Please make Blue Mage a normal job

[LineageRazor]

I've played through everything BLU, now, minus the special achievements, and I honestly enjoyed the journey. I just don't feel like it was enough, that it did the classic and well-loved job the justice it deserved. There may be more to come in the future - I'd bet on it, in fact - but it will likely just be more of the same. More Carnivale puzzle fights, more spells, more solo level grinding.

However, I'd say that SE has painted themselves into a corner with the way the job is put together; reworking it to be a real job would simply be too time-consuming an effort. It'd need to be rebuilt practically from the ground up, as so many of its basic concepts just don't mesh well with a standard job. They don't WANT BLU's rampaging through Duty Finder Sastasha with thirty-odd abilities while their poor newbie party members are plunking away at their two-button rotation, for instance; the design decision to make any learned spell available from level 1 just won't fly on a normal job.

The devs had the chance to create a balanced job, but made a sideshow, instead. Honestly, I think it's too late to backtrack, now; the costs in development time would simply be too steep.

[MrKimper]

I've played through everything BLU, now, minus the special achievements, and I honestly enjoyed the journey. I just don't feel like it was enough, that it did the classic and well-loved job the justice it deserved. There may be more to come in the future - I'd bet on it, in fact - but it will likely just be more of the same. More Carnivale puzzle fights, more spells, more solo level grinding.

However, I'd say that SE has painted themselves into a corner with the way the job is put together; reworking it to be a real job would simply be too time-consuming an effort. It'd need to be rebuilt practically from the ground up, as so many of its basic concepts just don't mesh well with a standard job. They don't WANT BLU's rampaging through Duty Finder Sastasha with thirty-odd abilities while their poor newbie party members are plunking away at their two-button rotation, for instance; the design decision to make any learned spell available from level 1 just won't fly on a normal job.

The devs had the chance to create a balanced job, but made a sideshow, instead. Honestly, I think it's too late to backtrack, now; the costs in development time would simply be too steep.

Pretty much this, there haven't been any feedback threads on blue mage has there been?

[Ramesses]

Pretty much this, there haven't been any feedback threads on blue mage has there been?

There definitely has...I even wrote a couple.

[ReiMakoto]

Pretty much this, there haven't been any feedback threads on blue mage has there been?

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...our-support%21

This was the main one, with very many upvotes, as well as the limited jobs are a bad idea thread with nearly 200.

Edit: Heres the limited Job thread http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...back-now/page1

[MrKimper]

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...our-support%21

This was the main one, with very many upvotes, as well as the limited jobs are a bad idea thread with nearly 200.

Oof, kinda stings that it was completely ignored while BA gets an instant response 27 pages in. I mean i get it Eureka is a higher priority but, still I'd like some sort of reaction to the negative feedback.

[ReiMakoto]

Oof, kinda stings that it was completely ignored while BA gets an instant response 27 pages in. I mean i get it Eureka is a higher priority but, still I'd like some sort of reaction to the negative feedback.

Its because a bunch of people levelled it to 50, so it was deemed successful and its not something that a quick hotfixes and adjustments can solve.

[TaiyoShikasu]

I've played through everything BLU, now, minus the special achievements, and I honestly enjoyed the journey. I just don't feel like it was enough, that it did the classic and well-loved job the justice it deserved. There may be more to come in the future - I'd bet on it, in fact - but it will likely just be more of the same. More Carnivale puzzle fights, more spells, more solo level grinding.

However, I'd say that SE has painted themselves into a corner with the way the job is put together; reworking it to be a real job would simply be too time-consuming an effort. It'd need to be rebuilt practically from the ground up, as so many of its basic concepts just don't mesh well with a standard job. They don't WANT BLU's rampaging through Duty Finder Sastasha with thirty-odd abilities while their poor newbie party members are plunking away at their two-button rotation, for instance; the design decision to make any learned spell available from level 1 just won't fly on a normal job.

The devs had the chance to create a balanced job, but made a sideshow, instead. Honestly, I think it's too late to backtrack, now; the costs in development time would simply be too steep.

Unless you get someone who really REALLY enjoys Sastasha which isn't unlikely, BLU would be a boon to any leveling roulette group just for its ability to tear apart all sub-30 dungeons and post-30 once Rams Voice is acquired.

Nobody runs most roulettes because they enjoy them, they just want to get their tomes, exp, whayever and get out.