Rework Bluemage!

[Derio]

I just find it way too weak in terms of solo progression past lvl45.

[Zeggy]

I just want to play my favorite class in more than a mini game...

[Zerogunsoul81]

Whelp, he didn't mention it on the live letter, and he still hasn't said anything about it. This is getting ridiculous.

[Viceroy]

This job has really angered me the last few weeks.

I still fail to understand the dev team's reasoning for the job working the way it does and I WAS THERE AT FAN FEST when this was announced. I watched the replay about ten times to try and wrap my head around why the job cannot function in a typical group and I just don't understand.

There seems to be this feeling that the job would break everything if allowed to function in a group setting, but, I've seen no indication that this would be the case.

Spells like Missile and Tail Screw are the worst offenses due to their low accuracy -- especially Missile's whole "will do no damage to anything above your level." So, what? Do I only use it for funsies while running around outside of Ul'dah?

This job has no focus on personal stats either. Those of us who played BLU on XI will remember Blue Mage spells had STR, DEX, AGI, etc attached to them and certain combinations could generate job traits. So, you could basically structure that job in any way you saw fit and increase (or decrease) the power of your spells. Now, I don't know if it's just the way XIV is built, but it's a little ridiculous to me that this job is lacking when it comes to stats.

It all comes off to me as "Here is BLU. Stop asking!" Now it's evolved into, "Fix BLU!"

As a former career Blue Mage from FFXI, call me extremely disappointed.

[AnnaMolly]

I got BLU to 50 and got all spells in a week and I completely forget BLU is a thing until I see threads like this.

I did enough Carnival to get spells but otherwise, Carnival doesn't interest me at all and it seems that BLU was made purely for the Carnival.

[Xruptor]

I was super excited for Blue Mage. Then they released this minigame garbage of a limited job. I support it being a full job as right now, it's quite literally useless. It's popularity died about a week after it was released. Nearly everyone has shelved this job and rarely does anyone even bother doing the Masked Carnival.

I originally came back to the game excited for the Blue Mage leaks. Then came the reveal and it was like a huge slap in the face. Quite literally EVERYONE I've spoken to is extremely upset at the outcome of Blue Mage. Nobody likes what has been done to it and just level it to 50 to get rid of it. I'm stuck in a situation now where nobody wants to even bother to get Blue Mage spells anymore. Why? Because it's pointless and nobody cares about the Masked Carnival.

What irks me the most is how they claimed this job was too OP to be a full time job. Yet it requires a group of people to carry you through Hard/Extreme versions of trials to get abilities that you COULDN'T NORMALLY DO at level 50 BLU. Why? Because most abilities and mechanics kill you in one shot.

So how is this meant to be a solo minigame job which still requires others to assist you? I don't understand at all the direction they went with this job.

[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.

[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)