SE, the concept of "Limited Jobs" is a really bad idea, turn back now

[Mariel_Crystallie]

The only thing i can think of working this whole limited jobs thingy without making it normal job is by adding a separate jobs that is limited in nature as well. so that they can queue together. But only imagining the amount of resources and budget needed for that is ridiculous. and the fact that they need to update it every expansion/every few patches independently from other jobs is insane. but otherwise, blue mage is really in a tight spot as a playable content.

[Vespar]

so that they can queue together.

So, lets just make a bunch of new limited jobs so they can queue together for old content and be irrelevant from day 1. Woohoo!

[Volsungr]

So, lets just make a bunch of new limited jobs so they can queue together for old content and be irrelevant from day 1. Woohoo!

at least people who are late to the game/blue mage train can finally play the class. and not a waste of resources like it currently is.

[TeraTyrantShadic]

Adding to that, they should also insert a Random duty roulette there, with a daily reward, so it would create a steady influx of Blue Mages running random dungeons.

Another thing that would help immensely is a Blue Mage dungeon entry for Wondrous Tails.

Just no. Do that and we may have a chance of people not bothering to pick up White Wind and most of the time people nowadays would just get power leveled to 60. I would rather not have a Limited Job Roulette as it can be too unpredictable. It would have been far better if they can participate in Normal Roulette where they can stay as a DPS if people tend not to have all of the spells then at level 60 they unlock Role Stance like Tank Stances where then they can run as any role and the daily reward will still be old currencies and most of the items from old currencies are for players who missed out on getting it and still have the option to grab it. We already have 9 roulettes giving away free poetics and Eureka giving away poetics. I would rather prefer if they spend more time and resources developing Blue Mage as a new job for next expansion rather than a Limited Job system roulette or even invest in the Limited Job system at all as the system itself provides nothing of value or anything to contribute to the table..

Wondrous Trials entries they can already do that, but they cannot queue and they have to be done with a premade party plus some rather much unsync it. Wondrous Trials didn’t require you to sync to the trial or raid except for the roulette Wondrous Trials.

i hope we see bst soon since we see it be added in lvl 80 final weapon

personal i think a few more limit jobs would be helpful for blu. they add job similar to blu which tank job like arcane duelist which weild twin scimatar is mage tank which focus dodge attack it may make player stop demand for blu t obe gone. i think the next expansion will feature a healer job and range dps and bst limit jobs which they make pet base lvling pet aswell. i still think give limit job quest hub in dungeon would a good ideal.

geomancer and ranger i hope with hawk pet focus bleed and burn damage effect or frost bite effect

see here my issue with players they think ffxiv is like ffxi but it not it fill with expansion possiblity
you could 3 or 4 more expansion add more jobs. first balance out the job current we have 4 tanks 3 healer 4 melee 3 range dps.
next expasnion could be 2 addition expansion jobs and 1 limit jobs.
the expansion after that could be 2 more jobs and one limit job. dodge mage like duel wieild scimitar mage called ether aether duelist or arcane duelists. then add medic or chemist i pefer medic because i want SE have time improve summoner. gambler could add too we got alot pirate run around so a gamble job seem a likely possiblity a point.

They are not and never will do another Ninja job release like they did in ARR where they released Ninja mid expansion.

Nobody wants to get rid of Blue Mage (except for a few). However what I am saying is that Blue Mage can stay while Limited Job has to go. There are two different things Blue Mage is a job and not a content. Limited Job is a system and is not content. A job is a way to experience content rather itself being the content and is in no way shape or form directly related to the Limited Job system other than being housed in it. It can be moved to be a normal job and nothing will be gone. Everything exclusively for Blue Mage will still be there when it does become a normal job. Limited Job on the other hand is useless, it is a copy and paste of the Normal Job system but worse. I rather have the developers spend more time and resources on making actual jobs and content and not on exclusive content or limited jobs as there is no point in pursuing to improve the Limited Job system every update for Blue Mage at this time of the post has only been for Blue Mage and not the Limited Job system.

So, lets just make a bunch of new limited jobs so they can queue together for old content and be irrelevant from day 1. Woohoo!

Limited Jobs is useless, as there is no point in developing it or adding to the game. It’ll be budget, time and resources wasted on a failed system, whereas if they made it as a normal job Blue Mage will live longer, the exclusive content it has will die within 1 or 2 weeks but that goes almost for any content in the game nowadays except for raids and ultimates of the current tier. This is what Blue Mage is like now, it dies in 1 or 2 weeks and nothing. It would have been much better as a normal job with what it has now.

Get rid of the limited job system and make it a normal job, as all the exclusive content will still be there just like how Fisher has its own exclusive content like Ocean Fishing. I will repeat a point I already have said. Jobs are a way to experience content not content itself or even filler content itself.

