Make Blue Mage a dps focused HEALER job.

[SenorPatty]

I'm open for blu to be just about anything except limited.

[BubblyBoar]

As long as BLU is a functional real job, I'll take anything at this point.

[ReiMakoto]

I love BLU, but a healer it is not, even traditionally it had some powerful heals but nothing that actually replace a dedicated healer. The ideal pipe dream would be a BLU spec for each role, but i do not see that ever happening, if it must be something it would make sense to work it into a dps not a healer

[AvenoMatt]

BLU should just be reworked into a full functioning caster job. They have the spells they just need to actually make the job viable, and personally prune the amount of spells they have, mainly remove the CC spells as CC has never been a thing in this game.

Healers deserve an actual new job not a repurposed one. I for one am rooting for Chemist.

[ShenDrakar]

stop trying to make blu happen, it's not going to happen

Shut up Regina! :P

[Razard]

stop trying to make blu happen, it's not going to happen

This. All of this.

Have you been to the class forums lately? there's 3-5 threads in each whinging about "Job Identity", whatever the hell that means. It's a race to the bottom to see who can scream their bad idea the loudest to make their pet class "more in line with traditional FF (INSERT Class here)", even if it wont work within the games framework.

This is why they where nervous about Blue Mage. It just doesn't work within ffxiv's battle system, Where everyone is specialized into one of three roles, with very little overlap. And would you look at that, they where right to be nervous.

Blue has all the job identity you could ever want

[Maero]

Next healer job i would rather it be something new and hopefully unique.
Highly likely it could be Geomancer.. in 7.0 .
(bad joke i know but we all know next expansion will be more dps..)

[ReiMakoto]

This. All of this.

Have you been to the class forums lately? there's 3-5 threads in each whinging about "Job Identity", whatever the hell that means. It's a race to the bottom to see who can scream their bad idea the loudest to make their pet class "more in line with traditional FF (INSERT Class here)", even if it wont work within the games framework.

This is why they where nervous about Blue Mage. It just doesn't work within ffxiv's battle system, Where everyone is specialized into one of three roles, with very little overlap. And would you look at that, they where right to be nervous.

Blue has all the job identity you could ever want

You need to be a real Job to have a Job identity. Real talk though, its been discussed so many times that FFXIV doesnt match Blues Job identity its unreal, so it doesnt bear repeating all of it. But a nice Sum up is BLU is historically used to support and compliment a party, something ffxivs cannot do

[Kemiko]

BLU hasn't ever been a healer and I'm equally confused about this as I was when people were hoping DNC would be a healer (it never was either). Any FF I've ever played never had Geomancer as a healer either. Where are folks getting these ideas about job roles? Or id this just some desperate grab for a 4th healer?

[Averax]

All healers are pretty much a dps focused healer job right now