Thread: Blue mage at patch 4.5

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.