Blue Mages Only: Final Fantasy 5

I've decided to do a one-off video because I had some free time. This will be a blue mages only playthrough of Final Fantasy 5.

[darienb]

Blue Mages are always so weird to me due to how weird some of the spells are. Some of them are like "Deals damage equal to half your HP divided by the rotation of the planets and if it's a Tuesday or not." and then the other half is just like "Here's a nuke and a max defense buff. Have fun."

[kbowman]

Aqua breath would have one shot the Sandworm boss

[hekonaleeinos]

Ah, a fellow enlightened blue mage enjoyer.

[lordofhyphens]

IMHO the following are all Blue Mages in other mainline games:
FF6 - Strago's Lores are straight up FF5 blue magic, with the same learn mechanics
FF7 - Enemy Skill Materia is this game's version of Blue Magic
FF8 - Limited, but Quistis' limit break
FF9 - Quina is this game's blue mage, but the power is gotten through eating rather than being hit by learnable spells

[chillinon]

I’ll always be impressed how fleshed out blue magic is in FFV. Absolutely scuffed, but glorious

[bdhuffman]

Main gauche + aegis shield + elven mantle = dodge everything

[leonfurry]

“Is another Greg fight”

Me: Hildibrand? Is that you?

[tabrissousac]

"I'll stop spaming Elemental rods"
1000 Nedles Spam: Hi

[mindlessmeat]

I have watched several people play ff2 and they all had issues with the final boss. They just kept selecting optimum for equip which does duel wielding. I specifically kept shields on and had no issues at all with the boss.

[Folsomdsf]

you don't need control.. just suffer the pain of having to try and charm them with the dancing dagger...

[mindlessmeat]

I had a friend make a "blue mage" for 3.5e, unfortunately she had no idea how to balance anything...and she was obsessed with ffx-2 and combined the gun mage and berserker. It was not great.

[peacecraft]

Would you consider Final Fantasy 7 using only Enenmy Skill materia to be a blue mage run?

[linceed]

Blue Mages are prominently one of the FFXI Jobs.

[TheGreenManThom]

I did not know that the game rounds down when it comes to using dark spark. Really cool run, actually learned a lot here

[Jikkuryuu]

It's interesting how the ability to turn off encounters shifts the value of spells around. Rod-boosted Flamethrower has been my default attack pretty much as soon as I learn it, due to the cost efficiency. Contrast with 1000 Needles which is about the cost of tier 2 magic for half the damage. It's neat.
I feel bad for Death Claw. Previous versions of FF5 would cause a spell to fail if even one of its ailments targeted an immunity. So by the time the second opportunity to learn it comes around it's mostly useless. Just like my precious little inept Remora.

[BrendenBarlow]

Kimahri is a blue mage! Well blue mage, mixed with dragoon, but still.

[hannariel]

I really love this unique charm that pixel games have.

[santiagosalas]

Really strange how in ff7 enemies can do aero magic yet you cant learn it

[igneousconch]

blue mage on FF V is basically how fast can you beat the game with ur eyes closed Im not joking when I say the only bad thing about blue mage in FF V is the way some off the spells are obtained like white wind

[ScottClark]

Weird to justify using control while not justifying using rods or turning encounters off. I thought this would be a challenge run after being suggested the channel but its just like a casual do whatever run with no real rules...