Rework Bluemage!

[Ookamii]

As i'm sure others have said, I really enjoy BLU as a whole, and the idea is a lot of fun. It needs a lot of refinement, such as some spell tuning, and definitely increasing the drop rates on the Primal spells. That's my main issue with it at the moment. Grinding for items and mounts is whatever, but when you have to do the same boss over and over with other people having to piggyback you is kind of boring.

[Waffles298]

been said before but i'm not terribly happy about how Blu was implemented. the whole "limited" bit, being restricted from well over half the games content, not being able to do the msq, all of the restrictions rub me the wrong way. i got blu to 50, got my spells, and did the masked carnival. haven't touched it since because why bother? if all it's good for is leveling up, learning the spells, and doing the mini game then there's not much point to even touch it

[purgatori]

It's impossible for me to even get all the spells, so that immediately makes me dislike it quite strongly. If not for that, though, I think that I would still take issue with not being able, at the very least, to take it into command missions and deep dungeons.

[Zerogunsoul81]

Well we finally got him to speak out about blue mage. But fluffy words removed, he basically said I'm not going to take peoples criticism, not in till we add more content for it. Oh but don't worry we'll be adding in some stuff that's "Hardcore" for the blue mage. Yoshi, it doesn't matter how much content you add to this minigame, people are always going to complain about it, becuase they can't do the main content that they want to do. I swear him and his team are *For lack of a better word* fucking up now, first on there not going to add male Verra, or female Ronso. Then Dancer being a ranged DPS and not giving a new healer. Now telling everyone to shut up about blue mage. I hope yoshi gets his act together becuase he's messing up, and I hope he knows that in an mmo you need to listen to your fans/players from time to time or else your game gets shut down from lack of subs.

[Waffles298]

Well we finally got him to speak out about blue mage. But fluffy words removed, he basically said I'm not going to take peoples criticism, not in till we add more content for it. Oh but don't worry we'll be adding in some stuff that's "Hardcore" for the blue mage. Yoshi, it doesn't matter how much content you add to this minigame, people are always going to complain about it, becuase they can't do the main content that they want to do. I swear him and his team are *For lack of a better word* fucking up now, first on there not going to add male Verra, or female Ronso. Then Dancer being a ranged DPS and not giving a new healer. Now telling everyone to shut up about blue mage. I hope yoshi gets his act together becuase he's messing up, and I hope he knows that in an mmo you need to listen to your fans/players from time to time or else your game gets shut down from lack of subs.

while i personally don't care about the dancer issue or the new race issue, i feel that the statement regarding bluemage is troubling. we want to be able to play the same content with our blue mages as the other jobs. and before anyone gets started, let me point out that 1) besides ffxi no other main series ff game with a blue mage had spell learning locked behind rng. the only criteria for learning spells was that the enemy used the spell, your blue mage survived the spell, and you won the encounter. the only outliers were ffviii where spell learning was item based, ffix where you had to eat the enemy, and ffx where you had to use lancet. 2) blue mages were never gated from content in other ff titles, not even ffxi. because the expansions in ffxi were mostly self contained story wise, as long as you could unlock blue mage you could do any other piece of content in the game as BLU.

[Waffles298]

also the argument of bluemage being a solo job is a falsehood, when looking at it from the perspective of "trying to stay true to the job in prior works", in all the games prior to ffxi you were forced into groups (except khimari's solo fight, which was largely scripted and impossible to lose if you ever used him), in ffxi any job could be made a solo job with the right gear, spells, and situation.

[Zerogunsoul81]

It's still shocks me how much SE just doesn't care about the people who wanted Blue mage, the people who wanted a new healer, or the people who wanted male Verra. Hopeful they get their heads out of their collective asses and open their eyes to what the players want. Before all of the player go elsewhere, and start playing a game where the devs listen to their players.

[AceofRains]

The outrage around Blue Mage is definitely growing. I’m am willing to play around with “hardcore” content. But ultimately I won’t care. This job needs to change or I’m just not going to touch it.

[Rollout]

Blue Mage is suffering hard now that people have learned whatever spells they wanted to learn and completed the carnival.

What is there to do after that? Nothing. No one really wants to do synced EX trials at that low level. Can't do any roulettes. Can't even queue for a dungeon for the fun of it.

Yeah, you can do the three Masked Carnival challenges every week, but those can easily be done in a day, so it's not much on the entertaining point.

They either need to do something drastic with the class and the Masked Carnival, or they need to make the job fully fledged.

[Zerogunsoul81]

I hope they do start to do something about blue mage soon, at least say something about it, like say that your looking into it, or we have big plans for it, I swear SE needs to be more open with the things they do to the game.