[Mariel_Crystallie]

So, lets just make a bunch of new limited jobs so they can queue together for old content and be irrelevant from day 1. Woohoo!

well maybe if they make a new limited job the can act as role , so limited job can be used for ultimate content and having their own LB... but still I prefer them to remove it instead making it this way and making more complicated.

[Alysella]

So, lets just make a bunch of new limited jobs so they can queue together for old content and be irrelevant from day 1. Woohoo!

It's what happening now. Full party of blue mage clearing old contents. If they are going to add another, it will probably BST and it will be a waste if they making another set of contents for more limited class instead of just adding another normal classes

[TeraTyrantShadic]

Let's be real here...

Limited Job was meant to promote freedom of job creativity.

It doesn't and it is proven because there is no job gauge or anything new being done to Blue Mage other than new spells which is just basic gist of Blue Mage and not being creative. All they have done to add new spells is reusing old animations and adjusting the effects. The other exclusive stuff is just basic content filler. Blue Mage Log, Hunting Log 2.0 but instead of X amount of mobs to hunt you now have to clear every past dungeon as an all BLU party (As if an All Tank/Heal/DPS party hasn't been done before as a past fun time in Party Finder). Seriously they just made a past time community activity into an official activity with rewards, which really isn't a step up in creativity. I mean we have seen all Paladin parties for raids back then in HW. Masked Carnival, that is new but its just adding on new stages by new stages and it is more of a content island exclusively for Blue Mage which I don't mind.

Limited Job are less suited for party-based content

Two things... Spells that involves another party member and achievements and Blue Mage log. Seriously nothing more needed to be said. It is slowly being integrated into group content and eventually it'll fit as a normal job that has the ability to customize its skill set.

Limited Jobs are intended for players that want to play solo

Masked Carnival? Sure! Old content synced? No and clearing the dungeon past 25 minutes or longer (while synced) doesn't count. Plus with the ability to learn spells at a 100% rate in a group of any composition as long there is one Blue Mage and the duty is synced, only the Blue Mage in that party will learn the spell and the learn rate is a guarantee. So now we are slowly starting to move Blue Mage into doing group content as a party.

Honestly speaking, dropping Limited Job System is a better idea since there is nothing worthwhile to invest into. Blue Mage content will still be there even when it becomes normal, since the Masked Carnival can be balanced to the Job itself and really doesn't affect anyone. As for the achievements, it'll still be there mainly cause Blue Mage is capable with all three roles even after it is balanced. Plus they didn't adjust the old raids to fit an all Blue Mage party when they release the 5.15 Blue Mage patch, so after the job has been balanced it can still obtain the achievement. If you're worried about these exclusive achievements and content gone. Don't be, it'll still be there. They are in no way related to the Limited Job, rather more related to Blue Mage itself. It is like moving your furniture from one apartment to another, where the Blue Mage and it's exclusive content are the furniture and the house the Limited Job system. You move to a new house for a better one, so I think it is time for Blue Mage move out and live in a better house which is the Normal Job system.

As for beastmaster, we already have a foundation to work with, the mobs from Bozja and Summoner. If you want the laziest idea possible then think of Beastmaster as Summoner except without the spells and replaced with a hand axe weapon skills and egi assault replaced with bestial assault. Plus most of Beastmaster's ability will be directly related to pet.

[Volsungr]

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Job gauge is the new addition for stormblood, however we haven't see the Blue mage level 70 update yet, so let's count on that.

the achievement can stay as well if they wishes so, think of it as a challenge that can be done, it's not unheard of to have full tank party (recently there was full tank ucob run) or solo heal run, so 8 blue mage content won't be as weird as it seems even when it become a normal job later on.

[Mariel_Crystallie]

It's what happening now. Full party of blue mage clearing old contents. If they are going to add another, it will probably BST and it will be a waste if they making another set of contents for more limited class instead of just adding another normal classes

really not an optimal approach right now. what with the dev team working on FFXVI again, upcoming raid and (possibly) ultimate, if there is one. it's unwise to spread the dev team thin. even working on only blue mage limited at the moment is already taxing enough. doubt they'll do more.

[Volsungr]

really not an optimal approach right now. what with the dev team working on FFXVI again, upcoming raid and (possibly) ultimate, if there is one. it's unwise to spread the dev team thin. even working on only blue mage limited at the moment is already taxing enough. doubt they'll do more.

i think the developing division on XVI are unrelated to XIV (or at least i hope so). atm They're just struggling with the covid drawbacks atm and just trying to handle the delay that happened this patch. Which actually surprise me they announced the update to blue mage at all makes me wonder if they could've designed bozjan better or make more content were bluemage didn't get the special treatment as a limited job and rather gets updated every expansion instead like normal job.