So... that spiderman shirt... (new job tease)

[Dorander]

The last interview I recall him talking about BLU was half a year or more ago. Is there a more recent one he talks about it by chance? I'd have no qualms with a solo-esque approach to acquiring blue magic spells. I just don't think people should focus on all the recurring spells BLU tends to have, and where they exist in XIV, as they always tend to have a large repertoire of game specific spells anyway.

Here's a tiny reddit thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/comme...and_blue_mage/

I'm still looking for the article or video they are referencing. I'll edit and link as soon as I find it.

Found the old one, it was in the live letter posted in 2014, this is what he said:

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.