Thread: BLU MAGE...PATCH 5.1...HMMMMMM?

Originally Posted by Voltyblast

Please, for the love of whatever deity you praise, DO NOT give them that idea!

What is wrong with BLU in Eureka? You have a wide variety of mobs and NMs which already have various Blue magics and it would be another place where BLU magic elemental affinities could have a purpose. As long as BLU mages as not stupid and spam their Suicide moves BLU should work well in there.

Originally Posted by Ultimatecalibur

With 5.1 increasing the level cap to 60, PotD (pre-made/solo), Daidem and the HW Map dungeons should all be accessible. Later in the patch cycle (5.3?) the level cap might be increased to 70 which should unlock HoH and Eureka.



I believe weapon damage isn't used in the BLU damage calculations. They have a different damage formula that based on the Blue's INT and the potency of the ability. This was done so that they didn't have to create a bunch to new weapons.

The issue I have with the blue mage's cane is SE doesnt see it as a weapon, ok fine, then give it stats like you would the any other accessory. But my main choice is since the cane is part of the blue mage gear & in the weapon slot, then treat it like a weapon. Give the cane the intial stats like INT, VIT & allow us to meld materia like critical hit, spell speed, etc.

They should really give us a big buff to Mighty Guard as it's very weak tank stance..

Also give us FFXI Red Mage's convert

"Upon usage, user's current HP and MP values are switched."

"Amount of converted HP and MP will not exceed user's maximum HP and MP values. If the user has a lower maximum HP or MP value than the current value of the opposite stat, any "spilled over" HP or MP is lost."

I have to wonder what's going to happen two expacs from now, when the level cap is 99 or 100 and the story concludes. Is Blue Mage still going to be on Shadowbringers content?

I suppose the people working on Blue Mage will have something of an easier time by then since they can likely just skip to Level 90 quests due to the lack of any Job Quests for 71 - 80, but still.

I want to give them the benefit of the doubt and say they only did this because they were too far along the implementation already to reasonably drop their plans.
I can only hope Yoshida is still willing to listen to the people that just want to play FFXIV with a Blue Mage. That's all we want. FFXIV, as it is. Not a walled in playpen version where we can only run certain content from 2+ years ago.

At this point, I don't know how much more loud and clear we can tell them what we want

Oh look, significant resources pissed away because SE failed to realize nobody wanted a limited job and they're dumb enough to put in content for this instead of scrapping it entirely to rework it to a full job in 6.0/7.0. Or abandoning it completely.

Fun