Rework Bluemage!

[Zerogunsoul81]

They have so guts putting Blue Mage as number 14, do they still think people like it? After all the hate they've been getting, if your going to that, the least you can do is say that it's getting a rework to be a real class, instead of a boring, useless, waste of time and money that it is now.

[Shadow_Sama]

I feel so bad for the players who have been waiting on their favorite job to make it into the game only for it to become a limited job. I never had any interest in BLU becoming my main job. However, I was excited with the people who were really anticipating this job. I was happy for them knowing they were gonna play the job they always wanted. But from the outside looking in, I feel it's devastating to know that the job you've been holding out on for years and have been looking most forward to playing comes out as a limited job.

I love Ninja. I've been playing since 1.0 and I remember that yearning to play as a Ninja since 1.0 first came out. When they announced Ninja I was ecstatic. I was so excited and happy after waiting for years to finally play my Ninja job. I can only imagine the level of disappointment to be in that frame of mind only to discover that what you've wanted is limited and can never truly be. Blue Mage deserves to be a full job and I shutter to think that they would do this again. To Beast Master? Geomancer? let me not give them any ideas. I think Limited Jobs are a terrible idea, and it's a decision I cannot stand by with Yoshi P on.

The dev team should rework BLU and make it into a full job without a doubt.

[Videra]

Blue Mage is a trash fire, and this has been acknowledged by most parties except for the dev team.

Expect BLU to never be updated, like Diadem.

[ADVSS]

Blue Mage is a trash fire, and this has been acknowledged by most parties except for the dev team.

Expect BLU to never be updated, like Diadem.

Again this is where we feedback, and complain(if necessary) if we didnt, the fire wouldn't be put out and we'd just sit there and watch.
Im NOT a big BLU fan, but I see what they've done, and being a longtime(even life time) FF fan. I have to agree.
This was evidently done on purpose(3 Execute instant buttons, so funny)(Lies about OP-ness)And even worse, it plays exactly like any other workable full-job. This is obviously a message sent that they just didnt want to not that they cant. Especially now that SQUALL is an ICONIC FF Job, whew, finally. Seriously, not much if any thought would have to have been put out to up potencies, and make it a 3rd Usable job in ShB. But we both know why and what theyre doing. Theyre stalling so it will be, when they run out of SQUALL jobs to add to the roster. then ok BLU
Guess what were getting next expansion? probably LOCKE or better yet ZIDANE job for the next expansion - we never had a thief class before

[Mansion]

Expect BLU to never be updated, like Diadem.

They literaly just said Diadem will be updated for the Ishgard thing.

Anyway, BLU is a mini game on its own, not a job. Seeing things that way makes it easier to mourn it ;D (at least for me). It will be updated along these lines (level cap and Masked Carnival)

[Gruntler]

I see a thread of people who never tried doing BLU challenge runs, got twinked to get their spells, and decided not to try doing actual challenging stuff with it, deciding that side content designed by Mr Atma, a battle designer, should be given to the balance team because they decided that Blue Mage shouldn't involve the blue mage mechanics that have been baked into the job for 20 years, and literally in every iteration in one form or another, despite claiming it's their favorite job, because.... reasons.

None of which involve naming specific blue mage spells.

[Videra]

They literaly just said Diadem will be updated for the Ishgard thing.

This is actually news to me, but it doesn't surprise me. They keep trying to make something that doesn't work - work.

[Yasune]

I see a thread of people who never tried doing BLU challenge runs, got twinked to get their spells, and decided not to try doing actual challenging stuff with it, deciding that side content designed by Mr Atma, a battle designer, should be given to the balance team because they decided that Blue Mage shouldn't involve the blue mage mechanics that have been baked into the job for 20 years, and literally in every iteration in one form or another, despite claiming it's their favorite job, because.... reasons.

None of which involve naming specific blue mage spells.

Exactly what mechanics have been baked into the job for 20 years? The customization? That's only in FFXI. Not being able to actually play the game? No, that's just in this game. So you're probably clinging to the instant death and percentage based damage. In which case I point you to BLM and AST. BLM has had Death since FF1, but doesn't in FFXIV. Can you guess why? Can you also guess why AST's Gravity doesn't deal damage based on 1/4th of the enemy's health? There's no classic BLU spell that can't be reworked to become acceptable for this game. For instance, why can't Doom simply be a timer that tics for something ridiculous like 1000 potency if the enemy is still alive? That's how Death works in FFXIII, and it still retains the flavor of Doom which is 'counting down to an enemy's death'. I'm sure I'm wasting my time though because nothing I say will stop you from worshiping the broken and nonsensical design simply because your precious beloved devs decided to do it.

[MagiusNecros]

Blue Mage is a trash fire, and this has been acknowledged by most parties except for the dev team.

Expect BLU to never be updated, like Diadem.

BLU will be updated but will always be a patch or two behind. That's pretty much what the devs said a long time ago. It will never be relevant. And that's total crap.

[Kaiten_kenbu]

Since Blue Mage is a solo job, could they make it usable for Command Missions?

And can we be allowed to have full access to duty finder as pre-formed parties?