^

[Mog]

Re: Get off the /mage bandwagon!

Why sub blu for blm? I'm not seeing it o.o

[Nadien]

Re: Get off the /mage bandwagon!

what i love about the blue mage, is when they all form a 6 man party with all differnt subs, Wht, nin, war etc. looking at it that was being dirty with killing everything lol (can see this getting nerfed)

[forster]

Re: Get off the /mage bandwagon!

Currently running BLU/RDM just because I dont want to run BLU/WHM and end up a healer.

As soon as I get BLU to 20, Ill be subbing NIN for a bit and seeing how things go.

I'll stop playing BLU if it becomes a tank-esque class, that's really not how the job should be played at all to me. Yeah we get an early stoneskin, but god, the recast time and its lack of sustainment to anything higher than DC just doesnt work for me.

If I can /NIN well enough Im going 100% solo if that happens and it seems manageable.

[Nadien]

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Yeah but i've seen is that blue mage has worked with everything, even heard people say that if pals had provoke then that would be the ultimate tank

[Taskmage]

Re: Get off the /mage bandwagon!

Don't tell blue mages what they can and can't do until you've played it, please. For the most part the capabilities of blu are still being discovered. Metallic Body sucks I hear, at least at lower levels. No idea if it scales appreciably with mnd or blue magic skill.

There's nothing wrong with subbing mage for extra mp and support magic. It's a knee-jerk response for people to sub an mp job to a job with mp to give them more options, and there's sense in that.

blu/nin sounds like love though, what with the 1h sword skill and no shields. Maybe blu/nin will actually get their money's worth out of dual wielding Crimson Blades, unlike another job we all know and love >_>

[Kailea]

Re: Get off the /mage bandwagon!

I was thinking more of BLU/COR or BLU/WAR or BLU/SAM :p

[Eohmer]

Re: Get off the /mage bandwagon!

So far, from what *I* have seen as my friend was playing.... Pollen is better than Cure 1 as it takes the same amount of cast time, the same MP usage, and cures for .... I think 4 or 6 more points? Doesn't seem like much, but I don't see WHM being needed to sub to BLU.

[Kailea]

Re: Get off the /mage bandwagon!

well the only bad thing about Pollen is that it is self only

[Taskmage]

Re: Get off the /mage bandwagon!

Good stuff if you tailor yourself for a tanking role, though.
Setting Healing Breeze + Sheep Song gives you Auto-Regen, then Cocoon and Pollen for self-heal and defense buff. Seems like you'd be as durable or moreso than a pld at that level, assuming you can set all that.

[forster]

Re: Get off the /mage bandwagon!

Pretty sure you should have space and points to set those TM, as for /SAM actually thats not a bad idea. Perhaps later on however when we need TP to start making a difference.