White Mage

That's interesting that those are the four they picked then because it does feel like there are certain concepts that are missing.

Like it's very odd to do Black Mage but no White Mage.

But, hmm.

Yeah, I didn't catch that part in the panel.

And they don't have outfits

So it's like White Mage, Black Mage, [laughs]

It is

... basically.

Ravager is Black Mage.

[laughs]

Medic is White Mage.

Commando is Knight.

It's a little like Persona's system, where in Persona, if you... hit an enemy with a super effective attack effectively they go down for a little bit if you hit every single enemy with that you get what's called an all-out attack where the entire party comes through and does loads of damage um so it's not exactly the same as that but it has kind of elements of that idea to it um which is cool and i think early on it's quite easy to get your head around and quite fun to engage with and it's pretty quick as well you have the traditional speed up stuff you can press the speed up button to kind of like wreck your way through battles pretty pretty rapidly um and then they start introducing what are called visions and these are old Final Fantasy characters that basically become equipped to your character.

So you start off and you basically get the White Mage and the Black Mage from the original Final Fantasy.

And you can equip those characters to your main party members, and they then gain the abilities of those characters.

So I gave the White Mage to Rain.

So his regular attack is like, he just does a normal attack, and then he has a couple of skills.

One of them is... using a fire spell one of them is like doing a kind of tackle attack that does a lot of stagger damage but when i put the white mage on him he now has access to a heal and he now has access to a couple of buffing moves basically and you can swap these vision characters between anyone so if i wanted to give a heal to someone else in my party i could swap it over to the other person and then they would now have access to heals basically um they do say in the game that it's better to pair um a similar type of character with that same character because they get benefits for doing so so like i just got the third character who is a medic and so it's better for me to put the white mage on the medic because they are kind of synergized with each other essentially they both have the same kind of class role so they'll get more benefits for doing it But these vision characters almost act like espers in Final Fantasy 6 where...

Oh, sorry, not espers.

More like materia in 7 where the materia itself is the thing that levels up and you can move that between people.

Tank gives you Paladin, Warrior, and Dark Knight.

Healer gives you White Mage, Scholar, and Astrologian.

DPS, you've got three separate subcategories.

Your melee is Monk, Dragoon, and Ninja.

Right.

Well, so this is the this is the one kind of weird.

This is the weird lore part to letting random Joe Schmoes be like the thing about a lot of the jobs in 14 is that they are unique in the sense that like so the obvious example is white mage.

So technically white mages in the setting of 14 can only be Pajalis, which are a very specific species of people and no one else can be white mages.

So I was curious, which job slash jobs do all currently find it really hard to connect with? Perhaps it's not your preferred play style, doesn't synergize well with other jobs, or maybe it's just plain boring.

With Evolved Mode coming in 8.0, do you think it will incentivize you to give those jobs a go again? Or do you feel, regardless, it's just never going to connect for you? As a Dragoon main and White Mage and Paladin as secondaries, I'm especially eager to see how they change the base around Reborn classes as we've been with them for so long.

Anyway, eager to hear your response.

And as always, thank you for your ongoing discussions, laughs, and speculating.

I've actually had to do that.

The white mage was absolutely an idiot.

But yeah, I've done it.

I'm excited to talk about your blue mage journey when we get into all this, because I think you're a much higher level than I am.

Right.

Yeah.

That was at the beginning where I just said that we had a horrible white mage.

So I pivoted.

Hmm.

People say that White Mage is, though, but I guess it's more healing than-

White Mage is the pure healer-

Yeah

...

That was crazy.

That was crazy.

There's also something to be said, I guess, of, um, um, a White Mage stance dancing, which was a-

Oh.

If one of your player, if one of your characters died, you either had to have the Life spell with a white mage, assuming you had a white mage, or every town had a special building in it that was either, like, a church or a shrine with, like, a dude sitting inside, and if you go up to him and one of your people are dead, um, they revived them, I think for a fee too.

It wasn't just like, "Hey, yeah, they're, they're back alive." Um, 'cause going to an inn wouldn't revive dead people.

Neither, neither did tents.

Um, so like, like that shit back in, like, 1987 would've been brutal in a game like this.

Um, the Pixel Remaster kind of like made that a little bit easier in a lot of way.

Um, though I've, I, I think I only used a Phoenix Down, like, once 'cause by the time I was having, like, actual trouble with fights, um, the white mage I had did have, um, Life.

So, like, I was always able to just resurrect, like, myself and then heal up.