Thank you for making Blue Mage unique!

[FlatArtiq]

You are making the mistake of thinking that people who want solo content only want solo content. I love group content but sometimes I want to do stuff on my own. I want to do things at my own pace, be chill, listen to music and reboot a bit before I do group content again. I also find it satisfying to do some things by myself instead of having to always rely on others to help me do things.

Sure mmos' primary goal is to provide group content and encourage people to make teams and friends, but it's not the only goal. A good dev team knows their game has several types of players and they have several types of needs.

it starts with 1 piece but they will keep asking for more . if you get a small taste of something you will always be craving for more. blue mage could have been an awesome way to expiriment with party compositions, raid fights and much more. having to see which abilities are more usefull in which fight.

as mentioned before most things on the duty finder don't require one bit of human interaction, you don't have to talk or discuss . You just have to walk the pathway and kill things in your way. this game already has solo content it's just disguised as the duty roulette

[Luluna]

I am so happy they have chose not go down the route of the generic stick to the rotations option we have now. I love the game but the jobs are so bad and boring. Every skill and spell is almost the same on each job just a different name.

The jobs like RDM while fun having hardly any spells like paralyze, refresh are so restricted. I am glad that are letting you get exp from open world monsters.

I played Puppetmaster and beastmaster in XI for times I wanted to farm and solo. I also remember some people moaning over getting BLU spells in XI but its part of the fun. I am a bit older so grinding mobs and working for something was the norm for me.

[Rhivryn]

I think people are blowing it out of proportion. Balance for Blue Mage would be a nightmare, something like this would never make it in another modern MMO: too fun and unique. But they added it, true to what the Blue Mage is, and hey had to make certain limitations so it wouldn't break the game. The level cap is probably so they can see how much it breaks the game at a level that wouldn't terribly matter, so they can see how to proceed to bring it up to level cap. I think it's more than reasonable an impressed they actually did what they've done.

I think the best way to get it in a state to use the Duty Finder would be to make it choose a role (blu mage tank would be interesting if possible...) and to unlock the option to queue as a certain role it should have certain skills unlocked. You need the full suite of tank/healer/dps skills acquired to queue for that role. So it doesn't go into content it can;t do as well as another job of that role. Also, I'd imagine certain broken or strange skills wouldn't be usable in Duty Finder, and the skill should say if it is one of those. I'm excited to play Blue Mage.

[Lusavari]

You are making the mistake of thinking that people who want solo content only want solo content. I love group content but sometimes I want to do stuff on my own. I want to do things at my own pace, be chill, listen to music and reboot a bit before I do group content again. I also find it satisfying to do some things by myself instead of having to always rely on others to help me do things.

Sure mmos' primary goal is to provide group content and encourage people to make teams and friends, but it's not the only goal. A good dev team knows their game has several types of players and they have several types of needs.

To build on your argument, sometimes you want to do something alone, but you want other people you know available to talk with while you do stuff. I mean... My FC has been dead forever, but I find social stuff in the Novice Network and Eureka. I can do this on my own time when I don't have static night stuff. BLU solo content is the same deal. It's something to do when I'm not playing with others. I'm playing a game, and talking to people. Playing solo doesn't defeat the point of an MMO. Crafting and Gathering is also solo content. But people who do it aren't hermits.

I feel people are seeing this as something new, and freaking out. When more limited jobs get added, people will worry less. Plus they need to announce some normal jobs to mitigate the issues. An alternative might also be adding some content BLU can participate in. Some people might hate Eureka, but others of us like it due to the more social nature of things like The NM Train, and the active shout chat.

[Oreos]

I absolutely love the unique leveling and skill acquisition aspect to Blue Mage. The thrill when you learn that spell after what feels like your 50th kill is pretty great.

But I want to use those skills I worked so hard for in group raid content. Allow me to gather all the crazy spells I want and use them however I see fit while on my own. And then establish certain skills and alterations to those skills that will be required for me to play with a group.

We can meet in the middle, here. It doesn't have to be one or the other.

[PatronasCharm]

I am super excited for the way Blue Mage is implemented, heck, it's a masterstroke for players like me, that's very casual, doesn't want to do Raid stuff, and just ever play a single job. [It will keep me subscribed longer... and perhaps when it drops it'll keep me subbed up until the new expansion, winning even more subscription money from me!]

The way it's designed is reminiscent of Blue Mage in FFXI, and I can imagine me and my buddy just going out and hunting for Blue Spells!

I am just curious to see if it'll have a Rotation / or a gauge.

Maybe they'll add Unbridled Knowledge gauge where Primal / Extreme Abilities are only accessible via the gauge being full.

Super psyched, am ready to play BLU, sad it's still a bit further out.

And the good news, imagine that this expansion adds 4 jobs, 2 "Limited" Beastmaster / Puppetmaster and 2 actual jobs like Dancer / Rune Fencer (Which I believe is that supposed DRK on the screen) and Gunblade class.

[diruulth]

turning a job into a sightseeing log isn’t a good idea, please delete this thread

[Evogolist]

I see this as the devs way of exploring new play styles and seeing what works. It's just like what they said during the live letter, depending on how well received BLU is, it just may open the door for other classes from the FF series to be added later on down the road. While I do understand that vocal minority that are upset about the restrictions put on BLU, as a career BLU in XI, I can definitely identify with what Yoshi-P was saying in in the first example as I and maybe many other Blu's have experienced just that, being kicked from a party for not having certain spells, being asked and harassed to have certain spells set, and the list goes on.

However, his example/excuse also has a negative side to it as well. It shows that the team lacks trust in the community and is holding our hands a bit too much, hence why the game is in the state that it's in now. As for the issues with certain spells being used in dungeons and raid content, it's nothing that simple balancing can't fix. Level 5 death should never be usable against dungeon and raid bosses. Debuffs such as that and actions that can one-shot bosses, should be set to where the boss is either immune to them or only take a fraction of the damage that they received. As they slowly raise the lvl cap for BLU, I'll for the time being look at BLU as being in maintenance mode since technically it is a work in progress and hopefully by the time the cap for BLU has reached 80, they've changed their stance on it being allowed into raids and duty finder content.

One thing I did leave out was how BLU will be utilizing the elements in order to best defeat an enemy. It makes me wonder if we'll see classes such as BLM, RDM, WHM, and SMN return to being the true elemental users that they're known for in FF games. It also opens up the possibility of bringing life back to the open world. Seeing the reaction that FFXI is currently getting and the addition of Trusts come 5.0, maybe BLU's won't be going at it alone in the open world, grinding off of random mobs.

[Evogolist]

turning a job into a sightseeing log isn’t a good idea, please delete this thread

Then you fail to understand what BLU is. Blue Mage/Yellow Mage/Mimic class has in almost all of it's incarnations, has been about traveling the world and defeating mobs to learn their attacks. To have it any other way would be a disgrace to said class/job/skill. Don't get me wrong, the restrictions aren't good, but they aren't bad either. With the amount of people that either come on these forums complaining about someone not playing a class right, being kicked from a party because they were told to play a class better, or that said class/job wasn't balanced/implemented right...can you really blame them for taking precautions with such an experimental class, because that's what BLU is. Or, would you rather have the mess that is SMN/SCH where they still don't know what to do or how to balance it?

[Valor_C]

turning a job into a sightseeing log isn’t a good idea, please delete this thread

This comment is so... iiirgh, and should be deleted... just accept that there are people who are looking forward to it, just because you find it stupid and lame, what you have written often enough in other threads does not mean that others should not look forward to it.