Blue mage at patch 4.5

[Arrius]

"Taking inspiration from previous FINAL FANTASY titles, the blue mage job will provide a unique solo gameplay experience in which players will learn monster actions and advance through blue mage-specific content."

Source.

Which means you get those abilities in duties, instead of randomly gobbling on mobs in the open world.

That is a good choice, really. Imagine the crowd looking for specific mobs. Pure chaos.

[Fredco191]

Man, I thought you were messing with me. I guess not.

[Sandpark]

"Taking inspiration from previous FINAL FANTASY titles, the blue mage job will provide a unique solo gameplay experience in which players will learn monster actions and advance through blue mage-specific content."

"Blue mage will be available to all players that own A Realm Reborn, have reached level 50 as a Disciple of War or Magic, and have completed the 2.0 main scenario."

Source.

This is what I expected, expect beastmaster to be introduced like this if that job makes the cut eventually.
On that note I don't like the look of blue mage. Look's like a 1970-80's hero that Bruce Lee played called Kato. I would rather have the middle eastern vibe with scimitars as in FFXI.

[Fawkes]

I'm more interested what they mean by "limited job" it worries me a little.

I assume it means you can't join normal duties. If all the actions need to be learned, then they would need to gate Blue Mages from entering any duties without abilities.

Maybe the blue mage specific instances will require you to have learned most/all of the abilities, and once you complete them it will be usable as a full fledged job.

[kikix12]

"Blue mage will be available to all players that own A Realm Reborn, have reached level 50 as a Disciple of War or Magic, and have completed the 2.0 main scenario."

A damn waste of potential again...If it's going to start from a lower level and be capped at lvl50, it should start at lvl1 and at that point it should be available to new players. Having a requirement of lvl50 class and finishing the A Realm Reborn main story quest makes it useless to new players again.

Unless it will NEVER be available for party instances...at which point it's a missed opportunity for another reason altogether. I'd prefer a less problematic mechanically Blue Mage that can be used in normal content than a special job that does not allow for any kind of progress for the character it's used on...Well, it's still better than some of the other ideas and may be fun to play at least. It also shows they may actually experiment with stuff like that. So that's positive.

[Ilenya]

This is what I expected, expect beastmaster to be introduced like this if that job makes the cut eventually.
On that note I don't like the look of blue mage. Look's like a 1970-80's hero that Bruce Lee played called Kato. I would rather have the middle eastern vibe with scimitars as in FFXI.

To be fair, it's based off the original Blue Mages from FFV. Or at least I think they were the first FF Blue Mages.

[Elleia]

"Taking inspiration from previous FINAL FANTASY titles, the blue mage job will provide a unique solo gameplay experience in which players will learn monster actions and advance through blue mage-specific content."

"Blue mage will be available to all players that own A Realm Reborn, have reached level 50 as a Disciple of War or Magic, and have completed the 2.0 main scenario."

Source.

Yeah, I have a sinking feeling BLU is going to essentially be "side content" and won't be able to be used in any group situations. I can't imagine they'd call it a limited job if it wasn't it's own thing. If it was just going to be a normal job that's capped at 50 for now, they probably would have said that - but calling it a limited job makes me think it's a completely new system.

[lulunami]

This is what I expected, expect beastmaster to be introduced like this if that job makes the cut eventually.
On that note I don't like the look of blue mage. Look's like a 1970-80's hero that Bruce Lee played called Kato. I would rather have the middle eastern vibe with scimitars as in FFXI.

They wanted BLU to look more like FFV Blue Mage.

[Soge01]

*Scratches at the wall of FFXIV like an excited cat*

Is this already available? Wait, when is 4.5 anyway? I have a great NEED for this!

Also, can't wait to play as a Warrior of Darkness in 5.0. My Dark Knight and Black Mage will be pleased~ Muwahahahaha!!! XD

[Edax]

Yeah this would've been murder to balance or even just support if released alongside the expansion. I'm guessing this is basically a glorified beta stage for BLU. Kind of smart of them

It's certainly a shakeup of the predictable patch patterns.