BLU for Duty Finder and Raids! Show your support!

[Khalithar]

Sooner or later I think they’ll cave and rebalance the job and it’s abilities. My thought for blue mage was not to learn skills from mobs but just tie the abilities to the job quests and have them usensome iconic enemy attacks while making it a caster dps with some unique animations and spel effects. Maybe the unique gimmick could have been building up some sort of monster soul/blood resource. Ah well. It’s too late now.

Edit:

Also to the people that say it can’t be balanced around raid content I call BS. SE has 100% control over literally every aspect of the job and the content. They can balance things anyway they damn well please.

[Zakuno2]

I used to have an Idea for a Blue Mage that learned all it's magic from interacting with the beast tribes. I always liked the concept. But alas it is not to be.

[AppleJinx]

Hey sure thing. Just as long as it comes with the removal of cooldown on vote kicks.

[DracotheDragon]

ill say what i said in another thread but a good idea to have a win-win is to grant blue mage a PVP like bar for PVE instances , this way they can make sure what skills can be used with what strengths and balance those skills accordingly, while allowing blue mages to play other content solo.

[Belhi]

I frankly would have preferred BLU to just be a Job themed around BLU rather than what we have gotten even if that meant it wouldn't be a true BLU. I think it is probably more difficult to just convert a BLU as it has been developed into one that works in a role system than people seem to think though. This is assuming of course that it wouldn't require much resources to implement a system that force switched your abilities when in an instance.

People seem to want two jobs in one effectively. A Job that behaves like a BLU outside of instanced content and like a pseudo BLU inside instanced content. That seems a little unfair to other Jobs. Sure BRDs got their music thing but that is a rather small thing compared to an entire job system. Plus I suspect a lot of people would be very unhappy getting restricted when put in instances.


Honestly I don't really know what would be a good fix. I am pretty unconvinced by some of the suggestions I see made though. They could easily end up breaking things or pouring so much time into BLU to try and make it work that other Jobs that really need some love get short changed.

[Kogasan]

This is not what I expected when they said Blue mage was coming. If they thought it was ok to do this to blue mage why even put blue mage in the game. This feels like blue just turned into pokemon with we gotta catch them all blue spells that we won't be able to use in non preformed dungoen content and open world content. If this was their idea on blue mage why not just put in beastmaster instead of blue mage since it's more like what they are doing with blue mage. Please SE fix this. Let people play blue mage in duty finder and raids.

[Zakon]

Don't normally post on the forums. Coming here to show my support for this.

I wasn't particularly hyped for Blue Mage, but I hate what it represents. That solo content will be locked to specific, solo content only jobs. That those jobs won't be able to do anything but their unique solo only content. That they might add other jobs to this new system in the future.

I don't want the hype of every new job announcement to be blunted by the fear that it might be another limited job.

[Granyala]

"Because BLUs might not have the abilities they need and will get kicked from parties, we have kicked them from all your parties for you!"
Please don't let this stand.

Please DON'T allow BLU in random parties.
While I am sure that good players will be able to pull their weight by learning the correct abilities, 95% of all BLUs will be horribly gimped and only be baggage.
You can join dungeons and raids with a premade group of friends (I doubt you'd have much fun in ex/savage with bosses being immune to most of what you can do), so you are not "banned" from doing the content.

Just keep them out of randomly queued stuff..
Thank you.

[LeoLupinos]

I hope they keep the "solo" concept, I think it would be easier to implement much more jobs that does not fit the balanced structure. Or even add solo versions of all jobs to be a new type of content.

[Seraphor]

BLU doesn't work for party content, don't pretend that it does. What we would get is this, or a watered-down imitation of BLU, which would generate backlash regardless. This is BLU exactly as BLU should be, and putting it in a party scenario wouldn't work because it can't be balanced against other jobs. This is how the backlash looks:

Community: "We are bored of the predictable formula, give us something we have never seen before"

Devs: "Here is a brand new concept for how jobs are played, and here is BLU exactly as it is in other games"

Community: "Nooo, we never asked for that"

Pretty much this.