How would a Blue Mage work in XIV?

[Chasely]

I think BLU would work similarly to SCH or SMN. You'd fight a monster via your job quest. Then, you'd be able to select a stance. That stance would give you 5 skills (because more than 5 buttons is too hard for players!). Those five monster skills would be TP moves from whichever monster you'd killed in your job quest.
Like, you could get a Couerl job which allows for AoE stun, a conal attack form the front, your basic attacks would change to swipe and bite (needs an oxford comma), and then you'd get a self-buff of some kind. Maybe an attack or evasion boost.

Malboro stance would give you (not so) bad breath, (which would maybe be 2-3 random debuffs with no additional damage), a vine basic attack, an AoE root attack, maybe a head butt attack or something and something else.

Then, you could have like, a Mandragora job or something to round them out. It could have an AoE sleep, a headbutt attack, a self-heal, etc.

Each job would have an AoE, a debuff, a few basic attacks and a self-buff/heal.

That's how I see SE implementing the job.

[Estellios]

no one would be satisfied with the limitations of this batle system. a gimped, nerfed blue,
it would be a lot like blm is today. like 5% of what makes a blm a blm.

I forgot that we need 700 spells that do the exact same thing in a different color to feel like blm is deep.

BLU can be versatile with 20-ish skills just fine, it's usually had that many skills in older FFs.

[Prototype909]

BLU would just be a gimp DPS with only a bare semblance of that makes BLU well... BLU

Just like how Summoner is just a DoT class with the illusion of being an actual Summoner

[C-croft]

I just want Spirits Without.

[Eidolon]

Blue Mage: You have to clear FATE's in order to unlock your skills, but it's a 1% chance for each skill to unlock per FATE cleared. Not only that, but you have to be actively working on a single skill at a time - none of this casual 'work on any ATMA at your leisure.' stuffs.

Then they need to have you do each dungoun for a 1% chance at each of those boss skills, because - hell, low-level dungeons aren't being run enough.

Then, they need to give you a .00001% chance when running end-game content to get a new skill from a boss such as a smaller version of ADS's high Voltage, or Cadeuceus' hood swing.

[Tupsi]

With this battle system? The traditional FF Blue Mage won't work - The somewhat traditional but different FFXI Blue Mage wouldn't work either - It would be extremely limited and probably have just whatever base class (most likely Gladiator) skills, then 1 heal, 1 nuke, 1 debuff, 1 buff and "2hr" skill which could likely present you a list of skills to use (similar to khimari) if they decide each job can have their own unique UI like FFXI did for some (e.g Puppetmaster, Blue Mage.)

However, with the "standard mmo" battle design, it probably won't work since how many MMOs have you actually seen that actually has a "Blue Mage" or equivillent?

[Exodus-E]

I think BLU would work similarly to SCH or SMN. You'd fight a monster via your job quest. Then, you'd be able to select a stance. That stance would give you 5 skills (because more than 5 buttons is too hard for players!). Those five monster skills would be TP moves from whichever monster you'd killed in your job quest.
Like, you could get a Couerl job which allows for AoE stun, a conal attack form the front, your basic attacks would change to swipe and bite (needs an oxford comma), and then you'd get a self-buff of some kind. Maybe an attack or evasion boost.

Malboro stance would give you (not so) bad breath, (which would maybe be 2-3 random debuffs with no additional damage), a vine basic attack, an AoE root attack, maybe a head butt attack or something and something else.

Then, you could have like, a Mandragora job or something to round them out. It could have an AoE sleep, a headbutt attack, a self-heal, etc.

Each job would have an AoE, a debuff, a few basic attacks and a self-buff/heal.

That's how I see SE implementing the job.

I've been thinking about this for quite some time, and I came up with something similar, yet different from what you just proposed:

Make their job-specific skills be like "stances" or "styles" (ie. Physical-Style, Magical-Style or Support-Style) that would call upon a Blue Magic-Bar, -similar to the Arcanist/Summoner/Scholar's Pet Bar-, from which you could use Blue Magic skills.

Also, by switching into a Blue Mage, its regular first damaging skill could be altered, so whenever you hit an enemy, you could learn a new Blue Magic to add to a particular style.

That's how I'd have solved it, anyways.

[Alpheus]

Obviously its gonna be quite different from FFXI's BLU but I do hope that they continue with FFXI's aesthetic of what a BLU looks like. It gave the class a lot of visual character since before then the job was either tied to specific individuals (FFVI, FFVIII-FFX) or was FFV's domino mask and cape and i think a unique aesthetic is very important for a job who's defining characteristic is really the signature attacks of other beings.

[DoubleT]

I don't think it would work at all, and I doubt we will ever see Blue Mage in FFXIV given the nature of content and abilities. Most mobs use the same skills/spells that players already do. And SE already said earlier (can't find the link, but if I do I'll attach it) that they never meant players to have access to mob-specific abilities. I believe they used Haste as an example of how that skill wouldn't work in FFXIV's trinity set-up without being OP, so it will never be a player spell. From a balance stand-point the limit in the number of abilities a job has access too would hurt as well.

huh? the only mobs that use player abilities are humanoid mobs that also have classes/jobs. also there are many mobs already in game that use signature blu spells. an as to the rest of your stuff about what has been said in the past about is not true either. I have been around in this game since 1.0 beta an follow all the live letters an interviews, an the only they ever said about haste was close to 2.0 release they said that haste is not in game yet due to them not having a good method to introduce it with this current combat system, but that they would still be open to putting in gear with "haste-like" traits on it in the future. and as to blu, yoshi has said himself that the first jobs that he wants to put in the game are thf, nin, msk, rdm, an blu. seeing as how it looks like we r getting thf & nin next patch an possibly msk, i would guess rdm an blu r not far off in the future either.

[Seif]

We probably won't be seeing jobs the way you think about ff jobs unless they happen to fit the three roles of arr.

Something like rdm just wouldn't be a healer nor a tank so if we get it, the role will still be either a tank or a healer with just the rdm visuals.
It makes more sense to ask stuff like corsair or nin because that way everybody won't feel let down by the results.


I would love to see something as deep and complex as PUP but given how much it would need to be dumbed down for arr roles it just wouldn't be the same in any way.