Question about Blue Mage (not FFXI specific)Follow

I'm pretty sure Quistis' blue magic used MP to use, and Kimahri's may have as well. It really depends on the game and how its magic system worked.

As for learning them, it also depended on the game. Quistis used items to learn hers, Kimahri had Lancet, and I think Strago got hit to learn it.

Jaden, if I eat you can I get your special abilities?

Neither Khimari nor Quistis required MP to use their skills. Both were Limit Breaks and there was no MP in FFVIII.

I don't know if there were blue mages in FFIII, but,

FFV - Required you to have the Learning ability (or being a Blue Mage job itself) and you must be hit with the ability to learn it. Spells then required MP to use.

FFVI - Strago had to be hit with the spell to learn it, and then it cost MP to use.

FFVII - Required the Enemy Skill materia to be equipped and that person with it had to be hit with the ability to learn it, and then it cost MP to use.

FFVIII - Required the enemy to drop an item that could teach Quistis the ability. Quistis must Limit Break to use it.

FFIX - Required you to weaken the enemy to have Quina eat it and then learn it, and then it cost MP to use.

FFX - Required you to Lancet the enemy with the skill to learn it. Kimahri must Overdrive to use it.

FFTA - This one I only remember vaguely. There was a skill called Learning, so if I remember correctly it's the same as FFV. FFTA was so awful I barely remember most if it though (Assassin for the win).

FFV, VI, VII, and FFTA required you to be hit with the ability to learn it and required MP to use. FFIX learned the abilities differently but still required MP to use.

FFVIII and FFX were the oddballs. You learned and used blue magic differently in these games.

Although they may come up with a new system for XI, we'll likely see MP being used.

no.. I'm sorry I must drop an item to learn "Teh UB3RZ $eX1N3$$

Heh Zylle. :p /comfort

Gau wasn't a Blue Mage. He was more of a Trainer/Beastmaster. He resembled Trainer from FFV in that he could use any monster's abilities (albeit randomly) once captured for no MP, only he memorized the skills. In FFV you had to keep recapturing the monster. He's along the same lines of Relm. She's not a Blue Mage she's...well...well I guess you could call her a Pictomancer... >_> FFVI had lots of interesting jobs like that.

About using scrolls, maybe what they'll do is say that "at this level, you have the potential to learn this ability" but they won't say which level teaches what ability and they'll leave that to us. I am inclined to believe that they will indeed put a level limit on spells like all the other mages, even if simply for balance issues.