i've heard from a couple people that the three new jobs are blue mage, geomancer, and pirate, if it's true, you'd prolly get pirate from norg

I really hope they have more then one new job just for the fact that we need more ways to make things new I mean have you ever lfp on a sat night there is 100 of every job and when the new one comes out there will be 400 blu's

So they have finnaly come to there sences and made a bluemage... haha... good good... When exactly is this to be relesed...?

Like everyone else appears to be, my LS and I are quite fascinated with the idea of the BLU being introduced. There seems to be a lot of speculation as to how the BLU will learn, store, and use their abilities, and much like everyone else, I have a few theories.

1) Everyone remembers FFVII, noted as one of the greatest FF games from the previous decade. In that game, all spells and abilities were based on the Materia that was equiped to armor and weapons, meaning that one would be limited to the spells he/she could cast based on what Materia they had equiped. One of the Materia in the game was the "Enemy Skill" Materia, one of my personal favorites. This Materia gave characters the ability to learn any Enemy Skill that was used on them, with the exception of TP attacks, whether or not they lived through the attack. Such great spells as Shadowflare could be learned and used at any time, given the character had ample MP to cast it. Under this theory, the BLU would be able to learn such abilities as "Dream Flower" or "Sheep Song" (Sleepga), and possibly even greater abilities used by higher level mobs. If this is the case I would be very excited.

2) The next theory is conceived from the less than stellar FFVIII, in which no character really "learned" any spells, but had to "steal" them from mobs in battle. The spells were almost stored like items, allowing you to "steal" 8 uses of "Fire" or something of that nature. Once you cast "Fire" that 8 times, you could no longer use it and were forced to "steal" more. If this is the case, I am less than thrilled.

Either way, I'm glad to see that there is going to be at least one new job for the taking, giving a whole new aspect to the game and possibly changing the entire party structure as we know it. I'm personally more excited about hearing rumors of an Assassin job, but I have found no concrete information on this. I would speculate that it would be a combination of THF and RNG, using stealth and ranged attacks to eliminate the enemy. Either way, I can't wait to check out everything this expansion has to offer.

BTW, speaking of a launch port for the boat to reach the Far East lands; in Norg, there is a dock that is unreachable in the background of one of the areas. In talking to some of the NPCs in Norg and Jeuno, they mention Norg as being a possible Pirate's Haven, in which stolen or illegal goods are shipped and then sent out for disbursment. It wouldn't surprize me if that is the boat port, since Norg really doesn't have an exit area other than back into the Grotto.

That's just my 2 cents.

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No one has really brought up the fact that mob abilities are supposely TP based. So I wouldn't be surprised if BLU use TP to unleash mob abilities. Plus with the description of the Blade weilding. This very well become similiar to SAM but instead of supporting melee it will support mages. I would love to see a Magic Skill chain introduced to the game (like skill chains but with magic) example: Spider Web + Bind = Commatose with a "MB" of shield bash. lol I know it's out there but how exciting would that make battles?

does any one no the around bou price 4 this expansion?

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Hopefully BLU is a new tanking job that more ppl will pick.

I'm really excited by that Ship Graveyard lookin place.

It looks utterly SWEET.

This is a simple solution that will not break the game first of all, second make an enjoyable experience when playing a Blue Mage. First of all learning an ability could be simple set it up with a 2 hr ability. Make the 2 hour last the end of the fight with the mob. This will make it a chance that you learn the ability if the mob uses the attack and add to the thrill of the hunt on the harder NM's. Also make it that you can only learn the ability if you live through the attack. This will make all abilities something that you would have to stay close to the mobs level. Could you see a lvl 10 living thru sickle slash? For that matter a level 10 living thru screwdriver? And no worries at lvl 24 (aka utsusemi: ichi fans) you have to be hit with the attack not a shadow. balance yet entertainment.
give me your opinions. I like feedback

had another idea for a skill like the thief's evasion bonus that he gets as a passive ability. Make a Instant ability with a 5:00 miniute recast skill that makes a mob use his special ability at like lvl 20 and enhance the abilities sucess rate thru items and passive traits at higher levels like 30, 50, 60. This would be easy and would be like SAM's ability Store TP

Edited, Sat Oct 1 11:55:16 2005

On the subject of this expansion. I was think of this..

So if you need to ride a boat to get to the far east which it looks like you have too By those images. Well now Port Jeuno....it too full soo i don't think that will be where the boats launch. What i think their gonna do is make some changes to Norg and that will be the Boat launch For the Far East....It makes Sense. And that means if the New job is located in the new far east areas...It will likelly mean you have to be high in order to activate the Quest...30 seems too low...I think you will need to be a 50lvl or 60lvl todo it.... And that alone would solve everyone doing the quest the first day and all lvling it:)

Those new areas look very nice, especially that big city, seems like it'll be much larger than tavnazia or any of the zilart towns.

I hope SE don't the same crap they did with CoP and lvl cap half the missions and areas again. That would suck.