So...About Blue Mage

[aveyond-dreams]

Blue Mage's barrier to entry to me is as follows:

I do not feel like having a max level player carry me through 70 levels is a fun levelling experience. Levelling any full job by any other means is a step up no how you choose to do it.

FFXIV's overworld is such a joke that I refuse to level solo in it.

Most of FFXIV's Blue Mage skills are useless outside the ones locked behind trials and dungeons.

I do not have 10 hours to wait in party finder to hunt down other Blue Mages to clear content with or learn spells after the 2 week period after their update patch ends. Because at that point no one will play Blue Mage.

Not even unlocking Bozja on my alts was this annoying. And all this for content that isn't even new, these are all old fights released years ago. What they needed to do was make whatever compromises they decided to do for jobs like Red Mage/Dark Knight etc in order to fit them into FFXIV instead of releasing one-off half-baked products like current Blue Mage. If you cannot see the links between what happened with people defending BLU and then going on to defend the state of Viera/Hrothgar until even their patience was exhausted, then I do not know what to tell you.

Limited time events in mobile games have more longevity than the bursts of activity Blue Mage gets in FFXIV, and at least I can carry those rewards into the rest of the game and have them mean something for the most part. Of all the controversial decisions made during that period of troubles in late 2018/early 2019, Blue Mage is the last of those still standing after they started learning their lessons regarding the races and how to handle exploration content. I look forward to the day that they hopefully figure out what to do with Blue Mage instead of wasting time copy-pasting more animations for abilities that have 0 functional difference between them.