Add Blue Mages Already

[RuleofThree]

I mean, if it happens, it happens. And people will be like 'omgbluemagewtfsoawesomeIcan'twait' no matter how shit it ends up being. L'il 'ole me can't stop it...

I guess the worse of it all wouldn't be a new anthropomorphic race, or new jobs...I can tolerate that...but I don't know if I can deal with another 10 levels to cap.

[Dualgunner]

To throw a bit of optimism your way, Three, remember everyone saying RDM would be an impossible job to implement with the trinity; the job then became something that in general was very well received.

[Bright-Flower]

To throw a bit of optimism your way, Three, remember everyone saying RDM would be an impossible job to implement with the trinity; the job then became something that in general was very well received.

Yeah RDM ended up about as good as you could hope for in a hard trinity game. It helps that in FF XIV white magic already included stone/aero spells.

And a lot of jobs go through changes. BLM gave fire, ice and thunder spells different purposes in the rotation instead of them being basically the same spell but with a different element. Summoner became a pet job. DRK reworked into a tank instead of sacrificing HP to deal damage. There's no reason BLU can't be tweaked to fit into FFXIV, and the monster angle can simply be baked into the lore/quests of the class.

That said I wouldn't necessarily expect BLU to be a tank job. I wouldn't expect a fourth casting dps anytime soon either but a blue mage wearing typical heavy armor tank gear would feel a bit odd to me. Then again FF doesn't have a lot of traditional 'tank' jobs anyway.

[DRKoftheAzure]

No I don't want Blue Mage as a tank, and this thread needs to die.

[Seraphor]

No I don't want Blue Mage as a tank, and this thread needs to die.

Yeah, people shouldn't discuss things you don't like.

[Mnemosynia]

I disagree.
We should get the class Gauis plays.
Those folks with the gunblades are glorious.

I'm quite certain most people don't even know what a blue mage is on these threads.
I'm pretty sure most folks didnt play the blue mages in regular FF games.

Like Kimahri ffx
Like Quistis fviii

and more i can't remember blue mages suck and always had people are just jumping on bandwagons dont drop bluemages fix DRKS reduce WAR mitigation by alot increase its dps decrease paladin dps increase there mitigation and just return the old DRK skills with the gunblade class and you fine square.

[Jonnycbad]

If the leaks are true, Blue Mage will be a support DPS. If that's the case, it may very well be a Scouting DPS like Ninja. If implemented as such, they'd make BLU a DEX melee DPS with lowish personal DPS but high raid utility.

It seems that each DPS archetype (as evident by gear) share some similarities.

Striking: High personal DPS, low raid utility.
Maiming: Moderate personal DPS, moderate raid utility.
Scouting: Low personal DPS, high raid utility.

They can easily make Blue Magic based on DEX similar to how Ninjutsu is based on DEX (and PLD magic based on STR).

[Hierro]

I'm quite certain most people don't even know what a blue mage is on these threads.
I'm pretty sure most folks didnt play the blue mages in regular FF games.

Buddy, I played blue mages in FFTA and FFV, and they're the one job I like not because of lore or aesthetics or something superficial, but because of their top-tier gameplay. That's when you know you found something special and dear and you think to yourself "This is something different."

People are hyped for blue mages because BLU ROCKS! You can go cry about it elsewhere.

[Jkap_Goat]

Well congratulations OP, you got your wish

[Dualgunner]

OP is still alive...right? No planes crashing on him?

You got a while yet to go buddy but there's light at the end of the tunnel!