Thread: Choose The Next Three Jobs for 4.0

Originally Posted by LukeStuz

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So where does it say "the developers have ruled out Blue Mage"?

To Quote: "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."

Whilst it was not directly said, it is eluded to that the style of play required to bring the most out of Blue Mage clashes with the style of play required for FFXIV, effectively ruling out the class, unless you'd like to see it implemented in a way that people would cry as being broken, leading to my favourite call "Make it as it was in XI".

Originally Posted by Zebyxus

To Quote: "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."

Whilst it was not directly said, it is eluded to that the style of play required to bring the most out of Blue Mage clashes with the style of play required for FFXIV, effectively ruling out the class, unless you'd like to see it implemented in a way that people would cry as being broken, leading to my favourite call "Make it as it was in XI".

But the problem is, you flat out stated that they would never bring Blue mage to FFXIV, all yoshi said was, it was hard to work with in a mmorpg but he still would like to work on it

"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 comes to 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."

so there's a yes and no, as balance issues is what he's concerned with but at the same time he's seeing how he could potentially bring BLU into FFXIV

3 classes I personally would love to see.

- Calculator DPS/Healer? (from FFT): A casting class that benefits largely from having levels in multiple jobs! Calculators are famous (or infamous?) for being a broken class in FFT but I love the concept of casting with target parameters based on an equation.

- Vikings Tank : Similar to a warrior, but they do have access to water/thunder based abilities.

- Geomancer DPS: I've always thought the concept was interesting, and the geomancer is absolutely different from other dps classes.

I would love to see
Time Mage: healer focus on hot, and debuff ot with the ability to slow, speed up and consume all tick

Samurai: tank focus on buff and debuff or may be even parry once it got fix

No DPS since we already have more than enough variety atm

Following by Dancer: healer, issue with it, feel very weird to see male roe dancer, no offence

Because when you read their reply on the matter, it can be reasonably taken as "I'd like to, but no". Besides, we all know that the devs will do what they will without our interjection on the matters they tackle, so they may very well prove me wrong, in which case I would be glad to say I'm wrong, but until then I still find it a reasonable stance to take that BLU will not be a part of this game.

DANCER! give us that drain samba! i also liked the chemist idea for a healer. beastmaster/hunter sounds amazing aswell!

Doma (Far Eastern/Japanese Flavored expansion)
1.) Blue Mage (Magic DPS like in FF11)
2.) Samurai (Tank/Uses a lot of Procs)
3.) Dancer (Melee Healer)

1. Samurai - strictly dps...just because both other users of the most common weapon in all rpgs...are tanks. (and I seriously hope that ff11 chick who got lost/seperated from Vanadiel isnt planning on sticking around to be the sam mentor with *cringe*..a spear. 2h katana onry!) Please please don't try to be cute and imaginative on this one >_> Stick to the tried and true ideology here.
2.Amazon/ Barbarian- Utilizes club/ hammer-type weapons. Similar to ff11s bst but more pt-friendly.
3. Any mage job. *shrug* Fartmage. Works best with a blm or mch.