Build-a-Mage

[Pike]

Make your own FF mage. Pick a color and what kind of magic it does. Imagine a Purple Mage! A Yellow Mage! A Turquoise Mage! A Chartreuse Mage! An Off-White Mage?

The possibilities are nearly endless!!

[Galuf]

RAINBOW MAGE! KNOWS EVERY MAGIC AND HAS A CHOCOBO FOR EACH CULUR AND IZ INVINCEEBLE

[Jinx]

Pink Mage!

Basically a Red Mage, but can only use White Magic and debuffs, no Black Magic.

[Colonel Angus]

Brown Mage. Uses buffs & debuffs. Wields large weapons like axes, hammers, clubs, etc. Kind of like a magical breaker who has spells that can benefit his/herself.

[Night Fury]

Grey Mage!

Uses both weakened white and black magic and carries an enchanted axe which she can use to butcher people to death with.

[Formalhaut]

Grey Mage!

Uses both weakened white and black magic and carries an enchanted axe which she can use to butcher people to death with.

Wouldn't heavy use of the axe turn your grey mage into a red mage?

[Saber]

I've made my custom classes before. http://home.eyesonff.com/entry.php/6168-Final-Fantasy-New-Order-(fan-made)


However I would like to point out some old classes before I suggest my "Silver Mage"...

White Mage

These are known mostly for curing HP. It can also bring characters back from KO. Other traits such as protective and enhancement are often used. This job usually has ways to remove status alignments with Esuna, and Dispel. Their signature spell, Holy, can cause massive damage to a single target.

Black Mage

Elemental spells like Fire, Blizzard, Thunder and Water appear a lot. It is known to have several status effective magic like Poison and slow. They are great at attacking all enemies for quite some damage. They usually have the heavy hitting spells like Flare, and Meteor.

Red Mage

While they aren't the best of anything, they can be semi good at everything. They have a semi good attack, some black magic, and some white magic. While most people see this class as a blessing it's end game systems often make this class weak since they can't be better then a high level warrior, black mage, white mage.

Blue Mage

Often the high hitters of mages. They learn powerful magic from enemies. Sometimes they get really good abilities like White Wind, Mighty Guard, and even the awesome Supernova. If used right the blue mages can become the strongest jobs in the game.

Green Mage

The buff and de-buff of magic jobs. They have spells like Protect, Shell, Bravery but also have spells like Blind, Silence and Sleep.

Time Mage

Haste and Slow? Yes please. This magic user has spells that involve space and time. Stop and Gravity make this character powerful.

Summoner

Call upon magic beasts to do you bidding. Ifrit and Shiva can be easy heavy hitters in the beginning of the game. While Summons such as Odin and Bahamut are great late game summons.

If I was to make my own mage. I would have to look at what Final Fantasy has so far. It has healing, Buffing, Damaging, De-buffing, Summoning, and Other multi purpose mages.

I think I would make a mage that could nullify damage from attacks/spells or immune to negative status effects. Like Freeze HP, 0MP, and Nullify Attacks, Magic, Specials, Null Elemental, Null-KO. It would be my Silver Mage.

Silver Mage

Ruin - Low "physical" based damage
Immortality - Stops HP from depleting
Mastermind - Stops MP from depleting
Null-Magic - Magic no longer effects players.
Null-Physical - Attacks no longer damage players.
Status Guard - Immune to status effects.
Ruinra - Mid "physical" base damage
Null-Specials - enemies special attack no longer damage players.
Power-Boost - Stops positive spells from fading.
Null-KO - When you hit 0 HP you get full health
Quick - Players ATB is always full.
Ruinga - High "physical" base damage
No Thievery - prevents enemies from stealing from you.
Retrieve - throw and coin can be used without losing your stuff.
Stuck-Ill - Enemies can not recover from their status effects.
Victory Fanfare - gain the rewards but the enemies do not die. (flee with benefits)
Fixed damage - Allows players to hit for max damage.
Force - Max "physical" based damage (single).
Energy - Max "physical" based damage (all)

[Depression Moon]

Dark Sage

Equipment: Robes, Mage Hats, Daggers, Staves
Has a lot of equipment that inflicts status ailments and absorbs dark elemental attacks.


