Blue mage pls

[cheolsu]

Shanoa. The best blue mage ^_^

[RubyCirha]

Someday maybe when we get viera and dancer and clouds bike (i mean the gave us a bike type mount already so why not) and new face types and horn/ear types and more tail types and i just realised this turned in to a wishlist instead of a response to the op but yea blue mage would be cool

[cheolsu]

no, no. you totally got the point. gotta dream big ^_~

[Laerune]

Seeing how SE released 2 jobs this time, I reckon the next expansion will have 2 jobs aswell. Since Healers and Tanks did not get a new job this expansion, one would expect the new jobs to fill those roles, but I just can not magine SE not releasing a new DPS class. Then there is the interviews where Yoshida has said many times that he wants an orginal FFXIV job to be added to the game. So while I do hope that Blue Mage is added to the game, I think the chances of seeing Blue Mage (unless the new orignal FFXIV job is a mix of Blue Mage and something else) are slim to none.

[Lilseph]

I loved The Order of Ecclesia. I'm looking forward to Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night!

About Blue Mage. I think this is the last piece of info we got? Afaik

Q: I love the blue mage job that appears in the FINAL FANTASY series. Will the blue mage job ever be implemented in FFXIV?

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 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.

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[Cakekizyy]

I loved The Order of Ecclesia. I'm looking forward to Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night!

About Blue Mage. I think this is the last piece of info we got? Afaik


Source: Here

It worked well in XI. Maybe they could do something's ng similar and maybe abilities equipped could determine role you queue as.

[Ramath]

Don't kid yourself. BLU did not work well in XI. There were only an extremely limited number of spells you actually used. The rest were only used for unlocking traits. The rest, never used at all. SE just got done with their attempt at pruning unused abilities, and you want to add more?!

Second, again, don't kid yourself. Choice in an MMO is a lie and a myth. The playerbase will find the most optimal combination of a spell list, making any other combo a source for elitists to talk down to anyone else. The players wi then complain that X spell is too weak, and never used, etc etc etc...

The truth is that Yoshi, while not percect, knows a whole lot more about game design than 99.9% of these self-proclaimed armchair devs. They have no idea what they are talking about, completelg clueless to the fact they don't even know what they are asking for.

[Alacran]

We need to find what shirt would be representative of Blue Mage.

Suggestion for Blue mage weapon Sword Whip, possibly paired with another.

[Kazrah]

Everything in this post.

Pretty much my sentiments on the matter. Even the concept I did nearly a year and a half ago was a shot in the dark compared to what devs would be able to cook up, but I was almost positive that it couldn't, wouldn't and rightfully shouldn't work like how it did in XI because of the reasons listed in Ramath's post.

Yoshi knows his game better than any of us ever will, and that's exactly why he has said repeatedly now that BLU will never be a thing.

[Enla]

In order to do blue mage justice you'd have to learn your spells via grinding enemies and let's face it, how many people aside from the die hard progression minded people are actually going to bother grinding to get their entire kit? Having your spells just given to you via quest negates the entire point of the class as well so that's not a viable workaround.