Additional Blue Magic Spells via Unlocking Monstrosity Abilities?

[RichLester]

I was thinking that BLU hasn't had any new spells added to it's arsenal for a good while now but I have been doing some monstrosity recently & thought, there's an opportunity here. Why not if you have levelled BLU to 99, you can then be granted access to additional spells that are monster abilities from Monstrosity. All the learnable spells already available which are monster abilities are excluded, of course. I thought this would give something to do for BLUs & adding monstrosity spells could be useful. May need to have some new species in Monstrosity if not available, eg. is Corse available? Silence Seal can be way more powerful & accurate than Chaotic Eye. Some abilities that do 200% damage can be powerful at BLU master 20ish.

Your thoughts?

[Alhanelem]

Monstrosity will never be updated. All devopment on it ceased when the guy in charge of that project left Square Enix.

[Gwydion]

Monstrosity will never be updated. All devopment on it ceased when the guy in charge of that project left Square Enix.

I didn't know this was the back story but jeez. This make me think that Matsui left or retired in protest of CBU3's decision to fund FFXI with developers.

[Alhanelem]

There is a pretty long list of features for it that were never implemented, even as the content proved popular for a time- there was to be a system for monipulator parties, quests and activites, and more obviously, all of the major monster families being represented (note all the grayed out selections on the change monster menu). Not to mention extending the list of playable areas.

[Beastorizer]

"One guy who was working on it left" is a lazy excuse, because that is not what I was told.... personally......

https://forum.square-enix.com/ffxi/threads/56550

MON is already a system which is implemented. Just like XI is already a game which many people left, it can be improved upon (Or devolved.....). There is literally stuff they can add to MON by Spring if they wanted. Finish the species, add a way to earn valuable currency through them......(ROE).

XIV nearly killed SE, then Avengers kind of put gas on the fire. Thus, they are tight with money imo. It is not like fans are asking for a brand new 2024 mmo.

As for BLU, I can see BLU getting some more spells. A correlation between it and MON would be pretty neat though.

[RichLester]

Aww, shame. Oh well. Worth a shot

[Alhanelem]

MON is already a system which is implemented. Just like XI is already a game which many people left, it can be improved upon

"can" and "will" are different things. Yes, they *could* update it, but that would require them to borrow an engineer from CBU3 and they would have to spend time studying the systems before being able to modify them. I don't want to stop anyone from asking, because I would like this to happen too. I'm just saying it won't happen. We're only occasionally going to get any new content at all, so I have extreme doubt they will consider updating a system that only has like 30% of the content that was originally planned.

BLU getting new spells could happen, and I'd argue it's more likely; but there's a caveat there too, they've said in the past that they are reaching technical limits on the size of the spell list, so old systems would likely need too be revised to increase those limits.

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