What BLU got this Patch

[Anarnee]

I like the content, and I like how they rebalanced the BLU skills.

My only complaint is there are only three canes for glamour, and we can't dye the AF still??

Running the old stuff as BLU is fun and I love the challenge of some of it... but this would have been the perfect time to add some nice glamour stuff for BLU... Shiva cane, Titan cane? Come on... give me glamour options!!!

[purgatori]

Now that the patch has landed, have any of the changes made it so that you don't need to beg friends (if you have any in game to begin with)/form statics/wait around for ages in party finder in order to unlock all the spells?

[Infindox]

Now that the patch has landed, have any of the changes made it so that you don't need to beg friends (if you have any in game to begin with)/form statics/wait around for ages in party finder in order to unlock all the spells?

Still need others for the harder ones.

[Flay_wind]

So. First impressions. Morbol mount is as good as not being there. It's not PUG'able at all.
I understand that people are still new and not everyone has all the skills (still, judging by the combat sounds at least half of our raid had all ARR primal stuff), but i am not sure where the idea of BLU OP'ness comes from. I've run through all Alexander Normal recently and we melted things. We skipped Tornado Phase on Pepsiman, we skipped the entire detach murder robots phase on Brute Justice. With all BLU team we... didn't quite manage that. Also we wiped on Pepsiman. Because Surprise! only 1 person had Angel Whisper (but more on that later) and they actually died first. Whoops.

Thoughts and what not.
I've mentioned this before, but Loom and Cactguard should totally be an intstacast abilities.
Mimicry is a lot worse than i initially thought. The way it works is just stupid. Changing it, so you can just switch between stances would be super helpful. Or at least being able to just go to the relevant class guild in the city and tagging the guildmaster to get the buff.
Healing stuff being more or less uselss outside of Healer Mimicry is bad.
Tanking mimicry is hilariously bad. ytho.jpg
Gating Angel Whisper behind 30 stages of Masked Carnivale is just stupid. Raise is rather important ability in normal content, and doubly so for BLU, considering how underpowered BLU is in general. It should be accessible a lot sooner. Also say hello to 5 mins recast.
Combo skills that do not work, because hello status immunity.

I can't say i am dissapointed. Baffled and confused maybe.

P.S. If i understood the math correctly Surpanakha is essentially 1400 potency on 2 min recast. That's awesome.

[TheMightyMollusk]

why do you need a sucide skill, just use aoes to kill the enemies or level 5 death which won't slow the party down because they have to wait people to run back to the party.

Self-Destruct and Final Sting were used a lot for cheesing things in the Masked Carnivale (as long as the last enemy died with you, it still counted as cleared).

I mean, the real question is why BLU needs THREE suicide skills.

[KageTokage]

BLU has...issues when it comes to tanking.

They have lower HP then tanks even when accounting for the 20% temporary buff from Devour and they have no personal mitigation cooldowns other then Diamondback as Cactguard can only be targeted on other players. Even with Bad Breath kept up constantly along with Mighty Guard and tank mimicry I'm nearly getting one-shot by tank busters even from normal mode raid bosses.

Their only way to provoke requires melee range which makes tank swapping when it's needed problematic.

Their damage output is laughably low due to how severe the damage reduction from Mighty Guard is.

They feel more like a "master of none" then overpowered like they were implying against anything their CC and instakills don't work on.

[Powercow]

C-can we give feedback on Limited Jobs yet guys? Has the job been out long enough that everyone else can see what a bad idea the whole thing is? Or must we wait another year before asking SE to fix it?

I rather distinctly recall being told that, of course Blue Mage is going to be great and the whole idea is awesome! Then when it came out and sucked, I was told that it'll be awesome with the frequent updates and huge swathes of engaging and well thought-out content it'd be receiving. What's the excuse this time guys? PS3 limitations? "It'll totally be better next update"? At what point is it acceptable to say that, "yeah no the whole concept was flawed from the start"?

[Destati]

why do you need a sucide skill, just use aoes to kill the enemies or level 5 death which won't slow the party down because they have to wait people to run back to the party.

Uhhhh, because sometimes I just like to blow myself up for the hell of it? It was a fun thing to do. Kinda turned off from using it completely now because of that stupid thing.

Also that BS debuff made trying to pop a certain SHB S rank a nightmare.

[TheMightyMollusk]

Uhhhh, because sometimes I just like to blow myself up for the hell of it? It was a fun thing to do.

There's a millenial joke to make here, but it's 4 AM and my brain's still back in bed.

[Flay_wind]

Also, do you know what i want? Actual stats on our weapon. The only difference between our weapon at 60 (800 Allied seals Bomb cane) and any other BLU stick is 2 Materia slots. So, hurray for those 24 substats. And that surely does not impact BLU's damage at all.