Square enix US Tweet: two jobs expansion? If Blue Mage, what role?

[Celef]

Not sur BLU could work on a MMO considering they xould either give you the abilities with quests (removing the fun par of BLU) or they would be a lot of elitism around that class and in a casual friendly game.....don't see this happen.

Plus, adding 2 DPS does not seem to be a good move for duty queue :/

[Ghastly]

Sorry but Yoshida's continued comments on Blue Mage, especially yesterday during the JP Naoki's Room session, implies BLU will not be coming for Stormblood. He reiterated his old ideas of Blue Mage being a solo content type of job unable to do group content, where their gameplay would involve traveling the realm and collecting monster abilities as a "Professor of Monsters". Considering he bothered to talk about it again so close the Frankfurt fanfest heavily implies it's not going to be coming in 4.0.

Blue mage could learn different skills that look visually different but do the same thing (same potency/etc).
I would say it has to be tank.

[Empress]

Didn't BLU suck in 11? I never played it but from what I heard having friends being forced to help you grind mobs for hours on end doesn't seem appealing for this game at all.

[Ghastly]

FFXIV and XI are very different
Wasn't dark knight a dps there?

[Empress]

FFXIV and XI are very different
Wasn't dark knight a dps there?

I really can't say since I never played 11. Was just asking if anyone who played 11 had some bad experiences with the class? the only thing that I'm concerned about is how if it does get added doesn't seem like itll do well since it can be either broken or weak upon release.

[Ghastly]

Yeah I know, but FFXI has nothing to do with how good a class will be, I was stating that but I had to repeat it again.

[Vexander]

I wouldn't mind seeing Blue Mage added, but I do think I'd prefer it as a DPS. It could work as a tank, I suppose. But I still can't help but feel that Dancer and Samurai are our last two classes for Stormblood.

[AlphaFox]

I wouldn't mind seeing Blue Mage added, but I do think I'd prefer it as a DPS. It could work as a tank, I suppose. But I still can't help but feel that Dancer and Samurai are our last two classes for Stormblood.

Oh how I hope so. The tweet scares me more so cus is it really only 2 and they wern't suppose to say anything or did they delete because it's not true?

[Iromi]

Gonna go ahead and debunk the tweet...well anyway it contradicts this -

https://reddit.com/r/ffxiv/comments/...f=search_posts

Yoshida almost slipped through the amount of jobs 4.0 will have (It's related to the Moonfaire Faire)

There are three of them...so, I'd say three jobs.

[Bonkleberry]

I like the idea of Blue Mage as a tank. It never really crossed my mind until I read this thread. Spiderman=Blue Mage makes sense to me as well. I already had some ideas of Blue Mage as an off-healer to compete with SCH, since dealing damage and healing/support was always the Blue Mage niche in other Final Fantasy games. I guess we shall see. Thinking about this all more, the Aero series and Stoneskin were originally Blue Mage spells; maybe a branch off job from Conjurer?