Spell
Level Learned
MP Cost
Description


Dark
Default
10
Minor dark damage to a target.


Poison
Default
12
Inflicts poison status to a target. If target is zombie, target gains HP over time.


Blind
6
12
Inflicts Blind status to target.


Silence
8
12
Inflicts Silence status to target.


Darkra
15
20
Moderate dark damage to multiple enemies.


Bio
18
20
Moderate non-elemental damage to target and inflicts Poison status.


Blindga
23
18
Inflicts Blind status to all targets.


Minion
24
0
Sacrifices 1/4 of HP to summon an AI controlled monster to assist in battle.


Silencega
30
18
Inflicts Silence status to all targets.


Drain
30
24
Absorbs HP from a target.


Venom
34
30
Inflicts Venom status to a target. If target is Zombie target gains HP and MP gradually and does not stop.


Doom
42
30
Target gets KO'd after a period of time.


Darkga
46
42
Great dark damage to multiple enemies.


Death
50
38
Instantly KOs target.


Doomsday
65
0
Sacrifices 60% of max HP to deal massive dark damage to all characters on the field.


Zombie 36 19 Inflicts target with Zombie status
Petrify 40 35 Inflicts target with Stone status

Strengths: High Magic Stat, decent Speed and Magic Defense
Weaknesses: Uses more MP than most other jobs, uses HP for certain spells, and low Defense.

[Pumpkin]

Also Pink Mage

Mix of Black and Time Mage

[Depression Moon]

Edited my above post to look more clean and gave it more detail. I forgot to put in Osmose, but it should learn it after Doom.

I think a job like this would be neat in FF. Ah, I forgot Zombie and Stone too.

Basically a Dark Sage is fragile defensively, uses a lot of resources, but is powerful for crippling enemies.

[Pike]

There are some neato ideas in this thread! I'd love to see more types of mages in FF. (GO MAGES)

[Loony BoB]

Space mage.

Does space stuff! We have a time mage already. Time & Space work together right? This person could like... teleport things. Like teleport a volcano on top of the enemy. Yeah. And then suplex it. Wait, what?

[Depression Moon]

I like actually creating shit, so here's the exclusive or beneficial equipment in detail for the Dark Sage.



Weapon

Stats

Description



Dark Staff

Mag + 3

Slightly increases dark elemental damage.



Poison Dagger

Str + 3 Ag + 1

Occasionally inflicts Poison status.



Shaman Staff

Mag + 4

Occasionally inflicts Zombie status.



Assassin's Dagger

Str + 3 Ag + 1

Occasionally inflicts KO status.



Bone Collector

Mag + 12 MP - 40




Staff of the Forbidden

Mag + 12

Increases dark elemental damage. Occasionally inflicts Doom status.







Armor

Stats

Description



Black Hood

Mag Def + 20

Halves dark elemental damage.



Black Robe

Def + 18 Mag Def + 4 Mag Eva + 5

Slightly increases elemental damage.



Cursed Linen

Def +24 Mag Def +5 Eva + 20 Mag Eva + 20

Character equipped is inflicted with Slow status.



Devil's Headdress

Def + 6 Mag Def + 19 Str + 30 Ag + 20

Character equipped is inflicted with Silence status.



Shaman's Necklace

Mag Def + 9 Mag Eva + 10

A necklace of shrunken heads. Anyone that physically attacks the bearer is inflicted with the Mini status.



Medusa Wig

Def + 2 Mag Def + 30

A wig of basilisks. Anyone that physically attacks the bearer is inflicted with the Stone status.



Shadow Robe

Mag Def + 30 Mag Eva + 11

Absorbs dark elemental damage.