Thread: Blue mage at patch 4.5

Originally Posted by JBee

Completely agree with this comment.

There's no reason why a happy medium couldn't have been found, instead of doubling down and limiting a job that so many people have been looking forward to.

- Make certain abilities not work in dungeons
- Make certain abilities not work in raids
- Make certain abilities unable to be used on Bosses
- Give the job some skills as they level up, with either the skills enhanced/changed or added to via monster encounters
- Limit the potency of certain abilities in roulettes

I don't mind something new; frankly if they wanted to add a solo job like this they would have been better off adding the Beastmaster instead.

The only one I'm iffy on is the "Give the job some skills as they level up, with either the skills enhanced/changed or added to via monster encounters" I think the acquisition for skills is spot on. And I'd add to the first 3 "now work or high potency" because any of the skills what would be "problematic" in XIV should have a high GCD anyway or boss immune to it (ie their lvl 5 death >.> it would either hit hard but not fully -- like in some other ff games-- or boss immune to it.

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.

And here we have this famous hate for raiders again. Do you really think its cool that a class gets implemented that people can't play in the actual game aka. the parts of the game that people really enjoy?

Originally Posted by Seraphor

How is it 'not content' just because all YOU want to do is raid?
Raiding is about 10% of the game, people are always clamouring for 'good side content', thats why Diadem and Eureka were disappointing, because peoole want side content, and indeed many still do play Eureka.

You can't do anything through Duty Finder with it.

You can do FATEs and Leves with BLU.

Systems that have been completely abandoned for years now.

BLU is travel the overworld, collect skills, so that you can travel the overworld. The catch is that the overworld must be interesting, and anybody that has played this game in the past 8 years would know that the XIV overworld is one of the least engaging in MMO history.

Originally Posted by TheJarvisMan

Jesus, I called my shot here. Wish I was able to take some kind of joy in it.

How can anybody take joy in it?

BLU has been one of the most hyped jobs since xiv legacy's reveal. It was revealed at fanfest. They called it a job. They even showed it in combat.

And it's not a job. It's a joke, like Lords of Verminion.

But at least Lords of Verminion has depth.

Originally Posted by Arkdra

Everything they announced seems pretty exciting to me and have elevated a job that I would have leveled to cap and ignored to something that I can see putting a lot of time into.

I agree with this. I think the concept of Blue Mage is very interesting and different; it's like a game on its own! I initially wasn't really interested, but now I am.
Besides, we'll get some other jobs for raiding at 5.0, so people at endgame content won't be empty handed.

Edit: Not sure if I misread, but wasn't Blue Mage allowed to do raids so long as they're in a premade party?

I just dont understand why they couldnt do both systems?

Give them core skills through quests that can be used in dungeons and raids and then on top of that let them collect more skills for solo content that will be locked out if you are doing recent group content.

@Clover_Blake: They could do raids with a premade party but only those lvl50 ones since the job is locked at that level for some time and is only raised through 5.x patches. Thus it cant do recent content.