I rencently quit this game to play Starwars Galaxies...And now something that looks very cool comes...Maybe i'll go back to it some time...Why did the expanion caome out after I quit?!?!?!WHY!?!?

If you want the Arabian flavor of the month, you've also gotta lvl Bard and grab the Sha'ir set. I do believe that set is said to originate from the same area as the Blue Mage's AF. Same for the Barone set.

On that same note, has anyone else had the thought that the other nations of Vana'diel, y'know, the ones outside of Bastok/San d'Oria/Windurst/Jeuno/Outlands, would ever be potential expansion areas? There's definately plenty of clues in the game already of "The Eastern Empire" (most definately Japanese in it's aesthetics, considering all that comes from it), and we also have a western nation/continent, as evidenced from the Brave set for Beastmasters (based on that, it would make sense that it's probably something along the lines of a Native American-style nation). The new expansion definately has an Arabian flair to it, so this, along with Rise of the Zilart, pretty much sets a precedent for other nation's themes (the core nations of Vana'diel, imo, tend to represent mideval England, industral age America, and a rural village in Africa).

In other words, has anyone else seen the similarities between Vana'diel and Earth, as far as themes go?

For those that say the Taru in the picture had just fnished casting by his arm positions; who's to say they wont include a new animation for the abilities?

A few questions. When is it do out? What about recipes for armor? What mobs will drop what types of armor.
Let's see how many players decide to try it the first week it's out too. Close to 50% maybe will be out there as "Blue Mage", and then start complaining they can't get a party invite because there are too many with the same job.

I am assuming that things will be hard for Blue Mages to gain an enemies ability. I see a few things that would probably need to happen. Many of the abilities will probably not be AOE, so the player would have to get hate and keep it long enough for the enemy to do the ability on said person. This would mean a blue mage would need to sub war to voke, but I can already see that would not be the best party sub... sooo...

I can see alot of people jumping on the bandwagon, but I probably won't be one of those. I remember a time in EQ when Frogloks came out as a new race and the world was innundated with the buggers for the first week or so.

yeah, this has to be a job where the mobs abilities can be learned with each lvl.

but ud have to actually fight the mob enough times in order to learn its ability. so if you wanna learn 1k needles you wont learn it until about 65-70+ when you can solo and have friends to help out.

but anyway thad be sweet as hell to learn 1k needles and that dahmel cure move thats Aoe thats be awseome but i think this would cost tp instead of mp becuase its not a spell its a ability so in order to use those PWNing moves we will need.

simple moves 30tp
simple but harder hitting moves 60tp
hard hiting moves100
very hard hiting 150
very nice dmg hiting moves 200
Devastating attack moves- 300tp (I.e 1k needles, cure move by dhanels, sickle slash)


with a little editing this could be come a very nice job

Blue mage will be the most attcking of all the mages.
I believe the blue mage learns his ability by recieving special moves casted by the enemy. For low level moves the recast time will be low like 30 sec to a min and for high level moves learnt the recast timer wil be around 15 min. Moves will also take up MP, the more powerful the move the MP used. I also believe the blue mages 2 hour will be similar to RDM chainspell, where the blue mage can keep casting the most powerful moves with no recast timer. I dont think scrolls will be used.

What about big magic from hnm, i would like meteor from KB, dragon breath or avatars magic(the one of the avatar prime you cant use on smn)...it should be crazy cool, can't wait to see by my own eyes

I know that galkas can be decent mages even with the crappy mp but I don't think galka characters are gonna be all hyped up about a Blue Mage. Hope they introduce some new low-level MP boosting gear with the expansion since the price tag on Astrals are rediculous. If you ever wanna borrow gear send a /tell to Loclavien. d(-.^)

*drool*

These landscapes look so much better than the mundane-ness of Tavnazia...

This is looking good, very good.

Rate up for SE.

after recently playing Prince of Persia - Sands of Time... I think I should make the following posits :

Blue mage specific weapons, probably Scimitar type heavily curved blades, in dagger, sword and great sword class, (HASSAN CHOP !)

Additional effect of said weapons, when equipped with a 'ammo' (a sand, a powder, some sort of consumable, perhaps in an hourglass/tank, like batteries and pumps)is 'Secret Leech', learn the power of your foes by engaging them in combat, each parry, strike and dodge teaches you thier ways and hence the ways in which they can be defeated Every successful attack gives you a hidden skill-up for that class of creatures attacks.

So you spend big gil on buying ammo, to learn from a new mob class but un-equip your sand when you fight something you've fought before so as not to waste it.

The strategic angle is kewl... need an earth attack, fight an earth based mob... need a fire attack, fight a fire based mob...

Combine with NIN... very kewl

Use NIN debuff magics, hit with stolen mob attack = quick toasted enemies.

Methinks Blue/Ninja will be a very kewl character class. Given the sort of lithe wiry sorts of stereotypes for both the Arabian 'Alladin' figures and that of the Ninja... it makes sense.

I think perhaps the only hedfugg will be organising and managing all those skills/attacks. To my way of thinking it may simply be organised by element. Each attack/buff/whatever has an elemental base. Instead of 'enfeebling magic', 'enhancing magic' etc, you simply have it categorised by element and as you skill up in each element you get access to higher and higher levels of attacks/buffs within that element.

Powering those attacks I think will be TP, not MP. Most of the mob attacks seem to be TP based so it stands to reason that thats what you would use. You suck your abilities from the non-sentient beasties, not the beastmen.

This makes Blue mages combat mages, not backfield artillery. My guess is they make them supremely agile and evasive, rather than tanks. They smell like DD's to me, unless they sub NIN for an adlib shadow based tanking system.

What really interests me is which main/sub combos will work best.

BLU/NIN - kewl perhaps
BLU/WAR - eh... dont think so
BLU/RDM - maybe
BLU/PLD - waste of time
BLU/BST - hmmm may indeed be kewl
BLU/THF - {evasion bonus}, {sneak attack},{can I have it ?}{yes please}
BLU/WHM - meh...
BLU/BLM - KILL ! {death} glass cannon-itis in its ultimate form
BLU/MNK - prolly alright but not brill
BLU/RNG - eh... nope
BLU/SAM - now... imagine...all that TP to play with and elemental attacks to throw, may be cool

I haven't bothered with the reverse combinations, (BLU sub), thinking about them makes it pretty obvious which ones may work well and which wont.

All in all... a cool expansion job.

Arabian style armor...dammit, I don't care what it is, it just got added to my "Jobs I need AF for" along with Drg(finished) Pld(in progress) War(started) and Rdm(slowly in progress).