Dev Team, you screwed up.

[Tempest222]

Unless they plan to do a major overhaul blu will be completely dead content in a matter of months. The bulk of the player base who has any interest in the job will be finished farming their spells pretty soon, and then there will be hardly anyone around in party finder looking to do this content. Anyone who doesn’t get all their spell farming done right now and who doesn’t have a dedicated group will be forever locked out of experiencing most of blu forever.

I know most people tend to not like the idea of solo content in an mmo, but I think it would have been fun if they had delivered an actual solo job where you could learn all your spells in the world or that was actually so OP as to be able to solo required instances. As it stands, this “solo” job is actually some of the most solo unfriendly content in the game, and it’ll likely be essentially inaccessible to most people in the future who weren’t around for the launch hype.

So yeah, aside from rethinking the whole job so that they can allow it in duty finder, the only thing that could potentially save it/maintain the ability to actually do this content in the future is trusts. They may or may not have had blu in mind when thinking about the implementation of trusts, so I’m not really counting on that. They seemed pretty proud that drop rates for spells could be increases with a full party of blue mages, which makes me think they do not want this to be soloable content.... amd apparently they also want very few people playing it in the future.

[Elnidfse]

Unless they plan to do a major overhaul blu will be completely dead content in a matter of months. The bulk of the player base who has any interest in the job will be finished farming their spells pretty soon, and then there will be hardly anyone around in party finder looking to do this content. Anyone who doesn’t get all their spell farming done right now and who doesn’t have a dedicated group will be forever locked out of experiencing most of blu forever.

I know most people tend to not like the idea of solo content in an mmo, but I think it would have been fun if they had delivered an actual solo job where you could learn all your spells in the world or that was actually so OP as to be able to solo required instances. As it stands, this “solo” job is actually some of the most solo unfriendly content in the game, and it’ll likely be essentially inaccessible to most people in the future who weren’t around for the launch hype.

So yeah, aside from rethinking the whole job so that they can allow it in duty finder, the only thing that could potentially save it/maintain the ability to actually do this content in the future is trusts. They may or may not have had blu in mind when thinking about the implementation of trusts, so I’m not really counting on that. They seemed pretty proud that drop rates for spells could be increases with a full party of blue mages, which makes me think they do not want this to be soloable content.... amd apparently they also want very few people playing it in the future.

Pretty soon he says
Ahahaha. Let me tell you what. Farming primals is horrible. No part of this process is "soon"

[Huntrss]

Unless they plan to do a major overhaul blu will be completely dead content in a matter of months. The bulk of the player base who has any interest in the job will be finished farming their spells pretty soon, and then there will be hardly anyone around in party finder looking to do this content. Anyone who doesn’t get all their spell farming done right now and who doesn’t have a dedicated group will be forever locked out of experiencing most of blu forever.

I know most people tend to not like the idea of solo content in an mmo, but I think it would have been fun if they had delivered an actual solo job where you could learn all your spells in the world or that was actually so OP as to be able to solo required instances. As it stands, this “solo” job is actually some of the most solo unfriendly content in the game, and it’ll likely be essentially inaccessible to most people in the future who weren’t around for the launch hype.

So yeah, aside from rethinking the whole job so that they can allow it in duty finder, the only thing that could potentially save it/maintain the ability to actually do this content in the future is trusts. They may or may not have had blu in mind when thinking about the implementation of trusts, so I’m not really counting on that. They seemed pretty proud that drop rates for spells could be increases with a full party of blue mages, which makes me think they do not want this to be soloable content.... amd apparently they also want very few people playing it in the future.

Months ...Let me correct that Days.. in a week you will be 50 or it forget about you that why opening day was a rush to level 50 the next day .. some players are still playing and other never started or Quite. sad part is I may as well say I'm forcing myself to continue until level 50 but in no way I'll pick it up again

[Ilyrian]

Unless they plan to do a major overhaul blu will be completely dead content in a matter of months.

How is this different to any other content?

[Blueyes]

How is this different to any other content?

SE chose to sacrifice a beloved job of the Final Fantasy franchise, having forfeited the idea of making it into a proper job. To justify a decision like that, its content better be damn good. It isn't.

[Huntrss]

Hildibrand Adventures of A Blue Mage that is what this Content should be called.

[Karshan]

SE chose to sacrifice a beloved job of the Final Fantasy franchise, having forfeited the idea of making it into a proper job. To justify a decision like that, its content better be damn good. It isn't.

I think you summed it all. Plain and simple.
It's limited. Many people including me hate that. Only thing to appease is to give content worth the sacrifice. We couldn't judge before but with our experience of Square were afraid. And indeed we were let down.

Now we know that the only people who can love Blue mage are the ones who don't care about the limited part. To others, who like Extreme and Savage content, it was not a good trade off at all.

[wereotter]

i'm 46 and i feel the same, the damage of water cannon is ridicule.... 200 with off guard, if you use britle and peculiar light it can reach almost 400 damage.... on level 37 monster it take more of 10 cast for kill it....

I've reached level 50 and have all my 130 gear (minus a Dreadwurm ring) and I will say it gets slighty better, but still just not a high enough potency. I find myself using The Look as my primary attack just because it has an extra 20 potency, but even then it's only 130 verses other base actions for DPS casters at 180, and as I mentioned still low even compared to healers base attack damage..

[GrenGarm]

Hildibrand Adventures of A Blue Mage that is what this Content should be called.

Hildibrand is more fun than BLU, with better rewards.

[Mesarthim]

2 days in and have all but 5 trial spells (dragon's neck and 3 primals) and 2 carnivale spells. My damage contribution is... not good? At least not very good in comparison to an actual job due to no weapon stats and low potency on skills. I can do okay damage with the primal skills in succession but then my damage drops off (unless I decide to self destruct which some cases just makes things take longer if it's a long walk, excluding the boss lockout teleport).

I stopped at 7 carnivale stages but I could complete them all today if I felt like it, just put it off until I had all spells that weren't tied to it. After I get my 5 missing spells and do the carnivale then what? Do I really have a class that isn't good for anything other than blowing up in towns?