My Idea For Fixing Blue Mage

[Fawkes]

- 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?

BLU has like one heal and 2 defensive CDs, the vast majority of it's spells are offensive magic. It would be impossible to make the current design into a tank or healer without adding a ton more spells to learn.

I don't think anything we've seen of BLU is remotely OP, all the stuff that would be OP never has any effect on enemies higher level than you.

[Reynhart]

I don't think anything we've seen of BLU is remotely OP, all the stuff that would be OP never has any effect on enemies higher level than you.

Just a little reminder. Bosses have a level, and it's frequently the same as our cap.

[RitsukoSonoda]

IMO currently the only things with BLU I think I would change would be having development to level cap and the ability to do solo MSQ instances with it. And maybe Diadem and Eureka if it were able to reach the same level cap as other jobs.

Anything else I'd say wait a bit to see if players find ways to break the game with it using certain spell combinations.

Also I'm interested to see if BLU follows suit with what happened in FFXI when it was added. It was highly anticipated and large amounts of people went to it when it was released. However you rapidly saw less and less BLU at higher levels as many players became annoyed with the process of getting spells that were often key parts of a character build or considered a necessity. Why go through the nightmare of trying to balance all the things the OP "thinks" will "fix" a job that isn't even released yet if the percentage of players taking it to its current cap is miniscule?

[Floortank]

I'm one of the people who was disappointed by BLU not being a standard job, but what they're doing with it looks fantastic and I am very excited. Trying to "fix" it makes you sound obnoxious.

[Burningskull]

Best way to "fix" it would be to remove it and make it a non limited job. Battle jobs shouldn't be side content imo.

[Vahlnir]

Fix something that isn't even released yet? I think we should at least see what the pros and cons are first hand before we go jumping to any conclusions.

[Tint]

Fix something that isn't even released yet? I think we should at least see what the pros and cons are first hand before we go jumping to any conclusions.

We don't have to wait for the release, we already know that BLU is not what we wanted.

People wanted BLU as a new job, and they added BLU because of these people who were asking for it. But they don't add it as a job, they add it as a minigame. They targeted the wrong audience, regardless of how fun BLU might me.


And honestly: We knew before 4.0 release that the class changes for WHM and DRK would suck, we knew that the adding of Shirogane will be a mess, we knew that the greed-only loot rule in 24 man raids would not work, we knew months ahead that Eureka will just be another Diadem... We don't (always) have to wait for the release...

[Theodric]

BLU, in the form it is set to be implemented, is exactly what I wanted it to be.

[Blueyes]

BLU, in the form it is set to be implemented, is exactly what I wanted it to be.

What if I were to tell you that you could have had what you wanted without sacrificing access to content? It's not so far fetched of an idea as you might think.

[Lambdafish]

I'd like to agree with you, but the skills datamined provide a fairly balanced rotation, with the only thing pushing it into unbalanced being peculiar light being a 30% magic vuln (Seriously 30%). The rest of the abilities seem to form together to make a neat interesting rotation and skillset, so the question arises, if they do have this fairly balanced rotation (excluding peculiar light which could just be tuned down) why should it be exempt from stuff?

That's nice and all, but I'll believe it when I see it tomorrow. If that is the case then maybe we will get something nice for BLU later down the line in terms of raiding, but as of right now, the content that we have seems interesting. I am extremely skeptical about the devs unlocking BLU immediately, and I would rather they see how the player base takes to the job rather than putting it somewhere that it does not belong.

BLU is not what we wanted

Who is we? You talk like everyone thinks this way