Add Blue Mages Already

[GavynG]

Been waiting/hoping for Blue Mage for 4 years now.

Don't care what anyone thinks about the job, just add it already. We all know you're creative enough to implement it somehow.

So yeah. Come on.

I could be dead by time you release it. You know, like from a car accident or a plane crashing on me.

That would suck.

[Dualgunner]

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[Tint]

why does everyone wants Blue Mage to be a tank? we already have PLD and DRK as tanks with magic stuff, now BLM as well? :O

...wait a moment... we already have BLM... how would we call Blue Mage then?

[Jandor]

why does everyone wants Blue Mage to be a tank? we already have PLD and DRK as tanks with magic stuff, now BLM as well? :O

...wait a moment... we already have BLM... how would we call Blue Mage then?

BLU

Same as FFXI, in that respect at least.

[TaiyoShikasu]

why does everyone wants Blue Mage to be a tank? we already have PLD and DRK as tanks with magic stuff, now BLM as well? :O

...wait a moment... we already have BLM... how would we call Blue Mage then?

Not really enough healing and support blue magic in the series to draw from to make it a healer and people would argue there's already lots of DPS jobs in the game in comparison to tanks and healers.

[Starcake28]

Omg stop already u guy trying to broken a class tht made FF11 the hit blue mage is a alround class but it cant be a healer it cant be a tank blue mage is a dps and should always be a dps look at drk u already mess tht class up Don't broken blu the same way thy need to find a way to make blu like FF11 or do this give blu a sword for auto action close range damage but make some of blu spells instant cast like head butt thn some tht has cast time thy Don't really need the weapon skills but if thy want to put weapon skills on blue mage look at how thy did pvp weapon skills thy could put thm like tht whn u use a weapon skill tht skill switch to other weapon skills u hve 3 weapon skills on 1 slot like a combo but u can switch to other weapon skill slots to if u Don't understand wat i'm talking abt play SAM in pvp

[Rongway]

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[RuleofThree]

I think, given the stale 'everything feels the same' state of the game as it is, they would butcher blue mage so badly it wouldn't even be fun. Blue mage is suppose to learn the skills of the enemy that uses such against him...which would mean they would get FAR MORE abilities than the usual 30(ish) that every job has...which clearly isn't gonna happen. So out of the plethora of enemy abilities you could learn...you are only going to get a fraction of them...which limits the limitless possibilities of blue mage. They probably won't even be cool abilities either, like a Morbol's bad breath, or a cockatrices petrify...it will just be your standard run of the mill abilities that pretty much recycled from other abilities.

...but then again...I'm probably the only guy playing this game that actually doesn't want more jobs found in the next expansion.

[Rongway]

why does everyone wants Blue Mage to be a tank?

I can't speak for others but for me at least, it's the same reason I think we need a fan DNC as the next healer.

There's nothing they can do with another DoM healer and DoW tank that won't make people go, "but we already have three other jobs that do this same stuff." Though PLD and DRK have some magic, all three tanks are heavy armor bladed weapon jobs. If we want something fresh, it'll have to be something that is not a heavy armor bladed weapon job, and blue mage could satisfy that nicely as a DoM in cloth/leather wielding a club or whip.

Whatever they decide to do, the next healer needs to be a DoW and the next tank needs to be a DoM. Everyone who wants to play the current style of healer and tank is already playing it. If they keep the split along Discipline lines, it won't draw any new people to the roles. Crossing Discipline lines will draw people who aren't already playing tanks and heals, because the new jobs would satisfy different personalities and playstyles.

[Seraphor]

Snip.

This.

In addition is the Blue Magic spellset to take into account.

There's not enough healing magic in there to warrant making it a healer, and while it could potentially be a utility DPS, we already have that in RDM, and nobody wants BLU to be a RDM clone.

The Blue Magic set actually lends itself very well to being a Tank. You have a good mix of mitigation and utility, and the damaging spells would thematically suit aggro generation as being flashy 'stolen' moves.