Please make Blue Mage a normal job

[CaptainLagbeard]

I very much think Blue Mage should remain a limited job, as even as a limited job it can do just about all the content if they are given the ability to reach max level. And limited doesn't mean a lower max level, or at least doesn't have to. The way it's set up is that limited means they just can't use the Duty Finder.


And I do hope they spend a good amount of time working on Blue Mage once Shadowbringers hits so they can get it to 80. They've stated they have a good amount of new spells planned out for it and have said that the first proper patch after Shadowbringers release, meaning 5.05 or 5.1, they will update BLU to reach 60.

[Valdegarde]

I haven't played in over a month now, mostly due to my disgust at how Blue Mage was implemented and not really feeling the desire to play the game while there's such a lack of hope there.
Checking back in, I'm glad to see people are still trying to create hope, but really disappointed at everyone who seems satisfied with allowing an iconic job to remain butchered so that they can have their jollies being so "weird" and "random" once (if at all), then shelving the job and dancing with joy around other's crushed dreams.

As it stands, I have no desire to come back for Shadowbringers.

[Zsplash]

I haven't played in over a month now, mostly due to my disgust at how Blue Mage was implemented and not really feeling the desire to play the game while there's such a lack of hope there.
Checking back in, I'm glad to see people are still trying to create hope, but really disappointed at everyone who seems satisfied with allowing an iconic job to remain butchered so that they can have their jollies being so "weird" and "random" once (if at all), then shelving the job and dancing with joy around other's crushed dreams.

As it stands, I have no desire to come back for Shadowbringers.

I agree with this, people can theorize how it can be made a job but I know no action will be taken since no one was taking action like unsubbing or demonstrating just how unpopular this idea was with unending complaints.

Instead people praised SE for its originality and they probably think it was ok. Not sure if Japanese players cared or were upset but I know for a fact blue mage was just used to bolster subs during the expansion lull. A time when people let subs lapse.

They'd have done better releasing a real job but that would have taken way more development time than what we actually got

[Lacan]

I haven't played in over a month now, mostly due to my disgust at how Blue Mage was implemented and not really feeling the desire to play the game while there's such a lack of hope there.
Checking back in, I'm glad to see people are still trying to create hope, but really disappointed at everyone who seems satisfied with allowing an iconic job to remain butchered so that they can have their jollies being so "weird" and "random" once (if at all), then shelving the job and dancing with joy around other's crushed dreams.

As it stands, I have no desire to come back for Shadowbringers.

well, I'm having fun with it. :v I mean, isn't that the most important thing? Maybe you should give it a try before you write it off completely.

[Zsplash]

well, I'm having fun with it. :v I mean, isn't that the most important thing? Maybe you should give it a try before you write it off completely.

Someone else enjoying a bad decision isn't important to me personally, if you like it good for you though. I gave it a try and realized it for what it is, a minigame under the guise of a class. The minigame is the scavenger hunt for abilities you really never needed or will ever need to play the game since the job is capped at 50 (and unable to run in duty finder of course)

[Lacan]

Someone else enjoying a bad decision isn't important to me personally, if you like it good for you though. I gave it a try and realized it for what it is, a minigame under the guise of a class. The minigame is the scavenger hunt for abilities you really never needed or will ever need to play the game since the job is capped at 50

well, regardless of whether it is a minigame or not, isn't the important thing whether you're having fun or not? :v I mean, aren't we playing XIV to have fun?

[Zsplash]

It's not fun though, some may have enjoyed it like yourself but I dont think endgame is going to be replaced by blues running 50 content.

Indicates it's not more fun than the actual game it could have been part of.

[Physic]

Except blue mage has been differentiated from black mage by being mostly a support mage job with physical casts, like catomancer, vampire and xi's blue, also khimari. Blue mages were known for using a variety of weapons and play styles throughout the games but they tended to lean towards better physical prowess.

Also unlike red mage again a lot of their skills were physical in those appearances with their "magic" skills being more so debuffs.

Yeah they generally have statsus effects, thats what they have now. i dont know about vampire and catmancer, not sure if those would be considered blue mages, but all the rest have things like doom level 5 petrify, gravity type attacks, a few elemental etc. Also blu mage has some physcal enemy skills.


looking at the blu magic page, looks like ffxiv version aligns very closely with the vast majority of iterations of blue magic and blue mage in its implementation. The most common factor is learning skills from enemies, and conditional spells like white wind, mighty guard, doom, missle, bad breath, 1000 needles, self destruct etc.



kimahri has access to these type of spells, as well. only the non blue mages from non ff games seem to be that different


https://finalfantasy.fandom.com/wiki/Blue_Magic

[Lacan]

It's not fun though, some may have enjoyed it like yourself but I dont think endgame is going to be replaced by blues running 50 content.

Indicates it's not more fun than the actual game it could have been part of.

Well, I don't think it is meant to replace the traditional endgame at all, but to provide a distraction from it. It also gives people who aren't into raiding something they can work on. I get not liking that blue mage got stuck being a limited job, but I don't think the limited job idea itself is bad. It has the potential to flesh out the game more and make it less top heavy. The goal being that people do stuff besides their weekly tomes/chest stuff.


I think they would have been better off saving this limited job concept for something more out there, like beastmaster or puppetmaster so that people who wanted blue mage as a full job wouldn't feel so slighted by it being "limited." :v But what's done is done.

[ReiMakoto]

Yeah they generally have statsus effects, thats what they have now. i dont know about vampire and catmancer, not sure if those would be considered blue mages, but all the rest have things like doom level 5 petrify, gravity type attacks, a few elemental etc. Also blu mage has some physcal enemy skills.


looking at the blu magic page, looks like ffxiv version aligns very closely with the vast majority of iterations of blue magic and blue mage in its implementation. The most common factor is learning skills from enemies, and conditional spells like white wind, mighty guard, doom, missle, bad breath, 1000 needles, self destruct etc.



kimahri has access to these type of spells, as well. only the non blue mages from non ff games seem to be that different


https://finalfantasy.fandom.com/wiki/Blue_Magic

In traditional final fantasy they were also a valuable PARTY MEMBER, that could take part in the endgame and the game as a whole as a valuable job.