Thread: Blue mage at patch 4.5

Originally Posted by Listrella

Blue mage was never going to work as a main job, not without fundamentally betraying what that job is about, which is learning abilities from monsters.

Red Mage was never going to work as a main job, not without fundamentally betraying what that job is about, which is using damage magic, healing magic, and melee combat in equal measure.

Originally Posted by Beckett

Red Mage was never going to work as a main job, not without fundamentally betraying what that job is about, which is using damage magic, healing magic, and melee combat in equal measure.

To add to this, this is something I actually said before Red Mage came out! And I had to eat crow super hard! It may not have been 100% in the spirit of the original job, but it's close enough, and Red Mage is one of my favorite jobs to play in FFXIV. I can respect the opinion of people who are looking forward to a new type of gameplay that comes with a a solo-based BLU, but the idea that Blue Mage could never, under any circumstances work as a regular job in FFXIV is asinine.