re: Known Issues After Patch 4.5 (Jan. 17, 18)

[Vnolan]

With how Blue mage is designed to play, the ideal method to level is to

tag a bunch of mobs and have a lvl 70 kill them for you.

cast thousand needles on a mob at least 10 levels above your own that is passive, like a crystal type enemy or something, to one shot it.

BLU has access to a sleep spell (Acorn Bomb), an instant spell (Flying Sardine) and a spell that stuns and pulls mobs to you (Sticky Tongue). All three are easy to get.

The activity will die down as more and more players reach 50. You can either wait it out or learn how the game systems like tagging work.

[therpgfanatic]

tag a bunch of mobs and have a lvl 70 kill them for you.


BLU has access to a sleep spell (Acorn Bomb), an instant spell (Flying Sardine) and a spell that stuns and pulls mobs to you (Sticky Tongue). All three are easy to get.

The activity will die down as more and more players reach 50. You can either wait it out or learn how the game systems like tagging work.

You're the one that doesn't seem to understand how lv70 characters with instant cast one shot abilities can annhilate maps before a blue mage can even get a single water cannon cast off, let alone these debuffs you're talking about.

To be clear here: I already leveled blue mage to 50, which I did legitimately. I have almost my entire spellbook complete, too including 2 primal spells completed.

This isn't about me angry I can't level due to exploiters. This is about what I had to go through (12+ hours of grinding looking for areas where these exploiters were not at, which was hard to find), and the the other players in the zones still trying to level who will be dealing with this for months since the game has over a million players, and now most anyone with a 70 is going to use this exploit.

It doesn't just affect blue mages. It also impacts other newbie players, too who need to kill x enemies for a quest which these guys are annihilating in North Than and Mor Dhona, and other areas in North Shroud.

It's a very entitled and selfish attitude of people who use this exploit and its impact on other players needs to be considered by SE.

[Vnolan]

You're the one that doesn't seem to understand how lv70 characters with instant cast one shot abilities can annhilate maps before a blue mage can even get a single water cannon cast off, let alone these debuffs you're talking about.

BLU has access to ... an instant spell (Flying Sardine)

Players should be tagging mobs with the instant spell.

[therpgfanatic]

Players should be tagging mobs with the instant spell.

Flying Sardine has potency of 10 and cast time of 2.5s. That's the same cast time as water cannon.

The only instant spells blue mage has have to be learned from primals.

Regardless 10 potency tag isnt going to help the blue mage deal with lv70 characters with instant aoe spells nuking groups of mobs

[Lovescake]

Flying Sardine has potency of 10 and cast time of 2.5s. That's the same cast time as water cannon.

The only instant spells blue mage has have to be learned from primals.

https://imgur.com/O5Ka4gE

> Cast time: Instant
Recast time

[therpgfanatic]

https://imgur.com/O5Ka4gE

> Cast time: Instant
Recast time

The wikia is wrong then.

https://ffxiv.consolegameswiki.com/wiki/Flying_Sardine

Regardless a 10 potency single target cast isn't going to be effective at addressing what I am talking about, and I think you realize that

[Lovescake]

The wikia is wrong then.

https://ffxiv.consolegameswiki.com/wiki/Flying_Sardine

Regardless a 10 potency single target cast isn't going to be effective at addressing what I am talking about, and I think you realize that

Incorrect.

If you tag the monster, you still get the exp, regardless of who killed that mob, you instant cast on it and someone hits it? who cares, free exp to you, thats how the other levelling method works outside of this solo work.

Also, realistically. Why aren't you just LOOKING at your spells, rather than referencing the wikia.

another note to add also, people aren't using macros to switch between jobs. Macros include delay, and terrible ones at that, otherwise youd actively use macros for a wider range of spells for raiding and such, people are doing something way simpler.. they're putting their saved job gear set, on their hotbar, and pressing a key. that's literally it.

In honesty though, i really really don't grasp why this is such a big issue, it's went under the bridge for so long until people get upset about not being able to kill a mob, i get it, it sucks to some retrospect, but realistically? the problem will void itself, most open world areas now are barren of this anyway,


and to the person for "1 million players", that's not how it works, you have a data centre, and a server, and i can guarantee you that there isn't a million active players of this game right now, and if so, its a tight stretch across all regions