How Blue Mage Could Exist in FFXIV

[Mapleine]

The big problem with BLU in FFXIV is that the game just doesn't support the huge number of abilities a BLU would be expected to learn. Even if every ability is learned from a monster, it would pale in comparison to the total from FFXI (which everyone seems to use as the gospel of blue mages). More succinctly, given the way things have been going, blue mages would gain abilities from a whopping five (5) monsters per expansion, at maximum.

Don't base it on XI, base it on a modernized V.

Blue Mage would have the luxury of being made in a 5.0 climate which Summoner, which was rushed into a WoW Warlock-styled joke for launch, will never have.

V is the gospel of the job system, not XI, which is an EQ-styled game that can't relate to anything these days.

I'm more concerned on what classic job will be co-opted into a tank no one wants to play, next. I'm so sick of the tank conundrum in MMOs I could puke.

[ADVSS]

Don't base it on XI, base it on a modernized V.

Blue Mage would have the luxury of being made in a 5.0 climate which Summoner, which was rushed into a WoW Warlock-styled joke for launch, will never have.

V is the gospel of the job system, not XI, which is an EQ-styled game that can't relate to anything these days.

I'm more concerned on what classic job will be co-opted into a tank no one wants to play, next. I'm so sick of the tank conundrum in MMOs I could puke.

I wouldnt mind, as long as they figure out what they want tanks to do, seems like they slipped up yet again this go around. Maybe by 6.0 ...

[Kazrah]

I wouldnt mind, as long as they figure out what they want tanks to do, seems like they slipped up yet again this go around. Maybe by 6.0 ...

5.0 will likely bring the next new tank. Likely not because of the "we need more tanks" argument, but rather because of the current lack of variety of both tanks and healers compared to melee and ranged dps. After two years, hopefully they'll figure it out.

I do agree though that FFXI isn't a good model to follow not just for BLU, but for any future job. RDM and SAM I think showed that you don't need to follow FFXI to have good, playable jobs.