Rework Bluemage!

[Zerogunsoul81]

Square please do something about Blu. Your plan to make it a solo job to avoid people discriminating against it has failed, if not make it more hated. If people don't have the right spells for it, it's they're folt. You wouldn't let a level 70 gladiator join your PF so why is a Blu without the right spells any different? And as for your "Level 5 Death" argument goes why would you ever let a Blu use that on bosses? You already proven that you add resistances to the death status to most, if not all trial and raid bosses. And the masked carnival is one of the most boring things to do, I will say you did put some good ideas into it, such as bring back old songs and making a cool little mini boss in there. But at the end of the day all fights end in one of two ways. One, run at the boss with all damage ups on and use self destruct or final sting, or two look up a guide online and get the answer to the puzzle them beat the fight. There is no reason for it to stay a limited job. I just want my favorite job in the game instead of a minigame. So please rework this class, I would rather you not add it, then add it in its current state.

[NYCAcimStudent]

Virtually nobody is happy with BLU in its current beta-but-not-officially-beta-but-really-it-is-beta state.

Wait until 5.0 and be at peace, valiant Warrior. Shadowbringers will have significant changes. There is a reason why SE brought out Blue Mage now and not at the launch for 5.0. Blue Mage is still incubating and must be segregated from the real classes. Classes are balanced with each other and not in a vacuum.

For people who want it to be equal to a real job, I don't see the rush at all. There are significant issues with multiple jobs right now and those need to be resolved before we start piling on more jobs and more complexity. The knee-jerk reaction to this increasing complexity is class homogenization. We don't want that!

For people who are happy to have it be a solo job, I believe that SE sees all these complaints about the fun but short-lived gameplay. I am confident that they will find an ingenious solution if they want to keep this whole "limited job" thing going.

Just my two cents. But please keep complaining if criticisms are warranted! Multiple things in this game only got fixed because the player base got vocal.

[redcurrant18]

Blue Mage: A Job Reborn

[guardin]

no thanks its a blast to play and have something to keep me busy til 5.0. dont just want another same ol same ol dps that the only difference in combat is the skill effects

[redcurrant18]

no thanks its a blast to play and have something to keep me busy til 5.0. dont just want another same ol same ol dps that the only difference in combat is the skill effects

Well that's nice but that still doesn't change the fact the class can't do the Main Quest and can't survive in post lvl 50 battles. Delete Blue Mage in its entirety and work it again from the ground up please.

[Kurando]

Your plan to make it a solo job to avoid people discriminating against it has failed, if not make it more hated. If people don't have the right spells for it, it's they're folt. You wouldn't let a level 70 gladiator join your PF so why is a Blu without the right spells any different? .

But that's Party Finder, the recruiter can have whatever restrictions they want it's their decision. Make your own parties or even your own LS to bring together BLU players that can do things together, don't expect everything to be done for you. SAM regularly gets locked out of high end content so let's rework that job as well shall we because clearly it's discrimation against it.

Virtually nobody is happy with BLU in its current beta-but-not-officially-beta-but-really-it-is-beta state.

This is not true, quite a number of players are happy with BLU. It's not good to blanket the population with a "virtually nobody" claim. This is the XIV iteration of BLU currently, although who knows it might change from Limited status in the future. For now no point fixing something that isn't broken, as this is what it was intended to be.

[Nezerius]

no thanks its a blast to play and have something to keep me busy til 5.0. dont just want another same ol same ol dps that the only difference in combat is the skill effects

I find this hilarious, coming from someone who has only leveled BLU to lvl 12 (inb4 "I've leveled it on a different character!")

Yes, the leveling process can be fun, getting spells from overworld mobs as you go. And then you hit lvl 50 and start going for the primal/instance abilities, when it essentially boils down to being carried by lvl 70s, because the learn rate of these spells (especially the primal ones) is ridiculously low.

[Reckless_typhoon]

no thanks its a blast to play and have something to keep me busy til 5.0. dont just want another same ol same ol dps that the only difference in combat is the skill effects

also for me this is my first time playing as a blue mage and for me at least i sure as hell hate that how blue mage works right now. i would like to play current content with it then play it as a mini game. since the idea of being able to build my character on what spell is a cool idea. but it not cool to being forced to old and slightly stale content. so for you its a blast good for ya but your in a very small camp of people. and who says that they will take away the customization if they do bring it up to current content.

[Hasrat]

Eh. It was slightly fun up until about level 30ish. Maybe it wouldn't be so bad with the Ala Mhigan earrings or whatever other EXP boost items you can have up until 50, but with only the Brand New Ring helping me out, I felt things starting to chug along pretty abruptly.
Additionally, by that level range, I had already gotten pretty much every spell you can get on your own. Between Mighty Guard and 1000 Needles, getting the Mor Dhona and North Thanalan spells weren't too much trouble, and it's even possible to solo Ifrit for your first primal spell. But after that, you're basically just slogging through levels just to hit 50 and unlock the rest.

That said, I'm not really so sure I want the job to change all that much. Because, in my eyes, that exact combo is what needs the most attention, but it's what makes the early/mid levels somewhat satisfying. Mighty Guard for defense, 1000 Needles to get around the damage reduction.

[Kalise]

no thanks its a blast to play and have something to keep me busy til 5.0. dont just want another same ol same ol dps that the only difference in combat is the skill effects

I don't know why people think that changing BLU into something that isn't Limited means turning it into a carbon copy of BLM or some such.

Also, I'm curious as to where the thought process behind BLU currently being any different stems from, given that a large portion of playing BLU is just spamming a 130 Potency ability onto a target with Off-Guard on them and then pressing Primal oGCD abilities during Peculiar Light burst phases. You know, exactly like "Same ol', same ol' DPS" classes.

Especially when you consider that outside of level 1-49 cheese with 1000 Needles spam and the few notable targets that are actually susceptible to insta-kill effects so can be hit by Doom/Tail Screw/Missile that the only other things that BLU can do is have a slightly more interesting time against trash by comboing stuff like The Ram's Voice > The Dragon's Voice a few times until diminishing returns gives CC immunities. Which is something that could in fact become a core gameplay feature against all targets rather than a limited bit of cheese against irrelevant enemies and is barely notable outside this specific combo (Due to other combo's being either not worth the use such as Aqua Breath > High Voltage which just matches the damage of spamming Glower... Or the combo is really limited such as Level 5 Petrify > Drill Cannon because the CC is based on specific levels...)