Thread: Blue mage at patch 4.5

Originally Posted by Hanayumi

There is a lot.... of work that go into making a full on job, but the main idea is "Balance."

The Carnivale will be balanced as well -- unless you're implying it won't be, in which case it sounds like preeeeeetty dumb content if you can just spam Goblin Punch all the way through. Heck having 49 friggin' skills (seriously why so many? That's ridiculous and impossible to balance around even in solo play) wasn't necessary, make it like 30-ish. You know with 49 they're going to be reeeeeally stretching on what we can get that's cool or that's going to overlap extremely hard.

Blue Mage would pretty much have to settle down to a role, caster dps, for obvious reasons like stats, gear, required skills for roles. Would also need to progress well with other jobs as it levels, wouldnt be able to obtain all possible skills right from the start, just the usual couple skills every few levels,

That's how they're going to work anyway. You're not going to have all 49 at level 1. You literally can't enter the Shiva fight until 50 anyway, so what's so bad about more skills becoming available to learn from monsters as you level?

monsters would pretty much have to be only the open world as you cant really lock out skills in like dungeons or primal fight unless it solo instance... I mean slowly and slowly you start losing out on a real blue mage and instead start getting a regular caster with a blue mage gimmick...

It's quite likely that yes, you wouldn't be able to use the current expansion's boss's abilities. Even if BLU was out now, they most likely couldn't use Ukehi from Susano or Byakko's roar or Omega's Delta Attack... but you know what? Under the current system they can't do these anyway because they literally can't go into that content. Maybe when Shadowbringers comes out and the level cap is raised, BLU could go back and learn those new skills (plus some others, plus some from Shadowbringer's open world) as their 71-80 skills. Then yeah, at 80 no more new skills until the expansion launches unless SE decides to actually break the mold and add some mid-expansion. Heck that wouldn't even be the first time a job has received a new ability in a patch.

Edit - And yeah, I know I said above more is better, but 3 jobs is better for the longevity of the game than 49 skills (and only by level 50!) and is going to be easier to balance. Unless the point of BLU is to be unbalanced, which is really, really dumb.