BLU Single Player?

**purgatori** · 02-25-2019 08:23 PM

Originally Posted by Mito123

Yoshi p needs a reality check if he thinks this Blu job is good. I just don't get why everyone or 90% of the community don't like it and yet he is not caring one bit. Just errks me how badly he made blu in this game. Solo job..... Wtf. It's an mmo not single player. And saying how players will kick you if you don't have certain spells that's just nonsense. If you play blue mage and you know you need spells that's YOUR RESPONSIBILITY, or make it so you need the spells to use duty finder not hard. He should've experiment on a new job that isn't big like Blu. Totally ruined it

Grouping with other players is not the only way to have an impact on them. When you converge with other players on a particular target/objective, that's online multiplayer. When you buy and sell goods through the market board or direct trading, that's online multiplayer. When you use the MSQ/lore of the game as a launching pad for roleplaying with other players, that's online multiplayer. When you play minigames with/against other players, that's online multiplayer.

But hell, even if someone's favourite type of content features is almost or entirely devoid of interaction with other players, so what? That an MMO provides many and varied ways of playing with and/or against other players is one lure, but so is the ever-expanding nature of the content, the enjoyment of having a character that changes and progresses over *really* long spans of time compared to other games, etc. Nowhere is written on high that all content must be group content, and anything else is an offence to the divine MMOverlord.

In the context of BLU specifically: There would have been nothing wrong with making BLU a solo job (as was advertised). I, and many others, would have enjoyed that. Of course, it's likely that an even greater number of people would have enjoyed it if it were available for Duty Finder activities, but the problem is that it doesn't cater to either of these constituents at all.

**ShivaTairo** · 02-27-2019 10:48 AM

Purgatori hit the nail on the head, as is it literally appeals to neither party df nor solo.

The job is weak because it doesnt have what takes it to....well.. you know, even be called a Blue mage.
Blues are supposed to be able to tank, heal, melee or nuke, kite and do ranged, all of it.
The job is a joke unless they plan on giving it its entire and own job role in the game. Classing it up as a DPS is NOT ‘only’ what Blue mage is, and even then ranged caster?
But thats why its failing and requiring parties. Its just too weak to solo because its limited as a dps role. “not the level and content limit”

I feel like alot of folks get its failing due to limitation but not exactly seeing the entire picture, limited yes, because blu isnt just a ranged caster dps. If they really want this job to work solo, it needs to be capable of all 5 roles, not 1. Yes all 5. And lets be honest, is that NOT what a Blu is known for anyway? It very much so is.

You cant solo in the current content setup unless they rework Blu to ACTUALLY be a Blu. So it’s really confusing as to why SE is finding any pride in implementing this job.

Flashy meaningless story content? Why did we need a useless job added to take part in that.
SE is trying to glamour the name blue mage out just like theyve done with moogles and chocobos, this needs to stop. Blu isnt something we want to buy your little statues of and hang posters about SE so stop the idolizing crap. We wanted Blu because its real core is versatile and fun. Not EVERYTHING is about gd idolization. Gg SE, GG.

If Yoshi kept the above, in MIND, about what a blue IS, then both solo, and party, couldve worked. As it stands no matter what he does, unless all 5 ffxiv roles can be used by Blu, the community is going to continue to see this job as a failure. Even when content limits are removed.

Another hole Yoshi P dug for himself is that in order for a Blu to use all five roles, and, you guessed it, be a Blu, they need to have different gearsets, 1 for tanking, 1 for melee, 1 for nuking (as is current set), something Yoshi eliminated in 2.0 because he thought it was ridiculous. Well... that “ridiculous” is biting him in the ass at the moment. No matter how much they play off like they dont already know it.

Like...SE....You just cant add something like Blue into the game without those in mind, it was a severe short sight. If they want to restrict gear swapping mid battle, that can work, pre planning required ya know? But not being about to wear beafier tank gear, or dps gear and switching it “out” side of combat is a major no no for Blue.

In short Yoshi stepped into a puddle of....stuff, he had no business being in.
For those only slightly familiar with any of this, or came from wow, younger, etc, this is like you getting a new car, and it doesnt have wheels, engines, windows, ac, or a radio ok?

Now imagine youve never seen a car before, so ofc you think you can turn it into something great. Well ok, thats whats happening right now.

**Crux** · 03-05-2019 04:47 AM

BLU implementation was not good. I'm sure that many people leveled it but how many are actively playing the class? How many got all the BLU spells? Create a class that can't use Duty Finder and then put spells on Primal fights? Now that the initial rush for BLU spells is over, with all BLU parties in Party Finder, how does one go about getting them? Create a PF that no one will join? Join an existing PF as a BLU and hope they will carry you?

**deadman1204** · 03-05-2019 06:51 AM