People who are mad about the "limited job" didn't actually want Blue Mage.

[Mibgestalt]

OP is completely wrong. Your idea of what Blue Mage is not the definitive Blue Mage. Hard concept to understand that some people who play FFXIV and love Blue Mage wanted to enjoy both completely.

[Bernhardt]

I actually wanted to play Blue Mage AND Play current content with my friends. Checkmate atheists. It's like playing a class you like, but can't glamour. Part of playing a character is how you look, the theme of the main class you play, and bringing something to the table in all content. I believe most people with your sentiments really didn't care about playing Blue Mage in the first place, and are fine with a class they didn't care for not really being part of the game.

If I wanted to arbitrarily farm old content, I would've started collecting Zodiac weapons again or whatever iteration relic for each release. I don't care what mechanics a class has, I prefer the aesthetic over gameplay when I play with other people. Telling me I have to form my own party of schedule people to play with when I come home when the rest of the classes can just /queue and forget it while doing something else if frustrating to no extent. I'd be paying a subscription to wait for a group that I have to recruit for when everyone else can just smash that button and let the system take care of it.

Sorry, I won't be supporting SE w/ a subscription until this gets turned around. Was looking forward to doing end game activities with a Blue Mage skin on whatever mechanics they decided they wanted it to play as, but there are far too many options for mmos out there that let you play a class you like mechanically, aesthetically and with other people without having to do it yourselves, honestly public queueing was made because creating your own parties was so tedious in the first place.

[redcurrant18]

I believe this issue with party forming/duty roulettes will be solved with the addition of trusts, which could in fact help the other jobs in Shadowbringers. If I was another job besides blue mage, I probably would queue up with my trust npcs instead of waiting ages for a tank or healer anyways. That way I could still do dungeons with a party in piece, and it would be a far less annoying and speedy experience. I'm still excited to be able to level in the overworld instead of the same dungeons over again. Upon the release of Shadowbringers however, Blue Mage's level cap should be on par with other jobs at 80 so people can play through Shadowbringers with it if they choose.

[Bernhardt]

I don't pay a monthly sub to play a solo game. Why should it be any different here. Look at SWTOR, when they switched their focus to Solo and Story, the playerbase died. FFXIV balances story, gameplay mechanics, and sociability. BLU is really weak in the sociability factor. I don't want to have to switch to another job just to get access to something as basic as a random-queue dungeon finder and certainly wouldn't be paying a company a monthly fee to do so alone with a bunch of npcs.

[Tlachtga]

For me, the fact its Blue Mage is really irrelevant. They could've announced basically anything else as the limited job and I'd still be unhappy. There's literally no point in this when there's no content to use it in.

And no, stuff I've been doing for 3 years doesn't count as new content. It's the same bullshit with a new coat of paint. At this rate, I doubt I'll even bother unlocking it.

[Sylvina]

What if people wanted blue mage but wanted to actually have it be relevant to most content? Not me but it occurred to me there may be people like that.

[BubblyBoar]

What if people wanted blue mage but wanted to actually have it be relevant to most content? Not me but it occurred to me there may be people like that.

There are quite a few people like that, and not just for BLU, but for classes like PUP and BSM too.

[Sylvina]

There are quite a few people like that, and not just for BLU, but for classes like PUP and BSM too.

wanting BSM to be relevant for PVE is silly, becuase its designed to make gear for USE in pve but is not a combat job at all. But theyre making BLU essentially a limited DoM which cannot do most content.

[Elerus]

wanting BSM to be relevant for PVE is silly, becuase its designed to make gear for USE in pve but is not a combat job at all. But theyre making BLU essentially a limited DoM which cannot do most content.

If I had to take a stab in the dark BubblyBoar was using BSM to stand for "Beastmaster" which is a class which . . . uses beast to fight. Square mentioned it as a possible "limited" class, much like they're presently (unfortunately) planning to do to Blue Mage.

[Rhivryn]

Agree with op. I'm shocked Square had the cajones to actually implement something fun and unique, rather than another homogenous watered down rotation machine with nothing but the AF making it as that it's supposed to be (:: cough Summoner cough:but damn I love bahamut <3))