Everything to know about 4.0 from the Fan Fest

[AzraelX]

During the summer event with the rangers Yoshi teased that the event gave a clue about the number of jobs we'd be getting. That alone is confirmation that we are getting some, and a pretty obvious hint at there being three of them. People went on to speculate what the jobs were based on their colours but that's a different topic.

OH YEA I forgot about that hmmmmmmm, REd- red mage, not sure what yellow and black will be - SAM is black - idk.

I would like Blue mage, but Yoshi has said that Blue mage wouldn't fit the game and would like Blue mage to be some type of game mode/ activity.

[Balipu]

OH YEA I forgot about that hmmmmmmm, REd- red mage, not sure what yellow and black will be - SAM is black - idk.

I would like Blue mage, but Yoshi has said that Blue mage wouldn't fit the game and would like Blue mage to be some type of game mode/ activity.

When exactly did he say that? That sounds like an alternate progression system by the way.

[AzraelX]

When exactly did he say that? That sounds like an alternate progression system by the way.

Q: I love the blue mage job that appears in the FINAL FANTASY series. Will the blue mage job ever be implemented in FFXIV?

A: I think that blue mage is an interesting job because you can learn spells from enemies, but honestly I don't think that it really fits MMORPG party settings. If anything, I think it would work solo and it would be really fun to implement it as a job where you go around and learn abilities from every monster, so I'd definitely like to try and do this, but I'm concerned when it comes to playing in a party players would put up barriers if you haven't learned certain abilities. Additionally, in the event you are able to use abilities forever once you learn them, the difficulty of learning abilities would be high, and we wouldn't be able to balance the system so it wouldn't revolve around procuring your abilities instead of equipment. This wouldn't be practical enough to fit in an MMORPG party setting and conversely if you are swapping in only certain abilities you've learned, the true image of a blue mage would diminish, so this is something that I am concerned with. -Letter LIVE XVII; 08/23/2014