Blue Magic (Final Fantasy V)

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Bartz casts the Blue Magic Death Claw.

Perform blue magic.

Description

Blue Magic (あおまほう, Ao Mahō?), also known as Blue, is a Magic skillset in Final Fantasy V. It is the special ability of the Blue Mage, and marks the first way in Final Fantasy to use magic learned from enemies.

Blue Magic comes in a variety of different forms, from offensive spells to positive enhancements. Some of the most useful spells in the game are Blue Magic.

See also: Blue Magic

Mechanics

The character must be hit by the Blue Magic spell either as a Blue Mage or with the Learning ability equipped while in another job to learn the spell. Only one member is required to learn a specific spell for it to be used by the others. Some enemies never normally use the desired spell onto the party and must be forced to do so to learn it. The Blue Mage needs not live through the attack to learn it, as long as another party member gets through the battle alive the desired Blue Magic spell will be acquired.

Blue Magic is the only school of magic that cannot be Dualcasted. Unlike other types of magic, Blue Magic is not disabled if the user is silenced.

Most Blue Magic spells have their own effect formulas, but the Aero spells use the damage formula of the other spells.

Aero spells' parameters are calculated as follows:

$Attack = Spell Attack + (0..(Spell Attack/8))$

$M = (Level*Magic Power)/256 + 4$

$Defense = Magic Defense$

If the target absorbs Wind, it will be healed instead of damaged; and if it has elemental immunity, the attack misses. If the target is resistant against Wind, the Attack modifier in the above formula is halved; and if it is weak against Wind, the Attack modifier is doubled and the spell will ignore the target's Magic Defense.

$Damage = (Attack - Defense) * M$

Damage is capped at 9999.

The Blue Magic skillset gives characters the Blue Mage's base Magic unless otherwise already at a higher value.

Upon mastery, Freelancers and Mimes gain the Blue Mage's base Agility, Stamina and Magic unless they already have a higher base from another mastered job.

List of spells

The following is a list of Blue Magic. Enemies in italics must be controlled by a Beastmaster and "forced" to attack for the Blue Mage to learn the skill from them. An alternative is to confuse them into casting spells onto the Blue Mage (only applicable to self-helping skills, or in certain cases, with the help of Reflect). Enemies in bold must be given MP to use Blue Magic.

