Blue Mage tank???

[Drtoxicmedica]

Pld has 2 spells that scale off of skill speed and strength that are white magic. Red mages vercure scales off of int even tho it's white magic. Why exactly would it be so hard to scale blu's spells off of strength for sake of balance?

[Seku]

They made DRK into a tank. Not seeing a problem with a BLU tank.

[Nabian]

They made DRK into a tank. Not seeing a problem with a BLU tank.

Cecil from FFIV was already a DRK tank. Them saying they made "DRK" into a tank isn't really saying much.

[CYBEReris]

It would be nice if Mighty Guard weren't already taken by the tank limit break, it would be a really suitable tank stance for this idea. Big Guard is also a thing but it's nowhere near as prevalent in the series.

[Duskane]

Take a popular job and put it on a role that lacks players
Drk helped and so will blue

[Claire_Pendragon]

Take a popular job and put it on a role that lacks players
Drk helped and so will blue

According to Yoshida, the amount it helped was practically not at all.
(So I'd assume something less than or equal to 1% difference)

For my own story on being a tank or not;
I was WAR in 1.0, then switched to PLD when i got it to 50 in 2.0.
I was starting to play BLM, WHM, and DRG more than PLD near the end of 2.0, but then when DRK came out, I mained it for all of HW.
So in my case, it made me stay on tank, but I had already played tank, but not fully.

Then 3.0 DRK changes made me hate it, and slightly WHM.
I took up RDM, and now i dont really touch WHM or DRK.
WAR is pretty fun now, honestly feels like an easier version of RDM, and RDM is already easy. (I enjoy easy, I dont get mental fatigued after 15-30mins of raiding, like I do as DRK and other jobs)

But unless they ruin RDM, and they will, they cant keep something fun, I dont see myself maining WAR.
I doubt Id main BLU either, but I do wanna mess around with it. They would have to do something pretty darn cool, for me to main it.

So honestly I think its more complex than "More people will tank if BLU can be a tank".
At most, we'd see a small % increase, but nothing really noticeable, other than people who level it for the 1st, time, and then are done with it. (Which isnt bad honestly, thats queues that get done.)

[Duskane]

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Yes most people who tried drk and ast were already tank and healer players
But there was a small margin like myself who started tanking and healing because of Drk and Ast,
And to fill up a unpopular role even a little bit is better then nothing,

And not sure how they will ruin RDM when its already bottom of the barrel
Brings nothing but a quick rez ,stale gameplay,extremely simple
But i guess ruining rdm for you is giving the job the slightest bit of depth.

A small % increase to tank/heal is better then more dps bloat.

[Claire_Pendragon]

A small % increase to tank/heal is better then more dps bloat.

If creating content happened in a vacuum w/o cost, yes.
You realize Yoshi looks at the cost of resources to make such content, and then decides if its going to increase the number of subscriptions and expansion purchases, right?
Not if it increases the number of tanks by some small 1% or less.

[Jonnycbad]

Regardless of their lore and "learning" mechanic, the spells won't deviate much outside the current tool kit of their role. If they're casters, they will fundamentally have spells that are similar to BLM/SMN/RDM, e.g. direct damage, dot, procs, etc. The "learning" aspect will likely occur inside of job quests rather than in the open world (for obvious reasons) and involve "get hit with X attack Y times" or whatever. I doubt BLU will be a tank because the word MAGE is in their name and mages wear casting/healing gear and tanks wear fending gear. It would look weird for a MAGE to be casting spells wearing THIS: .

[Claire_Pendragon]

It would look weird for a MAGE to be casting spells wearing THIS: .

While not that set, i can already wear armor as a mage, as i have quite a few platemail armor sets. (some from 1.0, Dated gear can be applied to all jobs, including the Lv40-49 platemails from dungeons)