BLU Update, Please

A while back Yoshi-P mentioned that they would look at BLU if there was enough community request for it.

It's been a while with no BLU update, and in a search for BLU on this.... "very broad" forum search bar didn't turn anything up so... here's my request for a BLU update.


Sorry if this doesn't really fit into "DPS Jobs" but idk where else to put it since "other battle systems" seems to be completely separate from jobs altogether.

I would love for the next Blue Mage update to discontinue its limited status and for it to be upgraded to a full job.

I'm only looking for a level bump and new spells. I don't even care if they give it more carnivale or whatever. BLU is my favorite content in the game, exactly as it is. Makes anything that requires syncing much, much faster and beyond more fun.

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Originally Posted by aveyond-dreams

I would love for the next Blue Mage update to discontinue its limited status and for it to be upgraded to a full job.

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I hope the opposite of this. I would rather a brand new caster, not a reworking of the current BLU.

I'd like a BLU update myself. As it's my favorite class in the game. I hope they just bump us to 90 but we will probably be stuck in Shadowbringers in probably patch 6.55 or some nonsense.

Still got a full set of Cryptlurker caster gear collecting dust.

Probably won't see 90 until 7.x by design lol, I'll settle for being one expansion behind instead of 2. 90 would be nice but SE definitely doesn't want us cheesing current content with it, and even if they went through the trouble to exclude it from every instance then there would be no point being 90

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Originally Posted by aveyond-dreams

I would love for the next Blue Mage update to discontinue its limited status and for it to be upgraded to a full job.

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No thanks. BLU is fun because it's OP and busted, which wouldn't be the case if it had to be balanced with all the other jobs.

What I'd love to see with the next update is that Blue Mage Battle Royale PvP mode they mentioned a while back.

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Originally Posted by CidHeiral

No thanks. BLU is fun because it's OP and busted, which wouldn't be the case if it had to be balanced with all the other jobs.

What I'd love to see with the next update is that Blue Mage Battle Royale PvP mode they mentioned a while back.

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You don't lose anything from a non-limited version of Blue Mage being made available for people to run regular battle content with. I hope that we both get that and the pvp mode.

Gonna repost because I can in a proper BLU thread.

They should take notes from Xenoblade 3's Soulhacker which is Blue Mage in all but name and not just give us spells but traits/passives and clear content or use this spell this many times to upgrade the spell or passive into a more powerful skill/trait.

As well as add new spells/traits onto the existing A rank and S rank hunt monsters and make it worth delving into doing Extreme trials.

And I do think it's time they let Blue Mages enter Deep Dungeons, Eureka(which is full of unique monsters that you defeat on each map), Bozja/Zadnor content for potentially more new acquisitions then gating them out of it. It is peculiar to me that the BiS gear for Blue Mage is in Eureka but Blue Mage itself can't earn it on their own you have to be a different class.

The notion of a limited job is such a dumpster bin idea that shouldn't even exist. If you want a proper Blue Mage then you have it start out from nothing until it becomes this overpowered contender that you may as well be a walking raid boss in the overworld.

Blue Mage is so one and done after you clear each Carnivale fight and it's pretty sad.

Given the lack of news on their plans for Blue Mage I hope we jump from 70 to 90 but I think if we get anything at all it will be up to 80 and we will always be one xpac behind. Ergo dead content.

The fun of Blue Mage in every FF it appears in is to defeat monsters and take their powers and make them your own They've made BLU very limited and half the spells achieve the same thing with similar effects and potencies it feels like they don't have a lot of creativity happening with creating new spells.

The best use of BLU is helping players farm FATEs quickly and doing some baller low level dungeon runs for Moogle tomes.

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Originally Posted by MagiusNecros

The best use of BLU is helping players farm FATEs quickly and doing some baller low level dungeon runs for Moogle tomes.

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Damn right it is, and the alternative is an absolute chore. Don't forget these things are also done for relic weapons, and in huuuuuge quantities.

blu will never be a real boy/girl.

