Thread: Blue mage at patch 4.5

Originally Posted by Berethos

The Carnivale system is not in the game already, not sure where you think you're seeing it.

Sucks you're not getting to play a "Blue Mage" that's really just a regular caster with spells named after beast spells in your precious raids. Truly, we are living in the darkest timeline.

Stop being so narrow minded about how a class can be added to the game. Less stressful that way.

Have you forgotten this is an MMO? People wanted to play BLU with their friends and do endgame content but they're limited the devs are literally saying "this is how you're playing the game our way!" not to mention leveling is grinding more mobs and FATEs might as well just sit in Eureka oh wait you can't since it's Elvl-oops. My friend really wanted BLU same as everyone else only to be told here's BLU however you can't do anything, you're incapable of doing anything in a group, you're a solo class and gimmicky with RNG is that good design? It's not.

People aren't being narrow minded they're voicing their complaints and how disappointed they are and don't agree while you're saying "well that sucks for you" it does, this Fanfest was pretty underwhelming and that doesn't bode well for the expansion if this is a large chunk of the rest of the rock that we're getting.

According to the screenshots, there are four pages of 16 actions each, which means 64 actions max. You make your own selection of 24 to play with, and can switch pretty much as will. How the heck did you guys expect them to balance that?
Or maybe were you expecting a Blue Mage with a fixed rotation, abilities learned through leveling and something like 25-30 skills only like any other job so it could fit in the current roster of jobs? That'd be an insult to Blue Mage, and you guys would be pretty pissed about it, don't lie.

Besides, Yoshida already told about a year ago or so* that if they were to implement BLU into FFXIV, it'd have to be quite different from the other jobs. You guys, even knowing that, kept asking for it. You kept asking for "new original content". You kept asking for a meaning to go do some stuff in the open world.
That's exactly what they delivered.

For BLU to exists, it had to be its own thing. And its system seems actually pretty fun (aside from the RNG part...).

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*Edit: The quote I'm referencing was actually from many years ago, in Letter LIVE XVII 08-23-2014. Here it is:

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.

If anyone got hyped and expected it to be a "regular job", then you fooled yourself, and yourself only.