No discussion on fixing Blu?????

[Kalise]

BLU was never touted for solo play in anything but the Overworld and the solo content devised specifically for them (Carnival). If you assumed it meant BLU could solo Ex Trials and all of Coil, that's a misunderstanding on your part because that was never said.

It was also never said that BLU would have to do EX Trials and Coil in order to go and learn spells.

All was said about group content was that they could group up with other BLU's in order to do this content.

Outside of this, everything said about BLU was specifically in regards to them being a solo job that doesn't need nor work very well in group content.

This, includes their reasoning for making their weapon not have stats, so that BLU's wouldn't feel as though they needed to farm dungeons in order to get weapon upgrades.

To take away nothing in regards to their official reveal trailer having a BLU solo Shiva.

Unless you can also point out where on this slide they specifically mention solo only for overworld and Carnivale:

[Gralna]

Last update I saw about BLU was that they'd be getting a lvl cap increase to 60 with the first patch after 5.0.

With expansion so close, I wouldn't expect any major changes to BLU till after 5.1 when everything has kind of settled down.

[guardin]

Just saw both fanfest and live letter and it saddens me blu was not discussed at all. I feel like this is going to become like diadem and scrapped. My favorite job in all of ff to be a mockery.

There is nothing to fix. It is not your favorite job, you just want something to complain about and be a snowflake. 80% of the playerbase is happy. The fix you are looking for will come in the form of new spells and balence. Please Yoshi dont break bLU keep it limited!

[guardin]

I'm a bit confused by all these "fix BLU" threads. The fact that it's not what you wanted doesn't mean it's broken. The job arrived working exactly as promised. What part needs fixing?

Nothing, they are just digging deep creating problems where problems does not exisit. It is the internet, the creation of cancer. If they dont have anything worthwhile to contribute other than hating the game, they can go somewhere else. Alas, it is the internet, they will always find somewhere to complain about something. Blu isnt broken, it is the people who are playing it that are broken

[Factoree]

There is nothing to fix. It is not your favorite job, you just want something to complain about and be a snowflake. 80% of the playerbase is happy. The fix you are looking for will come in the form of new spells and balence. Please Yoshi dont break bLU keep it limited!

Sorry, but I doubt you have any evidence to back up your”80%” claim.

Please explain why BLU being able to participate in endgame content would take away from your enjoyment of the Blue Mage.
Please also explain why you think you can tell other people that BLU is not their favorite job.
Finally, how much experience do you have with the Blue Mage to assess whether it needs fixing? Have you played it at level 50? Have you collected all the spells?

As someone who has completed the Blue Mage content currently available, I feel that it does need major fixes, whether that’s making the Limited version of the job actually fun to play or giving it access to more content in general.

[Valdegarde]

80% of the time, made up statistics are wrong every time.
How about some actual polls showing a sample of the player population?

https://www.strawpoll.me/16866229
https://www.strawpoll.me/17279778
https://www.strawpoll.me/17328160

Draw your own conclusions.

People will still try to trample on players hopes no matter what. Just have to keep up the discussion despite that.

[GenericMagus]

It's ignorant of SE to not mention anything on BLU, and to have complete radio silence as per usual for anything with the slightest bit of criticism.

I love BLU to pieces. Every FF possible I get one. Always. No matter what. It's my absolute favourite job in the whole series. But to be broken like this. It's unfair, and it's incompetence at best, spite at the worst.

There's nothing revolutionary about BLU. It was done far better in XI. Which pretty much inspired this incarnation instead of having a FFXIV equivalent. The elemental system doesn't matter, it's merely a justification for so many clone moves (yet only one Wind element attack, and it's Primal and oGCD).

To me SE is gonna write thenselves into a corner with how convoluted that they're gonna jump through to make BLU relevant, fun and have more content than a 3 mini-roulette weekly, whereas if they opened it up to be able to access every content we wouldn't be in this mess.


If Dancer was limited would you want it unlocked? If Red Mage? Samurai? Hell, Dark Knight is against what a lot of people wanted, a strong Melee DPS with health drain mechanics and HP cost abilties. Would that deserve to be Limited so SE can give people that DRK they wanted?

[Liam_Harper]

Personally I don't care as much about the whole making Blu a regular class or "why isn't BLU completely solo". I'm fine with a limited class and I don't mind stepping into a dungeon or two.

My problem with BLU is that it was over in a week. That's how long it takes to lv50 and beat the Carnival even at a casual pace, then after that the class has nothing. The only content is repeat a few fights in the Carnival once a week for allied seals and be afk-carried through primals. That's it. BLU has literally nothing else fun or worthwhile to it. It's too weak to run dungeons with other BLU's and there's nothing rewarding in the open world.

I don't get what they were aiming for. The class has no endgame at all. They made a limited class but had no plan for how to make a limited class work.

[Dualgunner]

BLU was never touted for solo play in anything but the Overworld and the solo content devised specifically for them (Carnival).

How is that any different from any non-limited job? They all can solo the Overworld, quite easily I might add.

Why'd they say "Designed for solo play, not suited for parties" instead of "Designed for use in the Masked Carnivale"? The latter would clearly indicate that it's not a solo job, it's just built with a singular solo duty in mind.

[redcurrant18]

Got tired of Blue Mage after a week. Make it a regular class otherwise I'm not interested in investing any time in it and I'll focus on the other new jobs we're getting instead.