Ability	MP	Learned From	Effect	Image
Doom (Condemn)	10	Exdeath, Azulmagia, Hades, Unknown (#172), The Damned	Kills one enemy after 30 seconds.
	Curses one enemy to die in 30 seconds.
Roulette	1	Parthenope, Azulmagia, Death Dealer, Shinryu, Hades	Kills one random ally or enemy.
	KO's a randomly chosen target.
Aqua Breath (AquaRake)	38	Dhorme Chimera, Manticore, Leviathan, Bahamut, Azulmagia, Crystal, Enuo, Famed Mimic Gogo, Aquagel	Deals non-elemental damage to all enemies (Spell Attack = 75). Deals 8 times the damage to desert enemies.
	Uses bubbles to surround and damage all enemies.
Level 5 Death (L5 Doom)	22	Page 64, Level Checker, Azulmagia, Executor, Enuo, Level Tricker	Kills enemies whose levels are a multiple of 5. Ignores death resistance.
	Hits targets with levels that are multiples of 5.
Level 4 Graviga (L4 Qrter)	9	Ghidra, Level Tricker, Level Checker, Azulmagia, Executor	Casts Graviga on enemies whose levels are a multiple of 4.
	Hits targets with levels that are multiples of 4.
Level 2 Old (L2 Old)	11	Magic Dragon, Level Checker, Azulmagia, Executor, Shinryu, Level Tricker	Inflicts Old on enemies whose levels are a multiple of 2.
	Hits targets with levels that are multiples of 2.
Level 3 Flare (L3 Flare)	18	Exdeath, Level Checker, Azulmagia, Executor, Shinryu, Red Dragon, Archeosaur	Casts Flare on enemies whose levels are a multiple of 3. (Spell Attack = 254, pierces MDef)
	Hits targets with levels that are multiples of 3.
Pond's Chorus (FrogSong)	5	Azulmagia, Elf Toad, Archeotoad, Kornago, Farfarello, Gilgamesh, Lemure, Vilia	Inflicts Toad on one target.
	Inflicts one enemy with toad status.
Lilliputian Lyric (TinySong)	5	Mini Magician, Gilgamesh, Cherie, Farfarello, Azulmagia, Vilia, Mykale	Inflicts Mini on one target.
	Inflicts one enemy with mini status.
Flash	7	Crew Dust, Ramuh, Neon, Gilgamesh, Necrophobe, Azulmagia, Headstone, Orukat, Parthenope, Stone Mask	Inflicts Blind on all enemies.
	Inflicts darkness on all enemies.
Time Slip	9	Traveler, Gilgamesh, Azulmagia, Cherie	Inflicts Old and Sleep on one target.
	Causes sleep and old status on one enemy.
Moon Flute (MoonFlut)	3	Page 256, Jackanapes, Mykale	Inflicts Berserk on all allies.
	Causes berserk status for all allies.
Death Claw (DethClaw)	21	Death Claw, Treant, Gilgamesh, Soul Eater, Azulmagia, Iron Claw, Objet d'Art, Strapparer	Reduces a target's HP to single digits and inflicts Paralyze.
	Brings one enemy to the point of death. Causes paralysis.
Aero	4	Moldwynd, Gigas, Magissa, Mykale, Azulmagia, Defeater	Deals Wind-elemental damage to one or all enemies. (Spell Attack = 20)
	Deals wind damage.
Aera (Aero 2)	10	Gigas, Enchanted Fan, Page 32, Gilgamesh, Enkidu, Abductor, Azulmagia, Galajelly	Deals Wind-elemental damage to one or all enemies. (Spell Attack = 50)
	Deals wind damage.
Aeroga (Aero 3)	24	Enchanted Fan (Metamorpha version only), Magic Dragon, Elm Gigas, Crystal, Baldanders, Azulmagia, Neo Exdeath, Dark Elemental, Enuo, Cherie, Ziggurat Gigas (Zephyrus version only)	Deals Wind-elemental damage to one or all enemies. (Spell Attack = 140)
	Deals wind damage.
Flame Thrower (Emission)	5	Prototype, Flame Thrower, Mecha Head, Omega, Omega Mk.II, Triton, Great Dragon, Azulmagia, Claret Dragon, Mindflayer	Deals Fire-elemental damage to one enemy. (Spell Attack = 50)
	Engulfs one enemy in flames.
Goblin Punch (GblinPnch)	0	Goblin, Black Goblin, Gilgamesh, Gobbledygook, Azulmagia, Sahagin, Nix	Deals non-elemental damage to one target. If the target's level is same as the caster's level, deals 8 times the damage instead. Ignores row positions and weapons' special effects (e.g. Excalipoor hits at full power and Chicken Knife has no chance to cause fleeing).
	Attacks one enemy with a goblin's strength.
Dark Spark (DrkShock)	27	Black Flame, Strapparer, Ushabti, Azulmagia, Hades, Shadow	Halves the target's current level.
	Halves target's level.
Off-Guard (GuardOff)	19	Magic Dragon, Ziggurat Gigas, Ushabti, Azulmagia, Page 256, Shadow, The Damned	Halves the target's Defense.
	Reduces target's defense.
Transfusion (Fusion)	13	Mythril Dragon, Gargoyle, Birositris, Devilfish, Unknown (#169), Mover	Sacrifices the caster and fully restores one target's HP and MP.
	Sacrifices caster to completely restore an ally's HP and MP.
Mind Blast (MindBlst)	6	Wendigo, Twintania, Mindflayer, Azulmagia	Deals non-elemental damage while inflicts Sap and Paralyze to one target. (Spell Attack = 80)
	Attacks one enemy and causes paralysis and sap status.
Vampire	2	Steel Bat, Blood Slime, Abductor, Zombie Dragon, Enkidu, Dark Aspic, Python, Mercury Bat, Azulmagia, Achelon, Dechirer, Shadow	Absorbs HP from target and restores caster's HP. The amount it absorb is calculated $(Max HP - Current HP)/2$ The GBA version is bugged so that the formula is not divided by 2 at the end.
	Absorbs HP from one enemy.
Magic Hammer (Hammer)	3	Byblos, Drippy, Apanda, Azulmagia, Oiseaurare	Halves target's MP.
	Halves target's MP.
Mighty Guard (MghtyGrd)	72	Ironclad, Stingray	Grants Protect, Shell, Float to the party.
	Casts Protect, Shell, and Levitate on all allies.
Self-Destruct (Exploder)	1	Azulmagia, Motor Trap, Bomb, Purobolos, Grenade, Gilgamesh, Prototype, Unknown (#171)	Kills caster to deal non-elemental piercing damage to one target equal to user's current HP.
	Sacrifices caster to deal massive damage to one enemy.
????	3	Azulmagia, Kuza Beast, Tyrannosaur, Wild Nakk, Behemoth, Gel Fish, King Behemoth, Mecha Head, Numb Blade, Traveler	Deals non-elemental piercing damage to one target equal to caster's Maximum HP minus their current HP.
	???
1000 Needles (Blowfish)	25	Azulmagia, Lamia Queen, Cactus, Hedgehog, Lamia, Lemure, Mykale	Deals 1000 damage to one target. Damage cannot be reduced.
	Deals 1,000 damage to one enemy.
White Wind (WhiteWind)	28	Enchanted Fan, Dark Elemental, White Flame, Hellraiser	Restores HP to party equal to caster's current HP.
	Restores each party member's HP by an amount equal to the caster's current HP.
Missile	7	Prototype, Rocket Launcher, Enkidu, Gilgamesh, Mecha Head, Soul Cannon, Azulmagia, Motor Trap	Reduce target to 1/4 of its current HP.
	Quarters an enemy's HP.

