Suggesting Ideas for Blue Mage with feedback & Removing Limited Job Status

[Melichoir]

Hello everyone! I have a google document to show regarding about Blue Mage and the status of Limited Jobs. I tried to copy the entire document into the post, but unfortunately it has a max capacity of 3k words. Here is the link for the document.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1...it?usp=sharing

While it may look complete, I feel as though it still needed more time to be worked on. please do note I will try as much as I can to update the document. I would also like to point out a few disclaimers; I have to reach max Job Points as Blue Mage in FFXI; I am suggesting ideas and concept designs and will be thinking of new ideas to provide.

The goal of this post I am making is to bring attention to Blue Mages in FFXIV alongside with the bad decision of having Limited Jobs, with hopes in that Naoki Yoshida and his development team could see some of the posts made about Blue Mages and have a look at my document.

Let's bring Blue Mages to the game as a Full Job, as well as having fun with them in future capped content!

Edit:
To Be Updated

So I guess the proposal would be to remove things like Missile then? Cause despite not using it for bosses, it still is an exceptionally strong skill on trash. Also would need to remove things like Final Sting, cause that would be a problem. Any skills that give flat % damage boosts on short CD would have to be changed.

There's a reason that the 4 minute AV for Mogtomes is a thing. It's because BLUs kit allows for it. If you were to turn BLU into a full class, as proposed, a lot of the status skills and abilities would have to be removed/reworked or prevented from being used in raid content. Otherwise BLU would be a must have in Raids, unless the offset issue is to gut the DPS of the class, but then you run into DPS check issues and it makes it being a full class moot.

Face it, BLU as a concept does not function within the systems of FFXIV. And frankly, Id ont know if it should. I like the class, it's fun to go do the cheese stuff with it, or the Masked Carnival. I like how it is currently, and frankly to make it a full class is gonna require it being reworked from the ground up with a lot of it's skills being homogenized or removed to be practical. I dont think that this is for the best for the class, cause youll likely just end up with a bland mage class that just uses 'glamours' for spells.