Blue Mage: Are you kidding me!?

[Kitfox]

I guess darkpaw but i am looking forward to playing Blu but i hold we do gert to join duty finder after thy raise lvl cap and i hope its lvl cap 80 whn thy raise lvl but i have a feeling it will be 60 or 70

As long as they're holding on to the whole "BLU must have broken abilities" thing, they will never allow BLU in highest level content. And that's exactly why it's bad idea.

[Mithia]

As long as they're holding on to the whole "BLU must have broken abilities" thing, they will never allow BLU in highest level content. And that's exactly why it's bad idea.

Bad idea's are subjective, what is bad in some their mind is a great idea in others. There are plenty of traditional combat classes, lets try to have one limited job and see where it goes.

[Neela]

Can somebody explain to me what all that fuss about BLU is?
The last FF I played was 3 and I was young back then, so I don’t really know what the class is all about or what it does.

Blu mage is a caster job who learns his skills by mobs - tho in every game he provides multiple atk, def, heal & support skills which makes him the most flexible cls - useful on every role without any backdraws. Using this system would break cls balance - in SEs opinion, therefor they created the new "limited jobs"* which are locked out of specific matchmaking- or end-content.

Actually all Blu Mage threads are just about the rage of people who don't like these restrictions cause they want to take it to eureka, pdt/hoh, primal farm, ally raids or savage - no reason to get fussy ;3

*I personally like the idea of limited jobs which get their own system and rules like more open world ep or personal challenges. I can imagine that other cls like Beastmaster/tamer (solo pet gather focused f.e), Onion Knights or Mimes... simply for all the cls FF provides and they think they can't balance along our main jobs/cls. Its better than keeping them out at all Imo - and content you can do all by yourself if your bored by dailys or progress/savage is never wrong...

[Starcake28]

Ya let the true warrior run free the the lesser job knee lol no really blue mage is just fun there is no job in FF tht can match blue mage and as for all this bs abt SE system it need to be break not saying make blue mage op saying let the players run free let us be able to solo anything if we have our builds or jobs set up right i hate this ideal of if your tank die or healer die when mob at 30% health There's a 45% This is going to be a wipe even if your a elite player you Can't stay alive because thy hve it set for you to die if tht happen unlike FF11 you have a 50 % chance to solo this mob if your character build right Tht's the system thy need to bring back remove the echo helper there is always ways to balance a game out so blue don't be op or w.e Your so afraid of i'll say it again look at FF 11 thy fix it you can too you bring FF 11 from 1.0 to this game wat we have today so i know they can get blue mage or any class in to this game without breaking anything

[Darkpaw]

Ya let the true warrior run free the the lesser job knee lol no really blue mage is just fun there is no job in FF tht can match blue mage and as for all this bs abt SE system it need to be break not saying make blue mage op saying let the players run free let us be able to solo anything if we have our builds or jobs set up right i hate this ideal of if your tank die or healer die when mob at 30% health There's a 45% This is going to be a wipe even if your a elite player you Can't stay alive because thy hve it set for you to die if tht happen unlike FF11 you have a 50 % chance to solo this mob if your character build right Tht's the system thy need to bring back remove the echo helper there is always ways to balance a game out so blue don't be op or w.e Your so afraid of i'll say it again look at FF 11 thy fix it you can too you bring FF 11 from 1.0 to this game wat we have today so i know they can get blue mage or any class in to this game without breaking anything

I’m not even sure where to start with this. Heck I’m not even sure there’s a valid point in this post. Final Fantasy 14 is not and will never be FF11. What you are saying here is you want the dev team to rip apart the core battle system (which would include ripping apart the entire, dungeon, raid, fate, deep dungeon, trials, and alliance raid systems.) and implement a direct copy of FF11’s combat system.

I kind of have a hard time grasping why you are even playing 14 if you have this issue with one of the core gameplay components. Despite not liking playing FF11 on the pc you can still sub to it. Run it through steam there’s your controller support if that’s your preference. But using final fantasy 11 as an argument for reasons they could make blue mage a full job is a nonargument. They are not the same game not even remotely from my understanding.

[Starcake28]

Omg noo i'm saying stop with the bs trying to keep all dps full dps without healing spam let spam heal but our heal wont be like healers. But i see have thy want us to wait on a healer to heal if thy gave other classes healing the game would be alot better thn. pvp healer can do more than just heal thy can dps to if u look at the way thy showing the game in pvp it don't look like pvp anymore thy took everything away wat i'm saying is lower the cooldown on ability heals to 10.00 tht Would be alot better also i'm not saying rip the game apart i'm just looking at what i believe there trying to keep dps from doing like RDM atm which thy may nerf soon so thy don't heal so much. There goal look like its always abt the team not the players if the heal drop and no one has raise rip group Tht's there goal or if healer Can't raise tank fast rip group .....

[Kabooa]

Bad idea's are subjective, what is bad in some their mind is a great idea in others. There are plenty of traditional combat classes, lets try to have one limited job and see where it goes.

We know exactly where it's going.

Fates and the Masked Carneval.

[Kitfox]

Yay, for running Blue mage in old content that you could face roll with your max level class anyway, am I right? So much fun!

[Mithia]

We know exactly where it's going.

Fates and the Masked Carneval.

Oh no, the sky is falling!!

And worst case scenario, if the Masked Carneval is the only end game BLU can participate in. As long as its fun I don't see an issue.
But! We don't know, we have no insider information, we have no idea what the future plans are for BLU.
Assumptions are just that, assumptions.

What we do know - level limit is 50, you will have to grind a lot of mobs to get your required skills, and you are excluded from DF but you are able to join up with others through PF. They have plans however to raise the level cap in a future patch.

So, "just" fates and masked carneval is by all means a very narrow look upon the job itself.

[Darkpaw]

It's nothing more than a wait and see now. It's too late to alter course and they have a ton of feed back to do with what they choose. Just about a month to go.