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

The thoughts of a Level 30-ish BLU:
-For a job that is suppose to be in-and-of-itself solo-content, it's kind of weird that you have to unlock abilities via dungeons and trials, things that are suppose to be done with a party.
-I don't know if there is much of a rotation for higher level content but at lower levels, you just do your buffs and debuffs, put things to sleep, and spam one or two damaging spells.
-At first, killing higher level things by putting them to sleep then killing them with one or two buttons feels cool but after a while, it's just spammy.
-The rewards from the Carnival don't look that enticing to me to level the job up and do it regularly.
-BLU looks dapper as hell though... >w>

Only good thing about Blue mage is self destruct.

Originally Posted by Driavna

I will say something about savage and ultimate: is recycled content from normal mode and old fights. I know there are a few differences here and there but I don't think can be compared, mainly because I'm pretty sure BLU was aimed to the general public while savage/ultimate is aimed to a very specific demographic.

Last I heard, starting from Alex, Savage is designed first, and then mechanics are stripped out or simplified for normal.

Also, they keep trying to broaden the appeal of Savage to the general playerbase. That's why we haven't seen another Midas and Eden is probably the easiest Savage tier so far.

Differences in demographics is a thing, but no job has 100% buy in from the playerbase and SE may actually regard BLU and limited jobs as niche content for a specific audience.

I just don't get why BLU is so weak if limited jobs are meant to facilitate solo play. If you take away the cheesy stuff, even with major support spells up and primal skills BLU's rotation does the damage of a normal ilvl 50 job.

I glad how SE is role out the limit jobs I accept this one battle nobody will force SE to change their mind on

I'm kind of curious how they're going to handle Primal abilities going forward. Are they going to keep adding them and have them as straight up upgrades to the ARR ones? Are they going to share GCDs? Will there not be new ones? I feel like it'll get bloated if they keep overlapping GCDs, but I doubt you'll be able to, say, make hotbars of nothing but OP Primal skills by the end of the game.

Originally Posted by Berteaux_Braumegain

I'm kind of curious how they're going to handle Primal abilities going forward. Are they going to keep adding them and have them as straight up upgrades to the ARR ones? Are they going to share GCDs? Will there not be new ones? I feel like it'll get bloated if they keep overlapping GCDs, but I doubt you'll be able to, say, make hotbars of nothing but OP Primal skills by the end of the game.

I think it's going to be the same as in ARR in that we'll getting six new abilities but they'll have shared cooldowns so you can only pick three of them total.