Potential future spells?

[DarkEpyon]

So I was messing around in AltanaViewer the other day and saw all the spells that have been there for a while that we don't have yet. So this got me to thinking how some of these might be implemented.

Goblin Rush: Three-hit attack + knockback. Could be a mid-level upgrade from Bludgeon or something.

Final Sting: Bees love to use this when they get low on HP. Possible single-target version of Self-destruct.

Dream Flower: Used by those damn mandragoras while leveling in the jungles and during a part of Apollyon. Upgraded Sheep Song probably, not that it would need one.

TP Drainkiss: Like our MP Drainkiss, this comes from leeches. This one could potentially revolutionize how the job is played. However, don't expect this one to be cheap MP-wise, and it wouldn't surprise me if it weren't available until the 60s or 70s.

Aerial Wheel: Ranged stun move used by orcs. We get melee and magic-based stuns, so why not a ranged one too.?

Pandemic Nip: Used by the gnats in the past areas. Single-target damage plus transfers enfeebles to its target. This could be an incredible solo spell, especially against imps with that damn amnesia.

Airy Shield: A move used by those of the ahriman family. Makes caster immune to ranged attacks. For us, it would probably reduce damage by a decent amount, but not all the way to zero.

Magic Barrier: Another ahriman move. BLU version of Rampart would be my guess.

Bubble Armor: Sahagin move that applies shell. No telling what tier of shell that would be in comparison to the white magic spells.

Shell Guard: Defense boost move used by Quadavs. Upgrade to Cocoon, perhaps?

Everyone's Grudge: Staple Tonberry move featured in several of the past FF games. Since the damage from the attack is based on a person's tonberry hate, it wouldn't surprise me if this functioned similar to the Paladin WS Atonement, where enmity played a part in damage. With all these defensive spells, this could work as an interesting BLU tanking spell.

Mortal Ray: Doom? Not no way, not no how!

[Omgwtfbbqkitten]

Re: Potential future spells?

I think most of these were spells they originally considered, but backed off from using for the sake of preventing redundancy or disrupting game balance. While I know in most FF games BLUs learn all the popular mob skills, I don't think they ever learned a Everyone's Grudge due to how the damage was calculated.

I'm sure SE isn't done with adding new mobs to WotG yet (just look at the other expansions) and this will probably be how BLU comes upon another set of new spells, though its usually in the update after the new mobs are added.

[Andrinor]

Re: Potential future spells?

I'm not sure we'll see most of those, but there are some monsters like Gnats, Wivre, Yovra (e.e) etc we currently have nothing to learn from. It wouldn't shock me to see them add spells from those monsters at some point when they get the balance right. I wouldn't count on seeing new spells from mobs we already learn something from.

[Malacite]

Re: Potential future spells?

If anything Battery Charge would be really nice.

[DarkEpyon]

Re: Potential future spells?

If it gave the same 3mp/tick like refresh and could be used with diffusion.. um... yeah. Don't bank on it.

RDM: "THEY TOOK OUR JERB!"

OK maybe not that extreme since it would only happen every 20 minutes (or less if it's fully merited).

But yeah, I too think they're done with spells from vanilla/RoZ/CoP/ToAU areas, but no way are they done with us altogether.

[Nuriko]

Re: Potential future spells?

Given what Battery Charge is like, I'd think you would need to CA it to have an effect greater than the casting cost ... still, it might be fair that way, trading TP and CA for MP. Think of it as a BLU's version of Chivalry. Oh, and slap a long recast timer on the spell...

[Feba]

Re: Potential future spells?

keep in mind there's a relatively huge amount of magic that's been sitting around since the days when BLU was a pipe dream.

[VZX]

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Spells animation is independent from character animation.

Those spell animation is most likely all mob's, but the developer picked blu casting animation as the model animation

[Yellow Mage]

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RDM: "THEY TOOK OUR JERB!"

Screw the Refresh, we said this way back when they started casting spells in the front line!

[Armando]

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I suppose they took DRK's job too if you wanna look at it that way.

[meSchnitzel]

Re: Potential future spells?

Blue Mage: Frontline like a Red Mage should and Stunning like Dark Knight does


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