about blue mage

[winxbloom61]

Okay square enix you said the following
A: I think that blue mage is an interesting job because you can learn spells from enemies, but honestly I don't think that it really fits MMORPG party settings.


1st blue mage works in mmorpgs fine works great in ffxi no proplems

2nd the only reason you wouldnt add blue mage is because the skill system and the way you learn skills just plain out sucks for a final fantasy game and it wouldn't allow the full strength of a blue mage

3rd off if your not going to add blue mage give the dragoon the 3 breath attacks that makes final fantasy awesome aqua breath,bad breath and fire breath.

[Exstal]

1st - FFXI and no problems, are contradictory terms.
2nd - because we have a trinity it has to fit something which excludes some other skills (White Wind, Mighty Guard, etc)
3rd - that's a dumb suggestion

[Duelle]

2nd - because we have a trinity it has to fit something which excludes some other skills (White Wind, Mighty Guard, etc)

Well, Mighty Guard is a tank LB so that's also out. And you're right, White Wind would be OP if it was given to a tank or DPS. Even with a long cooldown.

3rd - that's a dumb suggestion

Verily.

[Gralna]

First off, you took only a portion of reply and responded out of context, here is the full answer, if it's too long for you to read then that's your own fault

A: I think that blue mage is an interesting job because you can learn spells from enemies, but honestly I don't think that it really fits MMORPG party settings. If anything, I think it would work solo and it would be really fun to implement it as a job where you go around and learn abilities from every monster, so I'd definitely like to try and do this, but I'm concerned when it comesto playing in a party players would put up barriers if you haven't learned certain abilities. Additionally, in the event you are able to use abilities forever once you learn them, the difficulty of learning abilities would be high, and we wouldn't be able to balance the system so it wouldn't revolve around procuring your abilities instead of equipment. This wouldn't be practical enough to fit in an MMORPG party setting and conversely if you are swapping in only certain abilities you've learned, the true image of a blue mage would diminish, so this is something that I am concerned with.

[DoubleT]

if it's too long for you to read then that's your own fault

tldr: its still on the drawing board phase, quit your crying people

[Volsung]

Blue mage could easily be done. Just pick a role (DD more than likely)
and work it accordingly. It doesn't need to be everything like in XI.
It could focus DD and have some support stuff (poor healing, debuffs).
any heals or buffs added could easily be utilised by a healing job
that splits in another direction.

Probably have DD a bit higher than a bards while in song mode, and offer
more utility, just different kinds.

[Exstal]

I wonder if people actually know what the meaning of "easily" is.　I see it thrown around a lot and I believe they don't know what the word means or have a vastly different definition from what normal people would have.

[winxbloom61]

its not that hard to build a blue mage pretty easy

35- Bad breath
40- Goblin punch (uses no tp or mp and long cd for balance)
45- Aqua breath
50 - White wind or 400 thorns or something ( a less powerfull 1000 thorns)

[Exstal]

What a horribly boring class. But it'd still be Blue Mage.　If that's all you want out of it, then yes、 it's easy to make. Just give it all random potency skills and flash graphics and away you go.

[Jinrya-Geki]

It cause of SE stupid battle system and abilities being so limited. They need to redo it all again, because hearing answers like this for Blue Mage is really getting old.

"We don't know how to implement it."

"The servers can't handle the load."

"Ps3 doesn't have the memory to handle that."

"It's ready now, but it doesn't feel right implementing now"

Or the infamous "This is how it's going to be" "That's not what I meant"

3 Years Jesus Christ pick yourselves up already, or get a new team again.