Blue Mage (Tactics Advance)

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Unique among mages. Can "learn" monster techs.

In-Game Description

The Blue Mage (青魔道士, Aomadoushi?) is a job in Final Fantasy Tactics Advance granted only to humes. Blue Mages in Final Fantasy Tactics Advance wield sabers, and, in addition to the standard ability to learn monster abilities, can gain the ability to be immune to certain status ailments. As with the Blue Mages from most games in the series, they learn their abilities by being struck by the ability they are trying to learn.

It is notable that many abilities, such as White Wind, can only be learned when a Beastmaster in the party is controlling the monster or it is under the effects of charm, as a creature would never normally cast a healing or enhancing spell on an opponent.

Blue Mages cannot learn abilities from Morphers or allied Blue Mages; they must be learned from either the original monster or an opponent Blue Mage. Blue Mages are best used as a support job, especially due to the wide range of healing and support magic they can learn.

Goblins and Thundrakes will eventually become extinct, so Goblin Punch and Dragon Force must be obtained before then. The last opportunity for Dragon Force is Ogma the Worldwyrm (Mission #088 The Worldwyrm), one of the post-completion missions. Goblin Punch can be acquired from the Dark Knight in Mission #097 The Dark Blade, also post-completion.

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Prerequisites

• One White Mage A-Ability
• One Black Mage A-Ability

Stats

Move Rate	Jump Rate	Evade Rate
4	2	55

Weapon	Head	Body	Equip Shields?
Sabers	Hats	Clothing, Robes	No

Growth

The Blue Mage is the first magic-oriented advanced job available for humes. They are rather equally balanced in both physical and magical stats, but have the lowest MP growth of the magical hume jobs.

HP	MP	Attack	Defense	Magic Power	Magic Resistance	Speed
6.8 B-	3.6 C+	8.1 B-	8.4 B	8.4 B	9.2 A-	1.2 D+

Abilities

• Note on Goblin Punch:

Goblin Punch does a normal 100% damage attack, but the final damage is subject to extra variance:

$Final Damage = (Random[128-384] * Damage) / 256$

Blue Magic

Blue mage command. Use learned enemy ability.

Ability	Monster	Effect	MP	Power	Range
Goblin Punch	Goblin	All-out punch. Damage varies.	8	30	1
Magic Hammer	Red Cap	Mystical hammer. Deals damage to MP.	8	38	3
Acid	Flankind	Corrosive liquid. Inflicts random status ailment.	12	—	3
Blowup	Bomb	Self-KO. Deals massive damage to nearby enemies.	2	15	Self
Mighty Guard	Icedrake	Raises weapon def. and magic res. for one battle.	8	—	1
Guard-Off	Firewyrm	Fire breath. Lowers weapon def. and magic res.	10	—	1
Dragon Force	Thundrake	Releases the dragon soul within. All stats improve.	12	—	1
Night	Lamia	Call to the darkness. Puts all enemies to sleep.	24	—	All
Twister	Lilith	Whipping whirlwind. Reduces HP by half in an area.	20	—	3
LV3 Def-Less	Bugkind	Lowers magic res. and weapon def. in units with levels divisible by 3.	12	—	3
Matra Magic	Toughskin	Switches target's HP and MP.	24	—	3
Poison Claw	Red Panther	Poison claw attack damages and poisons target.	8	30	1
Hastebreak	Coeurl	Slows target. Stops hasted targets.	12	—	1
Bad Breath	Malborokind	Incredibly foul breath causes status ailments. Inflicts five of the following status ailments, chosen at random: Blind, Confuse, Frog, Poison, Silence, Sleep, Slow.	20	—	1
Stare	Floateye	Fearsome gaze. Confuses target. Inflicts Confuse on all units facing the caster with 100% accuracy.	12	—	Cone
Roulette	Ahriman	The roulette decides who is KO'd...friend or foe? Element: Dark	20	—	All
Drain Touch	Zombie	Evil touch. Drains and absorbs HP from target.	10	20	1
LV? S-Flare	Vampire	Shadowflares units with same one's digit in level. Heavy Dark damage to all units on the battlefield whose ones digit in their level is the same as the caster; this includes the caster.	30	55	All
White Wind	Sprite	Fluttering fairy wings. Heals HP equal to own HP.	12	—	3
Angel Whisper	Titania	Angelic sigh. Heals HP and bestows auto-raise. Element: Holy.	24	30	3

Reaction

Ability	Equipment	Effect	AP
Damage > MP	Judo Uniform	Converts HP damage to MP. (Doesn't work if MP is 0)	300

Support

Ability	Equipment	Effect	AP
Learning	Blue Saber	Study attacks againt you. Learn some as blue magic. Cannot be taught by Morphers and Blue Mages who are allies.	400
Immunity	Survival Vest	Confers resistance to some status ailments.	300

Combo

Ability	Equipment	Effect	AP
Blue Combo	Mythril Saber	Ranged combo ability for blue mages.	100

Gallery

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Trivia

• Blue Mages cannot equip Staves despite wielding one in their official artwork.
• Despite being mages, none of their offensive spells are based on Magic Attack except Blowup.

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