My Idea For Fixing Blue Mage

[CaptainLagbeard]

Why put all that effort in to not use it like a normal job?

Mostly because of the spell selection system, I'd say.

The Duty Finder as it currently is can't guarantee the Blue Mage even has any spells learned aside from the one starting attack if it allowed them to look for groups through it. And I don't know could they do requirements aside from level and item level.

The game isn't exactly build with futureproofing in mind.

[Shougun]

Mostly because of the spell selection system, I'd say.

The Duty Finder as it currently is can't guarantee the Blue Mage even has any spells learned aside from the one starting attack if it allowed them to look for groups through it. And I don't know could they do requirements aside from level and item level.

The game isn't exactly build with futureproofing in mind.

If it could check for spells, and the kit SE designed was balanced - would you have a problem with it being able to join the DF? (With an added stipulation given that the limited side of the content isn't ruined to do so). (So given that 1. balanced, 2. low stress on groups because you don't get 1 spell blue mages in DF, 3. limited content isn't ruined then 4. DF Blue Mage okay?)

I'm hoping by late 5.5X or 6.0 release that they could have a fully functioning duty finder portion of Blue Mage, maybe enough time to make sure DF has that tool incorporated? A major balance point to making sure Blue Mage is no stress on people is that DF could check that, so my idea becomes a bit less "sturdy" if they can't but I'm not in a hurry either (I get these take a long time, given they have a lot of other stuff to work on too).