i am tired about people trying to piece together these jobs nobody has heard of, that they want to be like the best in the game. all i want is for squaresoft to bring back the classics. c'mon, guys, this game has a setting like final fantasy 3 (3 NOT 6) gunblade?! magitek?! that is ASSENINE! seriously, what would be the point of a gunbladesman, anyway? all the gunblade was, was a gimmick! it was useless!

ffvii sucked anyway...

I think that Blue Mage is VERY workable if you think it through and put some rational limitations on it. Here's what I've come up with in just the few minutes that I've given it some serious consideration:

Blue Mage: Learns the magic abilities of mobs. Magic here is important. Bomb Toss, as mentioned in the above post, would not qualify as it is a weapon that requires ammunition, not an ability. So no bomb toss for our BlM. Bomb Toss would remain the bane of our collective existences. :)

The BlM would be able to learn the abilities of normal mobs only after that ability has been used on them explicitly (not on someone in the party). This would make it a little more difficult for BlMes to learn the abilities in a party as they are not exactly tanks. This would also make soloing well worth the effort. Lack of XP while soloing would be less of a pain for BlMes as they are raising their magic abilities while soloing. BlMes would need to use a job ability to learn the ability after it is used on them. This would allow some choice on what abilities the BlM attains which would also let the BlM keep down clutter in their menu.

NMs. The 2Hour of the BlM would be the special attack learned from an NM. Note that I said attack; singular; as in ONE. The BlM would be able to learn any NM's special attack, but would only be able to equip one at a time. So if invincibility is the ability a particular BlM wants to learn, he/she has to learn that from a NM and choose not to learn any other NM's special. If they do learn another NM's special after learning invincibility (for example), invincibility is no longer available to them. And this WOULD be their 2hour and operate just as everyone else's 2hour. It would last for a particular amount of time and then be unavailable for 2 hours. NMs' special abilities would also be the only exception to the "must be targetted toward the BlM" rule. This would also require a quest to get the ability, which would be separate and distinct from the standard leech ability.

BlMs would have NO scrolls. Every ability that a BlM would have access to (other than basic melee) would HAVE to be learned from mobs. Also, it would not be a 100% chance that they would learn the mob's ability on an attempt. The success of a learn attempt would depend on attributes like MND and INT. This would help to balance out the cost discrepancy between BlMs, BLMs, WHMs, and RDMs. While BlMs would not have the cost of scrolls to burden them, they would have to stay VERY current on their gear. Much more so than WHMs and the like, who tend to focus more on scrolls than gear due to the cost involved.

That's what I've got so far. Any thoughts, ideas, additions, problems? :)

i think there should be some sort of undead char (not drk), that actually has eqp that makes it look evil. i also think there should be a new tp system rewarding 300tp moves bla bla bla lets see

probly not, just a 1 time buy of the disc.
probly about 30-40-50$US range.

like the 6 xpansion to EQ.
buy disc, install, play as normal.

they did this once already, you just didnt realize it. some the 'advanced' jobs are only possible is you 'registerd' 'rise of the zilart'.
also there are high level areas only available if you didnt 'register'

hey, that would be awesome if those were the new jobs but what are these sources you say youve heard this from?