Earliest each Blue Magic can be obtained

• Goblin Punch from Black Goblin in the Wind Shrine
• Aero from Moldwynd in the Wind Shrine
• Vampire from Steel Bat in the Pirates' Hideout
• Flash from Headstone on the North Mountain (enemy needs to have an Ether used on them)
• Moon Flute from the Jackanapes in Walse Tower. However, at this point in the game the battle is unwinnable unless the party has gone through severe grinding. (The player is better waiting to get it from Page 256 in the Library of the Ancients.)
• Pond's Chorus from Elf Toad in Walse Tower (enemy needs to be alone to use it)
• ???? from Wild Nakk in forests near Karnak
• Self-Destruct from Motor Trap on the Fire-Powered Ship (enemy needs to be in critical health or hit with a Thunder spell)
• Aera from Gigas in a monster-in-a-box in Karnak Castle
• Death Claw from Iron Claw boss in Karnak Castle
• Aqua Breath from Dhorme Chimera in the desert north of the Library of the Ancients
• Transfusion from Mythril Dragon in the Library of the Ancients area in the world map (must be controlled by a Beastmaster)
• Missile from Motor Trap on the Fire-Powered Ship (must be controlled by a Beastmaster)
• Level 5 Death from Page 64 in the Library of the Ancients (learner must be on a level divisible by 5)
• Off-Guard from Page 256 in the Library of the Ancients (must be controlled with a Beastmaster)
• Magic Hammer from Byblos in the Library of the Ancients
• Dark Spark from Black Flame on the Crescent area on the world map
• Flame Thrower from Prototype in the islands near Crescent
• White Wind from Enchanted Fan inside the Ronka Ruins (must be controlled by a Beastmaster)
• 1000 Needles from Lamia inside the Ronka Ruins (must be controlled by a Beastmaster)
• Level 4 Graviga from Ghidra in the final area of Ronka Ruins before talking to King Tycoon (learner must have level divisible by 4)
• Time Slip from Traveler in the Barrier Tower
• Level 3 Flare from Red Dragon in the Barrier Tower monster-in-a-box
  • Use Chemist's Mix ability Dragon Defense (Phoenix Down+Dragon Fang) to cast Reflect on the enemy
  • Control it with a Beastmaster
  • Use Level 3 Flare on the Red Dragon and bounce the spell onto a single randomly targeted party member
  • The learner must be on level divisible by 3
• Level 2 Old from Level Tricker in Barrier Tower (found towards the top of tower)
  • Use Chemist's Mix ability Dragon Defense (Phoenix Down+Dragon Fang) to cast Reflect on the enemy
  • Control it with a Beastmaster
  • Use Level 2 Old on the Level Tricker and bounce the spell onto a single randomly targeted party member
  • The learner must be on level divisible by 2
• Aeroga from the Metamorph in Ghido's Cave (uses it in Enchanted Fan form)
• Lilliputian Lyric from Mini Magician in the Great Forest of Moore
• Doom from Exdeath boss in Castle Exdeath
• Roulette from Parthenope in Phoenix Tower (Obtainable once you get the Airship)
• Mighty Guard from Stingray in the coastal waters above the sunken Walse Tower (must be controlled by a Beastmaster) (Obtainable once you get the Airship)
• Mind Blast from Wendigo boss in the Island Shrine (Obtainable once you get the Airship)

Other appearances

Final Fantasy Airborne Brigade

Ability Cards

Death Claw (SR).

Flamethrower (SR).

Death Claw (SR+).

Flamethrower (SR+).

Aeroga (SSR).

Aqua Breath (SSR).

Moon Flute (SSR).

Aeroga (SSR+).

Aqua Breath (SSR+).

Moon Flute (SSR+).

Aeroga (UR+).

Legend Cards

Death Claw (Summon).

Goblin Punch (Summon).

Aerora (SR).

Aerora (SR).

Aerora (SR+).

Aerora (SR+).

Death Claw (SSR).

Goblin Punch (SSR).

Moon Flute (SSR).

Death Claw (SSR+).

Goblin Punch (SSR+).

Moon Flute (SSR+).

Self-Destruct (UR).

Aeroga (UR+).

Self-Destruct (UR+).

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Gallery

Spell effect sprites

Doom (Grim Reaper).

Time Slip (Clock).

Level 5 Death.

Magic Hammer.

Super Famicom*(From the fantranslated version played on an emulator.)

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Aero

Aero 2

Aero 3

Aqua Rake

Big Guard

Blood Suck

Blow Fish

Dark Shock

Death Claw

Doom

Emission

Flash

Frog Song

Goblin Punch

L.2 Old

L.3 Flare

Level 5 Doom

Lil' Melody

Magic Hammer

Roulette

Time Slip

White Wind

Game Boy Advance

Moon Flute

White Wind

Mind Blast

Missile

Goblin Punch

Vampire

???

Flame Thrower

Time Slip

Level 2 Old

Level 4 Graviga

Doom

Aera

Level 3 Flare

Level 5 Death

Aeroga

1000 Needles

Aqua Breath