Make Blue Mage a dps focused HEALER job.

[Nedkel]

I think everyone could agree with me on this that blue mage needs a complete rework and being made into a properly functioning job.

Since there is unbalance in the number of classes, what if we turn blue mage into a dps oriented healer?
Making it a pure healer wouldnt make a lot of sense from design perspective, so maybe SE should experiment with a healer that could do damage and heal at the same time?
With abilities similar to warriors nascent flash, where warrior deals damage and he heals other party member with it, blue mage could have something like that too and have some healing skills as well. Blue mage could also have some team mitigation tools or damage reducing spells too to make it all more diverse.
It will be something different to play and game would use some more healers.

[Gihwezi]

Eh, to be honest, I don't think healers deserve or should get a recycled (re-purposed? refurbished?) job as their new healer job after waiting all this time for one.

[Mikhaill]

I really don't want BLU as a healer. I want a brand new healer.
I can agree that BLU needs some serious help.
I thought they'd expand on it a little by now.
Preferably making it part of the team of legit DPS
and not this Clown Fiesta Circus Show they have it as lol.

[RightfulKing]

At this point, I'll take any solution that involves Blue mage becoming a full fledged class TAT

[Bacent]

It's a bit late for them to transform a class like this, no matter the idea. There's a few ghost achievements already tied to it, and we know SE won't touch anything that has an achievement.

[van_arn]

stop trying to make blu happen, it's not going to happen

[ShenDrakar]

stop trying to make blu happen, it's not going to happen

Shut up Regina! :P

[Razard]

stop trying to make blu happen, it's not going to happen

This. All of this.

Have you been to the class forums lately? there's 3-5 threads in each whinging about "Job Identity", whatever the hell that means. It's a race to the bottom to see who can scream their bad idea the loudest to make their pet class "more in line with traditional FF (INSERT Class here)", even if it wont work within the games framework.

This is why they where nervous about Blue Mage. It just doesn't work within ffxiv's battle system, Where everyone is specialized into one of three roles, with very little overlap. And would you look at that, they where right to be nervous.

Blue has all the job identity you could ever want

[ReiMakoto]

This. All of this.

Have you been to the class forums lately? there's 3-5 threads in each whinging about "Job Identity", whatever the hell that means. It's a race to the bottom to see who can scream their bad idea the loudest to make their pet class "more in line with traditional FF (INSERT Class here)", even if it wont work within the games framework.

This is why they where nervous about Blue Mage. It just doesn't work within ffxiv's battle system, Where everyone is specialized into one of three roles, with very little overlap. And would you look at that, they where right to be nervous.

Blue has all the job identity you could ever want

You need to be a real Job to have a Job identity. Real talk though, its been discussed so many times that FFXIV doesnt match Blues Job identity its unreal, so it doesnt bear repeating all of it. But a nice Sum up is BLU is historically used to support and compliment a party, something ffxivs cannot do

[Razard]

You need to be a real Job to have a Job identity. Real talk though, its been discussed so many times that FFXIV doesnt match Blues Job identity its unreal, so it doesnt bear repeating all of it. But a nice Sum up is BLU is historically used to support and compliment a party, something ffxivs cannot do

Looks like points where missed young squire. Do keep up.

The point is the same people advocating for Blue to be a "real job" are the same people who would have complained if it was a "real job". How many times have people said on this forum alone that "(Insert Class) doesn't feeeeeeeeeeeeeel like (insert class mentioned previously)"? And all the arguments I have heard from the "real jobbers" don't seem to answer the fundemental question.

How do you keep the essence of the Blue Mage while keeping it within the framework of the Holy Trinity? Because let me tell you as a Summoner player it's frustrating to see every single thread about my class being a countdown to the "Muh not real Summoner" post and subsequent 20 car pile up that ensues.