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[official_coconut]

While I support Blue Mage becoming a full job that doesn't mean that I can't support the unlocking of Male Viera and more hairstyles for the new races. The issue is that Blue Mage is old news compared to Viera and Hrothgar, since these new races were one the major points of the expansion. They need to make some serious decisions about how to create new jobs because a job that no one wants to touch or bother to level is a bad investment compared to something that benefits everyone, like system or other quality of life upgrades.

[Kye]

While I support Blue Mage becoming a full job that doesn't mean that I can't support the unlocking of Male Viera and more hairstyles for the new races. The issue is that Blue Mage is old news compared to Viera and Hrothgar, since these new races were one the major points of the expansion. They need to make some serious decisions about how to create new jobs because a job that no one wants to touch or bother to level is a bad investment compared to something that benefits everyone, like system or other quality of life upgrades.

All development outside of the story has been really strange recently, they've been constantly missing their mark or falling short and just causing tons of displeasure among the player base to the point where some may argue it might have been better not to implement anything at all because what does release is so disappointing.

I honestly believe they've pulled most FFXIV devs off the team to work on FF7 Remake because they can't allow that to fail and it's sad. Instead of the devs actually working to add what people want, like they did in the past, now it's like: "Well here's what we have the time and resources to make, so how do we spin it so that it seems like we're giving them what they want?"

It's all very disheartening because Shadowbringers was the expansion that truly made FFXIV a WoW-killer (if there is such a thing) and the devteam seems to be lacking the most during this critical time.

Why can't Yoshi P say what we all dream he would: "We're going to make Male Viera and Female Hrothgar!" "We're going to make Blue Mage a regular job!"

Why do we keep getting half-finished things that no one asked for instead of one fully completed thing? I think I know why... because FFXIV is an amusement park, and the more rides there are, the more visitors it will get, regardless of how cruddy those rides are.

[ReiMakoto]

LMAO, the "4 Man Blue Mage Content" is a dungeon challenge log. Super Innovative, so glad to be getting more of the same, unless the new spells are somehow nutty so much for wait and see.

[Saintly]

Yay! Level cap increased to 60!
I highly doubt that they even noticed that this thread exist... or the English forums.

[Allegor]

It's something. Wouldn't surprise me it becomes dead content [again] within a few weeks though.

[Nariel]

It's something. Wouldn't surprise me it becomes dead content [again] within a few weeks though.

Few weeks ? I give it mere hours to get 60 and two to three day for spells and carnival to be done with.

[Nalien]

LMAO, the "4 Man Blue Mage Content" is a dungeon challenge log. Super Innovative, so glad to be getting more of the same, unless the new spells are somehow nutty so much for wait and see.

Ima riot if we don't get Reraise off Lost City (Hard). At least with that we can maybe have some fun with Final Sting/Self Destruct.

Really though, Blue Mage doesn't need much of a spell list expansion, it needs a base rework... I don't really care that it's a limited job, honestly I wouldn't even call it the first limited job (that goes to Fisher, which is essentially a limited gatherer with 90% of the fish being "for fun"), but the job needs to still function like a job... I'd love to see Blue Mage given a basic job gauge and simple rotation outside the spell list we currently have... Even if it's just a 123 combo to build a gauge to cast big spells, that's a significant improvement on the jobs playability compared to what we have currently... Throw in something like XI Blue Mages "Spells have stat boosts attached when you set them, and setting specific combinations of spells grants you various traits and added effects" if we're feeling fancy... If Blue Mage is meant to be "just for fun", then at least make it fun... Just lazily adding some spells and having us set 20 and leaving it at that is... Well... Lazy...

[Berteaux_Braumegain]

Doing dungeons as four Blue Mages? I remember doing Tam-Tara for Mind Blast with four Blue Mages was a chore and that was when we were unsynced at Level 30.

Ima riot if we don't get Reraise off Lost City (Hard). At least with that we can maybe have some fun with Final Sting/Self Destruct.

Really though, Blue Mage doesn't need much of a spell list expansion, it needs a base rework... I don't really care that it's a limited job, honestly I wouldn't even call it the first limited job (that goes to Fisher, which is essentially a limited gatherer with 90% of the fish being "for fun"), but the job needs to still function like a job... I'd love to see Blue Mage given a basic job gauge and simple rotation outside the spell list we currently have... Even if it's just a 123 combo to build a gauge to cast big spells, that's a significant improvement on the jobs playability compared to what we have currently... Throw in something like XI Blue Mages "Spells have stat boosts attached when you set them, and setting specific combinations of spells grants you various traits and added effects" if we're feeling fancy... If Blue Mage is meant to be "just for fun", then at least make it fun... Just lazily adding some spells and having us set 20 and leaving it at that is... Well... Lazy...

Agreed. Playability-wise, Blue Mage feels very barebones. Every other job feels like you're building towards something, whether it be accumulating Greased Lightning, Sen, feathers, Astral Fire, etc.

Blue Mage is just "Well, you can equip these spells after you wrestle with RNG. And that's about all we felt like doing with it."

[Brightshadow]

Wow what a train wreck they feel a BLU only duty finder will save the job.

I was at least expecting them to say we can do deep dungeon/use squadron. It's like they have no idea what to do with this job, and they don't care about feedback.

[Brightshadow]

Ima riot if we don't get Reraise off Lost City (Hard). At least with that we can maybe have some fun with Final Sting/Self Destruct.

Really though, Blue Mage doesn't need much of a spell list expansion, it needs a base rework... I don't really care that it's a limited job, honestly I wouldn't even call it the first limited job (that goes to Fisher, which is essentially a limited gatherer with 90% of the fish being "for fun"), but the job needs to still function like a job... I'd love to see Blue Mage given a basic job gauge and simple rotation outside the spell list we currently have... Even if it's just a 123 combo to build a gauge to cast big spells, that's a significant improvement on the jobs playability compared to what we have currently... Throw in something like XI Blue Mages "Spells have stat boosts attached when you set them, and setting specific combinations of spells grants you various traits and added effects" if we're feeling fancy... If Blue Mage is meant to be "just for fun", then at least make it fun... Just lazily adding some spells and having us set 20 and leaving it at that is... Well... Lazy...

Here is the thing though.

Fisher can do current level content compared to BLU which is limited to lower/outdated content. If BLU could do level 80 content I'm sure the outlash for limited jobs would be much less because at least they could do current dungeons & trials with the only limitation being If the party leader makes the party slots free. Another thing is that in unsync content you get no exp or drops which means it's pointless to help a BLU while leveling a job or obtaining drops at the same time. Instead of making BLU only parties I think SE should have introduced a option to allow those that are queuing for synced content or Don't mind playing with a BLU to enable it to allow the matching with BLUs in the same fashion you can enter content unsync with an option. And raise the level cap of BLU to 80 even if they currently don't have spells for those areas. The spells could have been added later over updates.