Thread: Blue mage at patch 4.5

Originally Posted by Beckett

So... don't give them game breaking abilities..?

Wouldn't be possible, else they might just be a discount Blue Mage when the abilities they get from monsters aren't working the same way like the monsters'.

"Here's a list of jobs you guys really, really, really want and we might give you some of them, but you won't really be able to play them because this is still an MMO and you have dungeons in the MSQ!"

Originally Posted by BillyKaplan

"Here's a list of jobs you guys really, really, really want and we might give you some of them, but you won't really be able to play them because this is still an MMO and you have dungeons in the MSQ!"

It does say premade parties are allowed, though, so... if you have a group of 4, you should still be able to do them. Not ideal, and I really am not sure they understood that in "trying to make people happy by giving them BLU at all although they can't balance it" they're just really making everyone unhappy, but I expected it to be 100% solo, can't even access the duty list. So, that's something.

No other game could ever balance blue magic in a multiplayer setting though, it's very very hard.

yes yes I know XI was hardly balanced but still

If they couldn’t make it work like a real job they should have just developed something else

So basically Blue Mage is dead content they're wasting money on because they're incompetent. Between this and the server reshuffling, what I way to butcher the expansion hype.

Originally Posted by Bourne_Endeavor

So basically Blue Mage is dead content they're wasting money on because they're incompetent. Between this and the server reshuffling, what I way to butcher the expansion hype.

When everything is so finely tuned and balanced (to them) that any sort of shake up can disturb the balance, they do crap like this. Scared to develop something with depth and actually look at real balance in fights and interactions between player abilities and monsters.

And no access to Duty Finder, Roulette, PvP and Deep Dungeon for them, either.

(Pre-formed parties still work, though.)

So the (possible) Gunblade class could be a DPS and still wouldn't make a big hit on queues.