Add Blue Mages Already

[Duskane]

as nice as Blue mage would be as a tank it will most likely be a DPS with two swords

[Seraphor]

But then why not call it an Artificer or Devicer or the like, and go whole hog with its unique take, rather than subsume/pervert a distinct aesthetic?

We'll there's two routes they can go.
A full on Blue Mage like you want, or they can do what they did with Time Mage, bundle it in with another job as additional flavour.

It would predominantly be a magitek job, even called 'Magitek Knight' or something. But it's signature would be absorbing the powers of eikons and reusing them through it's magitek. This allows it a unique weaponskill set bolstered by Blue magic cooldowns.

If they really aren't going to do a real blue mage, then this would be the best way of getting it in there, just like time magic with AST.

[SleepyNeko]

Didn't the leaked info already stated that BLU will be a Melee support dps?

[Duskane]

Didn't the leaked info already stated that BLU will be a Melee support dps?

Yes a person who has been getting everything about msq and patches right said viera new race,Gun blade tank,dancer healer and blue mage dps
As credible they might be but best to wait till it's set in stone

[Reinhardt_Azureheim]

Yes a person who has been getting everything about msq and patches right said viera new race,Gun blade tank,dancer healer and blue mage dps
As credible they might be but best to wait till it's set in stone

The same leaker who leaked the alphascape bosses? o.ō

[TaiyoShikasu]

...what...? Quite a lot, actually. I can name more than 30 quite quickly, if I didn't feel it was an utter waste of time.

Besides, what's the point of calling a person that can only learn a hard cap of 'x' abilities a blue mage anyway? It would be a gimp.

Outside of XI and even then, blue mage has always had a hard cap on abilities unless you want to share that knowledge of how let's say Quina can learn more than the 24 abilities available to them. Most of which would be useless in an MMO.

And those people you "know" who'd want level based abilities are awful as they'd be useless in most content.

[Duskane]

The same leaker who leaked the alphascape bosses? o.ō

Yeah "adam and eve"

[Jandor]

Yeah "adam and eve"

The name was wrong, but close enough to be credible IMHO.

[Duskane]

The name was wrong, but close enough to be credible IMHO.

it was just a nickname/code name fairly certain
but definitely has provided enough info to not be considered a fib at this point

[Seraphor]

it was just a nickname/code name fairly certain
but definitely has provided enough info to not be considered a fib at this point

But it's clearly not first hand info. It could be what they're currently working on, but it's not garranteed to be correct, or that development won't change. With absolutely nothing announced yet regarding 5.0, and still over 6 months away, they could still change things around.