BLU QoL and future additions you would like

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Originally Posted by Flay_wind

I've mentioned this before, but ideally color of your BLU icon in the PF could change to the color of the role you mimic. With red as DPS by default.

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This would be such a cool change, but I suspect we will never see it. With how much the devs talk about spaghetti code, it wouldn't surprise me that if the icon is hard coded into the job, and giving a job 3 icons is something that the engine simply can't handle.

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Originally Posted by Lambdafish

This would be such a cool change, but I suspect we will never see it. With how much the devs talk about spaghetti code, it wouldn't surprise me that if the icon is hard coded into the job, and giving a job 3 icons is something that the engine simply can't handle.

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Could possibly be done by making BLU a class and having 3 "hidden" BLU jobs that mimicry swaps between.

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Originally Posted by Jandor

Could possibly be done by making BLU a class and having 3 "hidden" BLU jobs that mimicry swaps between.

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Wouldn't that change the hotbar setup though? Its a rabbithole of questions and complications I would imagine, so the devs decided to make it a buff that mimics other roles instead of making it that role outright.

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Originally Posted by Lambdafish

Wouldn't that change the hotbar setup though? Its a rabbithole of questions and complications I would imagine, so the devs decided to make it a buff that mimics other roles instead of making it that role outright.

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Probably would, although I'd personally be fine with that. Bit of a pain having to manually change my skills and bars when moving roles.

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Originally Posted by Lambdafish

Wouldn't that change the hotbar setup though? Its a rabbithole of questions and complications I would imagine, so the devs decided to make it a buff that mimics other roles instead of making it that role outright.

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I wish it would. I'm tired of having to re-do all my skills because my tank setup is different from my healer setup is different from my dps setup.

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Originally Posted by Deceptus

I wish it would. I'm tired of having to re-do all my skills because my tank setup is different from my healer setup is different from my dps setup.

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Idk if it is the ideal fix, but I dealt with this by making 2 sets of macros for each role (2 since 1 macro doesn't fit enough lines for all 24 skills). The macro places the abilities where I want them on the hotbar and removes any that don't get replaced by new ones with a different ability.. then you can just load a role-preset in the blue magic book and click the two macros for that role! Took some time to set up, but may be worth the effort if you play BLU regularly.

EDIT: Here is a picture of what I was talking about, in case anyone didn't know how to do this :]

https://i.imgur.com/iKn0TfX.png

And my own addition to the thread: If BLU can't be a full job, I would love to see it take on a "single player" role in the game. I could tolerate the job as-is if I could complete MSQ as it comes out and do trials/dungeons on my own (w/ some kind of blue mage super echo maybe? and it would be great for learning mechanics on your own w/o worrying about being bad). I love BLU as a concept but it sucks that I can't immerse myself in the story with it.