(05-04-2015, 10:49 AM)Bryn Wrote: BLU could thus perform any of the three roles admirably, but not quite as well as jobs dedicated to those roles. It's real strength would come from buffs/debuffs unique to the class.
This is where I see a problem due to FFXIV's sticking to the Tank/DPS/Healer triad. I could see it having some abilities that might dip into the other roles (White Wind for Healing, Mighty Guard as a short term defensive buff to tank/help the tank), but I'd say it'd still have to stick to being a "DPS" class if it was ever implemented. Furthermore, I'd see it being like the BRD as a support-based class, using buffs/debuffs and its minor healing to aid the healers in topping folks off if needed.
(It'd be hilarious to have their personal LB3 be Self-Destruct, which wouldn't kill them but instead an AoE hit centered on them.)
But that's neither here nor there, I suppose, I just wanted to put my two cents in. As for RPing as the class, I stick to my Rule of How. If you can answer my "how?" question, I'm cool with it. Though I am liable to press further, kinda like Mercurias already did, if it seems a bit... sketchy? Is that the right word for it?
And the only real issue this envisioning of BLU brings to mind is that... it's just someone who can understand and learn all types of magic? That sounds more like the old... Sage class, I think? Or even a RDM - who could cast both White and Black Magic. BLU's allure, to me, comes from being able to use those beastly abilities no one else can - the Bad Breath and 1000 Needles - which this concept says they wouldn't be able to do.
Meanwhile, we have ALCs and we have the concept of crystallized beast aether (atma) that is already present in game. So I could totally see going the FFXI route of creating, say, a Morbol Atma by gathering enough Morbol Tentacles or whatever to concoct the infusion potion. It'd be neat (and kinda disturbing) to see a person going out to actively hunt couerls with a set of sampling shears and a wide-eyed look of excitement.
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