Will we see a Blue Mage job?

The title pretty much says it all. Will we ever see a blue mage class? I never played XI and while I have played every single FF (aside from the new ones), I really think the blue mage would be an extremely fun experience. I'm still fairly new, so i'm sorry if this is a recycled post. But it would be really fun to have a "Blue Mage Log" where you have to go get certain abilities from various creatures. I always loved the blue mage in FF regardless of the time it took to max them out and I personally would love to see it in this game.

Listen. The next available class is Ninja. Beyond that we DO NOT KNOW WHATS COMING. Very simple. You can speculate all you want. Clues would lead to an engineer/musketeer class but people thought that upon release and they blind sided them with a Ninja. ANYTHING AND EVERYTHING is possible. Ten years from now I bet they'll have 10 new classes, one which could possibly or not possibly be a blue mage. There is no way to know what's coming no matter how much you love a class, that has no impact on what they bring to the game.

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Originally Posted by FCrowles

Listen. The next available class is Ninja. Beyond that we DO NOT KNOW WHATS COMING. Very simple. You can speculate all you want. Clues would lead to an engineer/musketeer class but people thought that upon release and they blind sided them with a Ninja. ANYTHING AND EVERYTHING is possible. Ten years from now I bet they'll have 10 new classes, one which could possibly or not possibly be a blue mage. There is no way to know what's coming no matter how much you love a class, that has no impact on what they bring to the game.

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There's no need to be arsey mate. If that wasn't your intention, your message came across as such.

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Originally Posted by Arisill

The title pretty much says it all. Will we ever see a blue mage class? I never played XI and while I have played every single FF (aside from the new ones), I really think the blue mage would be an extremely fun experience. I'm still fairly new, so i'm sorry if this is a recycled post. But it would be really fun to have a "Blue Mage Log" where you have to go get certain abilities from various creatures. I always loved the blue mage in FF regardless of the time it took to max them out and I personally would love to see it in this game.

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I hope it is mate but we've no idea. Feel free to speculate! I, personally, am looking forward to a Dark Knight or a support based class.

Nah, I don't feel as thought he was being an ass. I just finally left the league of legends community. He's a puppy dog compared to them. :P Naw man, thanks for all the info. A Dark Knight would be amazing. But if you want a support class, a time mage would be amazing, like from FFV. DPS support. i would <3 it. :)

Bards are pretty much the current DPS Support at the moment. I would like a class that could focus on ???/Support that will utilize bar and en spells for resistances and added elemental damage for physical dps. :D

I can't say I've heard a thing about the blue mage but the idea of it sounds fun. I never played XI and I don't know a thing about whether or not they were in there. I was also kind of curious as to how a blue mage would work in an MMO. Maybe I should use Google sometime. Anyway, I'm looking forward to the new classes they'll add and even plan on trying my hand at it. The only other class that I know is confirmed is a gun-wielding class. What is it called? I haven't a clue. When will it come out? Don't know that either. I just recall Yoshi P. stating that the gun-wielding class was different than usual and not what we'd expect

*Hoping for gun blade*

I'd love to see that also. I'd like to see a job that is strictly about enhancing your parties abilities to the point that your lack of true DPS is made up for the buff that you give

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Originally Posted by BWise0713

I'd love to see that also. I'd like to see a job that is strictly about enhancing your parties abilities to the point that your lack of true DPS is made up for the buff that you give

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I think in the last live letter they clearly said they won't add a sole supporter role. So no, this won't happen anytime soon.

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Originally Posted by Cuervo78

I think in the last live letter they clearly said they won't add a sole supporter role. So no, this won't happen anytime soon.

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I believe they said they wouldn't be "Right Now" as they're happy with the Holy Trinity style but something they would implement at a later stage. I'm not quoting him word for word, just from memory.

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Originally Posted by BWise0713

I was also kind of curious as to how a blue mage would work in an MMO

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In XI, Blue Mage was a melee job which used blades and learned attacks used by enemies (physical & magical). You had a chance of learning the spell whenever you personally witnessed it, aka were struck by it. Sometimes they were quick to learn, sometimes it took what felt like a million tries.
Blue Mage could learn a massive list of spells, but had a limited number of spell slot points to allocate. Each ability used up a certain portion of your limit. Each ability also carried a stat bonus such as STR +3 or INT +2 so your stats were more flexible.
By slotting certain combos of spells, you would learn the traits of other jobs which again allowed you to customize your job.
It was an amazing job, but I\\\\\\'m not sure that version of Blue Mage would work in XIV.
As for guns, the only clue we have is that the Musketeer\\\\\\'s Guild has existed for quite some time......