I Would Have Preferred The Dev Team Use Resources On A New Healer Than On Blue Mage

[BubblyBoar]

To be honest, I rather BLU not be here and come later as a full job and that effort put into a healer for 5.0.

[Elkanah]

I'm gonna make a wild guess here that Blue Mage was supposed to be the third job in shadow bringers, but the designers couldn't make their concept work and threw it away as a "limited job", and that dancer was originally supposed to be a healer but got turned into DPS since that role is more popular.

Naoki Yoshida: The release of Blue Mage did not fall far from my expectations — the job was not meant to be subject to the standard rules of FF14 gameplay that players are used to, but rather it was meant to give players freedom in the way they approach the job. That is why it is a “limited job” only in the sense of content matching; there is no limit to the type of play style, and that was the initial concept behind it.

(Nothing really says he wanted it to be a healer of any kind honestly, after looking at a lot of the concept interviews over the last several months leading into BLU's announcement).

[Sauvage]

It has taken them 4 years to try and fix any healing balance issues, but according to a recent interview, they need 2 more years before adding another healer. When you have such critical balancing changes such as this:



God only knows what resources and budget they would need if they added another healer!

/s

[Tribezer0]

I am actually a tank main and a huge fan of blue mage and was expecting to main it when it was released as a job (especially if it managed to be a tank). But seeing as how boring blue mage ended up being, not to mention I haven’t seen anyone including myself even play the class since a week after it’s release, I would immediately give blue mage up to give healers a new class to play. 6 years is way too long to leave them hanging, especially it being the toughest and most critical class in the game.

I really hope the devs realize blue is just not fun at all and stop putting resources into it so they can give out healers some love.

[Auryan]

I am actually a tank main and a huge fan of blue mage and was expecting to main it when it was released as a job (especially if it managed to be a tank). But seeing as how boring blue mage ended up being, not to mention I haven’t seen anyone including myself even play the class since a week after it’s release, I would immediately give blue mage up to give healers a new class to play. 6 years is way too long to leave them hanging, especially it being the toughest and most critical class in the game.

I really hope the devs realize blue is just not fun at all and stop putting resources into it so they can give out healers some love.

I'm not following the logic here. Shadowbringers will add no healer job, so to compensate for that, SE should scrap the limited job system and it's purpose and turn BLU, a traditionally multi-role/hybrid/support job, into a strict healer. For some reason or other. I mean I wouldn't like it, but a DPS (with some support) designation for a standard BLU would make more sense.
Why not, I don't know, create and add a healer job instead? I've seen some people eager for Geomancer or Chemist. I don't know how those will work out, but that's what theorycrafting is for.

[Kalise]

I'm not following the logic here. Shadowbringers will add no healer job, so to compensate for that, SE should scrap the limited job system and it's purpose and turn BLU, a traditionally multi-role/hybrid/support job, into a strict healer. For some reason or other. I mean I wouldn't like it, but a DPS (with some support) designation for a standard BLU would make more sense.
Why not, I don't know, create and add a healer job instead? I've seen some people eager for Geomancer or Chemist. I don't know how those will work out, but that's what theorycrafting is for.

I think you're misreading.

I don't believe they're saying "Make BLU into Healer"

They're saying "Leave BLU to rot and instead put resources into a new Healer"

[Auryan]

I think you're misreading.

I don't believe they're saying "Make BLU into Healer"

They're saying "Leave BLU to rot and instead put resources into a new Healer"

You may be right. Though both options are unreasonable.

[wereotter]

I really do feel for healer mains with the announcement today. You've gone through all of Stormblood with no new job to play with and now will have that repeated in Shadowbringers. BUT I do think that this sets up the company well in the long-term.

I think that this now lets them alternate between a new tank and a new healer every expansion and use the second job spot to alternate between the three different play styles of DPS. Remember, it's important to consider that just because there IS a DPS job that it won't appeal to all players simply because it's a DPS. For example, people who prefer playing casters or melee DPS had nothing new to do through all of Heavensward, in addition to some of the jobs just being sub par (monk) for that expansion leading to fewer play style options rather than the same or more.

If a new healer is added before the expansion following Shadowbringers, then I'll be happy for those who get to play it, of course, but if not, I see no reason it won't be added then.

[Saccharin]

I'm a bit meh on BLU. I think i'm level 14...

The problem with a new healer is what is its USP:
WHM: standard healer with HoTs
SCH: bubble healer... with pet.
AST: bit of both
Fourth?

Personally I'd like something a bit more HoT orientated like Resto druid in WoW. (Yes I used the W word), or Warden if you liked Rift.

[ReiMakoto]

They should have committed to add BLU as a proper job or not at all. But I don't think BLU took away from healer resources.