How Blue Mage Could Exist in FFXIV

[Metsonm]

Blue magic has been a pretty mixed bad in most games but they haven't been restricted by the trinity or the need to balance the skills so they could make it a healer but I think getting it to actually work would involve adding in a lot of mundane skills that would probably break the idea of the class (might be a good class ingame).

Yeah, it's covered buffs, debuffs, healing, general support, and damage all pretty comfortably. The thing is we have to look at more than FFXI for what it can and can't do, and Starcake seems pretty set on only pulling from there.

Apparently, there's a "leak" that suggested we might get BLU in 4.5. I'd take that with a grain of salt, however. The same leak said it'd be a DPS class.

There's been some data pulled from a patch a little while back that shows it's been worked on, too. It looks like it was the only new class in the change-log which suggests it could be coming early, but nobody knows how the devs really work so I wouldn't get my hopes up. The same mine also had an unnamed, placeholder class that had spots for caster DPS gear and role actions. So while it's not a 100% confirmation, it seems pretty firmly set.

[Starcake28]

Having a really hard time parsing what you're trying to say here.

Sorry wat i said was tht FF11 battle system made it where all classes could tank in FF11 whn u hit lvl 70+ but ppl believe tht blue mage could tank i bet if u play blue mage at lvl 15 - 55 trying to tank you would die everytime because blue mage wasn't a tank at all you looking at traits etc thy got from monsters in game but till there not real tanks Tht's all i'm trying to say same for healing go play blue mage u will see wat i'm talking abt if anything blue mage started off ass dps thn later became a support role but thy still wasn't a big support role thy mostly had spells to keep thm self alive if u look at there spells correctly...

[Reynhart]

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Could you please use punctuation marks, it's really hard to read ? Thanks.

[Metsonm]

I mean, just playing Devil's Advocate here, but you could totally use blue magic as your primary healing force in a fair few FF games. White Wind, Angel's Whisper, and Mighty Guard are pretty strong.

[jameseoakes]

I mean, just playing Devil's Advocate here, but you could totally use blue magic as your primary healing force in a fair few FF games. White Wind, Angel's Whisper, and Mighty Guard are pretty strong.

Blue magic has been a pretty mixed bad in most games but they haven't been restricted by the trinity or the need to balance the skills so they could make it a healer but I think getting it to actually work would involve adding in a lot of mundane skills that would probably break the idea of the class (might be a good class ingame).

[Krokov]

Better inform me OP if he hasn't seen it already.

[Baka_Neko1]

i mean it could work where there's a whole bunch of skills and you slot them and get different traits and playstyles. could also have "healer/tank/dps" setlists with different abilities slotted for each one depending on what you want to queue as and be unable to change on the fly.

[Starcake28]

So i was right blue mage gunblade which thy showed in tht shadowbringers trailer and dark knight getting revamp and i also said thy may add it before 5.0 lol and u hve to learn skills from enemy yaaaa so Tht's a plus but question is. Blue mage looking like black mage alittle bit unless There is a sword inside tht weapon he using also from tht video it almost like like white mage play style hope i'm wrong but will see soon

[Bigsby]

I'm hoping it works something like logograms as fsr as how you hunt for spells. I also hope that blu has no role, but that you pick a role when you're equipping your spells. They could have tank dps and healer spells and then nuetral spells too plus access to whatever role actions for the role they selected. And I hope they do something like in xi with spell combo job traits and also how setting spells works with a certain amount of points you can set and different spells being worth different points. They could also have a free role mode that lets you set any spell regardless of role if you have enough points or whatever to set it, but you can't equip role actions. Honestly I think just a ffxiv retrofit to the way the ffxi blu works now will be the best way to implement it in this game

[Astarotha]

my one apprehension atm is IF (well know more tonight) blum doesnt have a way to slot into the triad for df/pf then lacking access to group content like dungeons and raids effectively prevents them from having access to many cool gear glams and epic fights with friends, im really curious and happy with what ive seen so far though cause it fits well with my idea of interchangeable slots

ok, its slotted as dps which is good, but im really sad blue mage cant do anything in df, please can you please find a way to lift those restrictions in the future?

my thoughts are something like building essentially a deck for those contents with certain slots like "cone aoe attack" "ranged burst aoe" "burst aoe" you need to fill, that would let you choose from a variety of attacks youve learned, but once youre in a party you will have your bases covered, that way "THE META" creep is minimized, it still rewards the exploration and collection blue mage is well known for, and allows them to participate in the larger game