Add Blue Mages Already

[Derio]

I honestly want to know what jobs they will release in the next expansion. But most importantly what roles. They said they arent doing 3 job releases ever again so we will get 2. But at the same time they said adding in new tank and healer didnt increase their numbers as expected so we really dont know what they will add.

I do know if they add in 2 more dps, the tank and healer communities are going to be furious, myself included.

Blue mage is often seen using a mace( blunt weapon type).

Not sure on making it a tank.

The one thing I am uncertain on is how blue mage will be implemented as blue mages learn abilites from enemies which makes you wonder what abilities will they choose

[Jandor]

But at the same time they said adding in new tank and healer didnt increase their numbers as expected so we really dont know what they will add.

I do know if they add in 2 more dps, the tank and healer communities are going to be furious, myself included.

That tank/healer line really annoys me. What did they even mean by it?

So, because DRK/AST didn't increase role numbers people playing those roles just shouldn't expect new jobs?

If proportion of tank/healers didn't change then surely neither did DPS, seems that it follows on that there is 'no point adding DPS jobs' as well?

[Rongway]

But at the same time they said adding in new tank and healer didnt increase their numbers as expected so we really dont know what they will add.

We can speculate all we want as to the reasons why AST and DRK didn't have the draw that they expected, and we'll never really know for sure. But I maintain that an important part of it is that AST and DRK were too much like what we already had. Surely there are people out there who would like to heal but who don't like the glittermage archetype, who would like to wear something fiercer than dress robes and pope hats; or people who would like to tank but would like to rely on evasion, illusion, or mysticism rather than living inside a metal barrel and swinging a big sword.

This is why even if we ignored or modified the lore, we still can't have, for example, GEO (CNJ with a bell); necromancer (more dress robes, just darker); or an armored SAM variant (another armored job with a big sword).

We need something totally different from what we already have, and what we don't have yet is a a DoM tank and a DoW healer.