Since all of its skills are powered by MA, and they have long charge times, it needs MA most of all and isn't served by particularly high SP.

I really wish it wasn't locked into humans either, Blue Mage would sure be more useful to a Bangaa than a Bishop.Įxample 1: Black mage should IMO get access to most elements except holy and oddball effects (gravity, poison), and should have several levels of each spell with varying power, MP costs, and if applicable casting speeds. If you didn't have a beastmaster it was very hard learn them though, so I don't always use them or find reason to build one. So you can easily make a Paladin setup using Blue Magic for much better support options than White on the same build for example. They're mostly built for non-mages for some reason, because only a couple of spells actually used the magic stat in a way that mattered.

Tactics Advance had some really cool spells attatched to play around with. In 9 I'm not a fan of Quina in battle (forks are weird, some spells are neat but not nearly as fun as other games IMO), but it's the third-easiest way to learn them as it's basically the same as monster catching in other games. They just come in as you play most of the time. In 6 you just gotta use Lores, the rules for learning them are so relaxed that there's no reason not to. Either way you can pretty well just level up the class until you learn !Blue and change jobs for learning until much later. Doesn't hurt that the spells are pretty easy to learn in most cases in the game too so long as you weren't crazy about grinding, outside of the healing spells and Big/Mighty Guard. Earlygame it's pretty useful before the water crystal in that it's the only one of two jobs that can use the best weapons available, and the spells mostly have general purpose use in all builds through the game (White Wind is great on a Monk's HP for example). I always use every job in some way in FF5.

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