Nice to see this back as well ^^

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Started this back up again. Just did the first part of the Cactaur Nation quest and I backtracked to get a few more Blue Mage skills including the awful Fire Breath skill and significantly better Heaven's Cataract (damages and lowers magic and magic defense) and the Storm Cannon (Group attack that calculates damage by User's Lv*30) so at least the class now has some better crowd control options.
Brings to mind that FFX-2 has two distinct kind of magic attacks. Specifically regular Black Magic is set up so that the move's own power constant is a huge deal, with the caster's magic stat and level being comparatively less important. While almost every other type of magic skill - including Fire Breath and Heaven's Cataract - scales with level and magic stat like a strength skill would, growing in power a lot over time. So the further up you go, the more Fire Breath will just leave the Firaga spell in the dust, for instance. Bit of a shame for the Black Mage job in the midgame but they get thrown a bone when you get to Garment Grids giving access to Flare and Ultima if nothing else.

I am a little annoyed by the fact certain enemies only appear in certain chapters. Specifically yhe fact the enemy that knows Mighty Guard appears in the first two chapters (when you have no access to Confusion) but now that I have three classes with the ability, said enemy is gone until Chapter 5. It's not even like Mighty Guard is OP in this entry.
It is a hassle yeah but I'm pretty sure you can get Mighty Guard from Garik in the Gagazet mission of this chapter. Of course what confused enemies use is random and who they use it on is also random so this kind of thing tends to be a patience game more than it ever should've been. Having some kind of Manipulation ability or learning the skill simply by witnessing it (or at least having the Blue Magic list shared ) was a real good call in earlier FF games.