Please reconsider stance on blue mage

[Alukah]

It can work, but they would simplify it so much that people would complain that it doesn't feel like a blue mage, plus it would become the most flexible class, having all three roles in one single class.

It could work by either branching one class into three different jobs (one for each role) or one job and three stances that switches between roles, the first is most likely to happen as they wouldn't have to change the current system, for the second they would have to re-write the whole system just for Blue Mage.

How would they simplify it? Pretty much like Arcanist, pre 30 it would be a DPS, so you would only get DPS skills and maybe a base heal (no tanking skills due to balance), learning tanking, healing and advanced dps skills would come from quests rather than going out there hunting, because they have to ensure (hand-hold) that people will get all available skills so they are not excluded from any content. Role would be determined by job crystal, all skills not akin to that job crystal would be unusable.

What would we have in the end? Not a blue mage, but pretty much a carbon copy of the current classes (or an arcanist with tanking skills and without summon)

[Tsukino]

"It would be too complicated for the players and difficult to balance" seems to be becoming the XIV team's "PS2 limitations."

[Vladislav]

I Don't care how , but BLU must be added to FFXIV no matter how . I Don't care what Elitists will say about my spell set , no matter if BLU going to be solo only job. Just pls --> Give me dualwield swords & Ability to learn spells and i will be very happy again (and yes i very much <3 how BLU in XI )

[Sevokevo_Royuki]

With the way FFXIV ARR is design.. I personally can not see how BLU will be able to work... not without havinf a limit to how many BLU spells you can use at any one time.

[Nicobo]

..Just pls --> Give me dualwield swords & Ability to learn spells and i will be very happy again (and yes i very much <3 how BLU in XI )

Maybe you BLU forgot how painful to learn a skill...
in ARR possibly successfully learn a skill would be rare than an atma drop... ^^;

[NinjaTaru72]

See, to me the whole "to challenging hand holding" crap, and the "oh they'll get kicked for not doing so and so"

Is what's gonna kill the game if they don't eventually change it.

Yoshi wants to listen to the community, then just listen to them. Yeah, a few people will be elitist trashcan demand things. Good for them.

You can't coddle all the players all the time.

[Morzy]

So what you're saying is.. You want this content to be added and think caring about balance is going too far. You want Yoshi-P to go through with this despite the negative implications it could have on the community as far as balance.

I agree. I'm sick of looking at this game and seeing only fairness. It's a friendly system and I'm sure it invites more people to subscribe to this game. But it feels like we're doing LEVI EX with life jackets..

[HeroSamson]

Blue Mage could work here and actually could work helping out to old content.

1. Learning spells would be hard just like they said that is fine.
2. Swapping out spells was in FFXI but lets say you can only swap out 4 for 4 make some spells work and don't work in dungeons problem solved outside any spells can be used.
3. Rest of the Blue Mages moves are DPS depending on what they get for moves they can buff themselves or moves to benefit the party or fight monster.
4. This would give people something to do in fates if monsters from fates had ability's for people to learn and also ability's from old and new dungeons.

[Tupsi]

I love blue mage but unless they copy XI's (sorry haters) it really won't work in this game.

[Magis]

If it's going to be handicapped and crippled because of the games direction and the restrictions that the current armoury system puts on jobs... then I say they shouldn't bother.

TBH I don't see why they don't just make an "advance job" category like FFXI did. Have your base jobs that area easy to play, and then branch out to more complex jobs like what BLU, PUP, RDM could be. Then again... the DF would break unless they gave the option to queue as a certain role?