Blue mage healing outside of party

[Danterius]

Does anyone know if there is any plan to allow blu to use healing spells on players outside your immediate party?

It's kind of annoying that practically every other job that can use healing abilities/spells can freely cast on whoever they want, but blu cannot.

I realise that blu spells, being tp moves originally, mobs don't generally use them to heal other mobs, but so many of them are heavily modified when blu gets them (eg: exuviation) that the point is moot.

(couldn't find anything in the forums like this, apologies if it's a repetition though~)

[Prothscar]

They don't have plans, but they should. It's a pointless limitation.

[Neisan_Quetz]

Can't balance your limitations without restrictions like these.

[Scuro]

Healing outside of Party = Not BLU, thats WHM SCH or RDM (if you even call those healing classes anymore cuz we all know its WHM or go home)

BLU has never had a non Party spell, or even an alliance party, therefore, it shouldn't be capable of healing outside of party. Not to mention its not necessary and entirely pointless. This very limitation is what assures our ability to be a frontline job rather than becoming a back lined RDM. So don't curse your blessings dammit!

[Tashan]

Not to mention its not necessary and entirely pointless. This very limitation is what assures our ability to be a frontline job rather than becoming a back lined RDM. So don't curse your blessings dammit!

This is a very good point.

[Oscar71]

Sub SCH with light arts and cure potency gear and call it a day.

[Danterius]

By that logic, dnc would get classed as a healer too.

I'm thinking for the situations where you're on the front line, alliance member starts going down, mages low on mp. You could be the one to save them, like a dnc could, but nope! sorry, you're a blu, no outside healing for you!

Blue mage was designed to be massively adaptable, depending on how you wanted to play. Having this restriction is like saying "you can do anything you like with this job!.... except that!"

[Daniel_Hatcher]

Blue mage was designed to be massively adaptable, depending on how you wanted to play. Having this restriction is like saying "you can do anything you like with this job!.... except that!"

With limitations, this is one of them.

[Kitkat]

It's annoying that it works this way, but I see it as a reasonable limitation of what we can do given our options of being adaptable to the situation. If I happen to be /rdm there is still options there for healing outside members. With the recent changes tot he cure formula I'm finding it substantial to aid outside members. Granted the bonus isn't huge due to the lower skill, but it is still noticeably more potent than it was.

We still get a well rounded array of spells to support our parties if that is the role we need to fill. White wind, Plenilune, Magic fruit ro HP restoral. Winds of Prom for erase-ga, Diamondhide, and several spells that can make having diffusion beneficial in certain situations. I would hope at some point they do something similar with our merited abilities that they have for other jobs by lowering the max cooldown and cause further merits into it to augment the ability.

[Scuro]

For starts... why the f*ck would you want to be a healer with a BLU to begin with... if thats your goal, your doing it wrong, and go play a class that actually heals properly... AKA WHM.

secondly, if your mages are running out of MP and your a BLU that is having to take over and main heal for everybody.....
1. Your mages suck, learn to conserve more MP and heal efficiently
2. Your doing it wrong, because if you have that much MP in your pool to main heal a party, get off your ass and start using that MP for DD. Because your obviously letting down your party, being an MP sync for your healers, and slowing down the DD power on killing which is why you are having to be put in that role. At the very MOST you should be throwing out an emergency cure once or twice a big fight. If your doing it more, your mages are shit. Which again, is why the limitation on our healing capabilities really isn't a big deal because we don't heal as much as other classes.