Thread: Blue mage at patch 4.5

Originally Posted by BillyKaplan

Yeah this would've been murder to balance or even just support if released alongside the expansion. I'm guessing this is basically a glorified beta stage for BLU. Kind of smart of them

It's certainly a shakeup of the predictable patch patterns.

Originally Posted by Thayos

Love this! Some people may bristle at the cap, but it's a smart idea. Rather than launch at the expac at level 50, people can level up from 1-50 and then be ready to level more at 5.0. Gives the devs more time to balance the job with real-time feedback, too -- and without breaking higher-level content.

That's true - I didn't consider an aspect of beta-testing for it. I bristled a little at the 50-cap, because I'd love to use it in current content, but given it looks like standard leveling and having to learn your own actions (you don't get any from leveling, it sounds like!) at least it'll be a busy leveling rush to 50. XD

Originally Posted by Zeich

[...] but given it looks like standard leveling and having to learn your own actions (you don't get any from leveling, it sounds like!) at least it'll be a busy leveling rush to 50. XD

This is probably what they meant by limited Itś basically an ¨explanation¨ for people who don´t understand how blue mage works.

Originally Posted by Thayos

Love this! Some people may bristle at the cap, but it's a smart idea. Rather than launch at the expac at level 50, people can level up from 1-50 and then be ready to level more at 5.0. Gives the devs more time to balance the job with real-time feedback, too -- and without breaking higher-level content.

As this person said, its likely the lvl cap is set to 50 and will increase when the game comes out OR increase as it gets closer to xpac. This way you can lvl it to 50 now, then 60 closer to the xpac, then 70 before the xpac so you can start the xpac as one. A big issue I think people probably had with SB was Sam and RDM started at 50 at the beginning of SB, and put people behind story wise as they needed to catch up to 60 before actually moving forward. They probably dont wnat a repeat of that.

This also prevents the new class from messing with current content till an appropriate time. As in, they dont want you to be doing end game content with the new class till that endgame content is all but irrelevant

Originally Posted by ChaseNetwork

Can I take the instant wipe moves from Primals please? xD

Shiva's arrow move was instant wipe back in the way. Need to specifically ask for their ultimates!

Originally Posted by Nariel

I don't get the point of having a job you can't really play outside of its own duty or in anything relevant.

It's definitely more of a fanservice. But honestly I don't mind it being limited, because the mechanics around it seem very finicky. People get their BLU and it won't instantly break anything until they are ready to raise it to cap.