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

[SpiralMask]

The issues then, since were talking about learned skills in a DF or PF environment, comes down a few things. For one, how many skills do you need to bring a BLU into a dungeon? You would have to enforce a minimum. Then it comes down to which skills can and cant be learned/used. For example, technically you can learn about any skill currently as long as you meet the basics of seeing the enemy die and tagging it and not being dead. Not impossible, but you could get mountain buster at lvl 10 with an undersized party. So having a BLU come into a low level dungeon via DF but having Mountain Buster (or similar) is a balance issue. Not game breaking, but annoying enough.

just wanna point out that dancers get a quick 1k potency aoe on a short cooldown staggeringly early and that content at those levels is absolutely unprepared for already, but the guage and having skills spend based on their power is a great idea for both the resource-management and power-balance side.

and the idea for a timed enemy buff preventing status re-application is a much more forgiving way to handle the current resistances system and their debuff list (you get three uses of that status effect and then it's a dead skill on your hotbar the rest of the fight). if BLU statuses were able to bypass base resistance but only on a timer that'd be a nice QoL--a quick and dirty alternative might be something like SCH's emergency tactics, being a ~20s cooldown that would let your next spell bypass enemy resistances (but not immunity).

[ReiMakoto]

just wanna point out that dancers get a quick 1k potency aoe on a short cooldown staggeringly early and that content at those levels is absolutely unprepared for already, but the guage and having skills spend based on their power is a great idea for both the resource-management and power-balance side.

^ This, all older content is broken due to the power creep of newer jobs. DNC is a blender at lower levels because it has both standard step, and very powerful aoe combo from level 15. When stormblood launched rdm had Verthunder/aero at level 15 also with the same strength they had at level 70. This can be seen across all jobs, theres a reason why arr content is stomped so easily these days and most players have never seen even half of the mechanics these dungeons have to offer. Ultimately as well, BLU could have level requirements attached to their spells when in duty finder content, so even if learned earlier you cant use the spell if youre sync'd below a certain level, as most spells have a dungeon/trial source as well as an overworld, the level requirement for the spell could be just made to be the lowest level mob that can cast that spell as a quick and dirty blanket fix (you'd still have eruption at low level, but also again, see dancer)

[Morningstar1337]

^ This, all older content is broken due to the power creep of newer jobs. DNC is a blender at lower levels because it has both standard step, and very powerful aoe combo from level 15. When stormblood launched rdm had Verthunder/aero at level 15 also with the same strength they had at level 70.

Let us not forget AST is the Job that got their panic button the earliest, where as the other two Healer's equivalents are either capstones or close enough to it.

[SpiralMask]

Let us not forget AST is the Job that got their panic button the earliest, where as the other two Healer's equivalents are either capstones or close enough to it.

lbr that's one of the only thing AST has going for it right now, and pointing it out makes me worried it'll be next for the dev pruning shears if they notice