My Idea For Fixing Blue Mage

[DamianFatale]

- Make Blue Mage queable for any of the three roles.
- Categorize each ability by its role typings.
- Require enough abilities in a certain role to go into instanced content. I.e. basic healing abilities, aggro abilities, and dps abilities. The number required would go up by the content level.
- Further categorize the abilities by labeling each one for its power. Extremely OP skills that are abusable in duty finder would be banned, or limited in the number that they can be used.
- When you choose a role, your icon color changes to reflect that role.
- By the time you reach level 60-80 you would have enough varied abilities for each role. It would still be a highly customizable job.
- Obviously in undersized instances, and non instanced content, you could do whatever you wanted with what is available to you.

Thoughts?

[Brightamethyst]

Thoughts?

That this is the most original take on the topic I've ever heard. I am in awe of these new and thought provoking suggestions.

[SDaemon]

"Fix"

Also trying to balance BLU across 3 roles would be a royal nightmare.

[Bacent]

Dunno why people keep trying to 'fix' something that isn't even out yet. Kind of getting really old.

Edit: This reminds me of the time someone from Balmung tried making a red mage rotation before it was even introduced.

[Rosentretter]

Dunno why people keep trying to 'fix' something that isn't even out yet. Kind of getting really old.

This. I'm tired of seeing how people want to "fix" BLU, which hasn't even been released yet. It's a Limited Job, like it or not. If it ever becomes available for DF, it won't be soon. Just play the actual class before trying to fix it.

[DamianFatale]

This. I'm tired of seeing how people want to "fix" BLU, which hasn't even been released yet. It's a Limited Job, like it or not. If it ever becomes available for DF, it won't be soon. Just play the actual class before trying to fix it.

Then don't comment here. There are many who disagree with the implemation of Blue Mage as a limited job. Blue Mage has been one of the highest requested jobs since even the legacy days. We just want a way to use it in regular content. In an MMO that should be the standard.

[Bacent]

Then don't comment here. There are many who disagree with the implemation of Blue Mage as a limited job. Blue Mage has been one of the highest requested jobs since even the legacy days. We just want a way to use it in regular content. In an MMO that should be the standard.

So it should be 'standard' to strip down a class to follow the exact same formula over and over, not willing to try anything new because people are TERRIFIED of anything that's new. Don't complain about something you haven't even been given yet, or they might just call off any plans they have in the future due to people having a tantrum over it. It's a discussion forum. This is a discussion thread. You don't have the right to tell people who can and can not post here.

[Jojoya]

Then don't comment here. There are many who disagree with the implemation of Blue Mage as a limited job. Blue Mage has been one of the highest requested jobs since even the legacy days. We just want a way to use it in regular content. In an MMO that should be the standard.

So you disagree with the implementation. That still doesn't mean Blue Mage is broken and needs to be fixed.

You can use it in regular content up to the earned job level as long as you're not doing it through random matchmaking in Duty Finder or PvP. I certainly won't have a problem finding people to pre-form groups with to play Blue Mage. I wonder why you think you will.

If SE did what you wanted with the job, they would have to nerf potencies so hard that people would be complaining that the job isn't OP like it should be and would stop playing it because it was more annoyance to level than anything else. This way, the job gets to be OP and people get to have that fun without it impacting balance in the rest of the game.

[Robert_Ilcri]

The class isn't even out yet. Can't "fix" what isn't even in the game. How about before making stuff like this, you actually give the class a try and then we go from there.

[Rymm]

Thoughts?

Oh look, yet another one of these BLU threads.

*tosses it on the heap*

Implementation is at only a couple more days away, I was honestly expecting people to be able to hold in their salt til then.