Blue mage is the only remaining fun caster, and as such I would like to see a level cap increase. For the new spells it would be nice to see more weird/niche things rather than just another 220 potency with fall off. Maybe a spell with fall up, that does 40% on the first target and 100% on the splash, could be fun in dungeons if things are unfreezeable/undeathable. Saintly beam was also a fun addition, but it’d be nice to see more relevant undead enemies to get a bit more use for it. I’d be interested if something dark flavour that gets bonus damage against sin eaters would be worth adding, it would make sense and be good for the blu80 content and amdapor city hard too maybe. The issue with new spells is the potency creep in the morbol fights.

I believe they mentioned, just before EW launch, that they couldnt get to Blu development this time around because of various delays and such. So likely Blu content will drop mid to late within the expansion now that they more or less caught up with their usual development schedule...

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Originally Posted by aveyond-dreams

I would love for the next Blue Mage update to discontinue its limited status and for it to be upgraded to a full job.

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My eternal, endless support for this. Have a static load-out of 24 balanced spells per 10 levels that you must earn to toggle queuing with random parties and leave the rest as-is. So tired of seeing (excluding limited jobs) on every single thing in the game. Blue Mage didn't deserve to be a forgettable meme job. Don't make Quistis cry.

At least have Grand Delta as a limit break.

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Originally Posted by Hanayumi

I believe they mentioned, just before EW launch, that they couldnt get to Blu development this time around because of various delays and such. So likely Blu content will drop mid to late within the expansion now that they more or less caught up with their usual development schedule...

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I don't remember seeing that, but I'm not complaining anyway. I just think it's time. With Island Sanctuary out, there should be room in the side content development area for BLU now.

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Originally Posted by RavenNoire

A while back Yoshi-P mentioned that they would look at BLU if there was enough community request for it.

It's been a while with no BLU update, and in a search for BLU on this.... "very broad" forum search bar didn't turn anything up so... here's my request for a BLU update.


Sorry if this doesn't really fit into "DPS Jobs" but idk where else to put it since "other battle systems" seems to be completely separate from jobs altogether.

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It's coming, we just don't know which patch yet... I'm inclined to think 6.4, because last BLU update was also that late, but it would be a pleasant surprise to have it o 6.3.

Also remember that they have BLU on the weapon design contest. I doubt they would do so if they didn't plan further updates to the job, and I bet we'll get those weapons on the next update.

6.45 will probably be the next update. That's when they did the last cap raise.

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Originally Posted by Deveryn

6.45 will probably be the next update. That's when they did the last cap raise.

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I wish they would change it to .15 to be honest... It would be great to have it earlier on an expansion cycle, especially because we usually don't have a lot going on until halfway through the expansion.

I hope we get more Masked Carnivale, that was some of the more fun content in the entire game.

Update BLU.
Make him do PotD/HoH. (With deactivated solo achievement)
Make him do Ultimates (with deactivated reward's and "clear" status) no matter if he is able to clear them or not.
Eureka/Bozja (with limited use of area specific action's) probably not needed for Eureka/BA but BLU flare star would be to strong.

These are easy to implement things and would give BLU so much more content.
Maybe add hidden achievements for the case that a full Blu group somehow kills a ultimate.

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Originally Posted by Curisu

Update BLU.
Make him do PotD/HoH. (With deactivated solo achievement)
Make him do Ultimates (with deactivated reward's and "clear" status) no matter if he is able to clear them or not.
Eureka/Bozja (with limited use of area specific action's) probably not needed for Eureka/BA but BLU flare star would be to strong.

These are easy to implement things and would give BLU so much more content.
Maybe add hidden achievements for the case that a full Blu group somehow kills a ultimate.

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Disabling achievements is fine with me, although it would also be cool to get BLU-specific achievements for those things (as they are still an accomplishment, albeit on a different difficulty curve).

I don't think disabling area actions for eureka/bozja is necessary. Flare star might be strong if BLU could boost it, but BLU doesn't have the mp economy of BLM so they wouldn't be able to spam it, making it still less effective than on a BLM. Not having the other actions/effects in bozja/DR would really make BLU complete trash since most of the dps in it comes from lost actions.