Rework Bluemage!

[official_coconut]

I'm curious to see what future patches will bring for Blue Mage but I don't have high expectations.

[odym82]

Just a random idea (and not likely popular) the Blue Mage could have made an excellent Healer. It has lots of heals and shields and buffs and a few damaging abilities (if we ignore the boss abilities weirdness). In particular i think the suicidal sacrifice heals could be very interesting and clutch in dungeon boss fights. Much like they do with all the other classes they could have simply had each ability learned locked behind a monster fought or hunted down for their job quests. (And removed the boss abilities skills completely)

[Toxsik]

I was always hoping that blu mage would eventually be reworked later to be a full job, also any limited jobs in the future i would hope for the same thing eventually

[Arcanmene]

I recently came back to FFXIV and I was sorely disappointed with BLU.

BLU is my favorite class in all FFs. I focus on the BLU in every title, to include Tactics Advance.

All they had to do was balance the class normally and lock the monster skills behind quests. To guarantee people wouldnt be locked out of content.

Also giving the BLU a real weapon would have been nice, but that's not a big deal.

This needs to be a real class. Rework this instead of adding another job, and please for the love of god no more "limited classes".

[UnrealTai]

I recently came back to FFXIV and I was sorely disappointed with BLU.

BLU is my favorite class in all FFs. I focus on the BLU in every title, to include Tactics Advance.

All they had to do was balance the class normally and lock the monster skills behind quests. To guarantee people wouldnt be locked out of content.

Also giving the BLU a real weapon would have been nice, but that's not a big deal.

This needs to be a real class. Rework this instead of adding another job, and please for the love of god no more "limited classes".

This a million times over.
Especially the weapon, although the difference for me is that this is what bugs me more then anything else about the class, I wanna duel wield talwars like in ffta or ff11. At least single wield a sword. Blm = blu is not a blu

[Duelle]

I've been watching videos explaining BLU's design and attached systems, and it boggles my mind that it was implemented as side content instead of as a main job. As an outsider looking in, it seems SE chose to put the gimmick of Blue Magic above everything else; the spectacle of having boss abilities trumping balanced class design.

Granted, considering the current jobs are built around certain parameters, concessions would have to be made to make BLU fit with the other jobs. I'm not convinced that's a bad thing, though for the sake of those that like the job as it is, I would probably create a core design for BLU that would be able to join normal parties and raids, and implement systems around it that would be for solo spell farming and the masked carnival. I can't say for sure if BLU players would mind being limited to a specific list of spells for duties/raids, though.

[ReiMakoto]

I've been watching videos explaining BLU's design and attached systems, and it boggles my mind that it was implemented as side content instead of as a main job. As an outsider looking in, it seems SE chose to put the gimmick of Blue Magic above everything else; the spectacle of having boss abilities trumping balanced class design.

Granted, considering the current jobs are built around certain parameters, concessions would have to be made to make BLU fit with the other jobs. I'm not convinced that's a bad thing, though for the sake of those that like the job as it is, I would probably create a core design for BLU that would be able to join normal parties and raids, and implement systems around it that would be for solo spell farming and the masked carnival. I can't say for sure if BLU players would mind being limited to a specific list of spells for duties/raids, though.

I think a lot of people who wanted Blue Mage wouldn't have minded just having the normal caster amount of spells either, with the only difference being you collected your spells through the overworld/ dungeons/ normal mode trials rather than leveling and job quests.

[RightfulKing]

I think a lot of people who wanted Blue Mage wouldn't have minded just having the normal caster amount of spells either, with the only difference being you collected your spells through the overworld/ dungeons/ normal mode trials rather than leveling and job quests.

I certainly wouldn't have minded only having the normal amount of caster spells. Sure, we have more right now, bu the class is borderline unusable beyond very specific game modes and just... isn't fun because of it.

[Brightshadow]

BLU needs party capabilities, there is no place for this job in the current game. It's a party based game, if they are so interested in giving us solo opportunities they can expand the trust system. Even if BLU is a lv80 solo job what exactly would it solo without breaking the current party environment? If they can solo primals or raids at the current level nobody would do these in parties. This is a MMO not a single player game.

[Tennotsukai]

Came back to the game after a few years of not playing just for Blu. I wonder how many others did the same. Obviously, greatly disappointed for not being able to main the job and unable to grab lvl 50 spells because I don't know anyone for the carry. Hopefully, SE will listen to our pleas to make this a normal, unlimited job.