Thread: Thoughts on BLU in 5.1 Discussion after the craze.

1. Do you like BLU now more than before? How do you feel about the job becoming more party orientated?

Less. Its a limited class because it was going to be interesting and powerful, and its really just "drag a bunch of friends through content they dont want to do so you can unlock a lot of new spells, of which, many do the exact same things you already do, just with a different color laserbeam.

2. Are you happy with the limited job system now? Do you feel like BLU is okay as a limited job or do you still want an unlimited one?

Its pointless unless they design a significant amount of new content for imited jobs ONLY accessible by limited jobs, and dont tie that into needing to drag people with no interest through old content.

3. Based on what BLU has now, are you looking forward to more limited jobs?

No.

4. What do you find most enjoyable, the content or the job? Do you think they are the same thing and do you think it can exist independently of each other?

That it levels really fast and I can mostly forget about it after an hour or two. The job could live without the content, someday, in an actually good state.

5. How do you feel about a rewarded mount being placed on the job as the carrot on the stick for the content?

Its one of the dumbest decisions they made with blue mage.

It should be attached to the carnival and/or log completion.

6. Do you still want an unlimited version of BLU? Would you be willing to have the job completely reworked? Do you want a version that is "unlimited" that can use the duty finder and be at the current cap? Are you willing to give up something so that resources and time can be provided to the Dev team to make that happen (could possibly mean giving up a new job at an expansion)?

blue mage should have been an aetherically-infused tank class for Shadowbringers, that has iconic skills of monsters we have killed repurposed into something resembling a real boy, and not as trope mage.

Knock out "caster tank", "Blue mage" in one swoop, and use gunblade somewhere it makes a little more sense.

7. If this is all that BLU gets each expansion, you would be satisfied with it?

No

8. Do you think the overpowered tools that BLU has are necessary for what you invision a BLU to be, even if it would to be unlimited?

No. Their skills arent all that overpowered except LBSting.

9. Did you play BLU more than if it had been a normal job?

No.

10. How do you feel about the continued exclusion of BLU from content like Deep Dungeon, PvP, and Squadron Missions?

It makes no sense at all, given that its entire new gimmick is running all the old instanced content.

1. Do you like BLU now more than before? How do you feel about the job becoming more party orientated?

Not really it has the same issues but worse now, if you don't have skills like Aetherial Mimicry/Angels Whisper/Diamondback you can't do the only content they added which is Savage/Coils but it's more old content they came out with before, it also goes against what Yoshi-P was saying that they didn't want BLUs to be excluded for not having X ability.

2. Are you happy with the limited job system now? Do you feel like BLU is okay as a limited job or do you still want an unlimited one?

No, BLU basically has an actual job rotation so I don't see why it can't be unlimited.

3. Based on what BLU has now, are you looking forward to more limited jobs?

I'm honestly dreading more limited jobs...if this is all we're getting for this xpac for BLU stuff, 1 small patch it's just wasted time.

4. What do you find most enjoyable, the content or the job? Do you think they are the same thing and do you think it can exist independently of each other?

For now just finding the new abilities just like before out in the open world, tacked on with boring carnivale, I don't' really enjoy the job or the content because it's content that was used before just with flashy lights with a carrot to keep you going. I also didn't like the story before and I don't like it in this patch.

5. How do you feel about a rewarded mount being placed on the job as the carrot on the stick for the content?

It's what it is, a carrot on the stick so SE can say: "See!? People love BLU!!" when in reality on Primal I see 1-2 BLU groups for non Savage BLU content I haven't seen a Coil 5/9/final/A4S/A8S/A12S PF group since like maybe 2 weeks ago?

6. Do you still want an unlimited version of BLU? Would you be willing to have the job completely reworked? Do you want a version that is "unlimited" that can use the duty finder and be at the current cap? Are you willing to give up something so that resources and time can be provided to the Dev team to make that happen (could possibly mean giving up a new job at an expansion)?

Yes, I feel like the only reason they won't make it unlimited is because they're trying to keep the "spirit" (using this sarcastically) of BLU alive when in reality everyone knows it can function as an actual job and so many ideas of how it could work at this point it's just denial from the devs.

7. If this is all that BLU gets each expansion, you would be satisfied with it?

I couldn't be anymore disappointed honestly and this patch I did it for a week and again I'm left feeling with that's it?

8. Do you think the overpowered tools that BLU has are necessary for what you invision a BLU to be, even if it would to be unlimited?

BLU overpowered? When? Where?

9. Did you play BLU more than if it had been a normal job?

Yes

10. How do you feel about the continued exclusion of BLU from content like Deep Dungeon, PvP, and Squadron Missions?

I laughed so hard yet again that it's excluded from PoTD, PvP and Squadron I can see that it'd be difficult to have it included but for PotD there's literally 0 excuse to have it not included.

Yet another disappointing BLU patch where this is all we'll get till 6.0 maybe then it'll be a real job until then I'm not touching it again.

Originally Posted by Awful

It's what it is, a carrot on the stick so SE can say: "See!? People love BLU!!" when in reality on Primal I see 1-2 BLU groups for non Savage BLU content I haven't seen a Coil 5/9/final/A4S/A8S/A12S PF group since like maybe 2 weeks ago?

That's kind of an unfortunate result of how BLU has been implemented in the game.

Consider the following: you want to do Savage content with Blue Mage in order to get the Morbol mount. So you throw up a party finder in order to get seven other people together for the content. Unfortunately, you now have to contend with the following issues:

- People who have few spells coming into the fights underprepared.
- People who haven't unlocked Aetherial Mimicry despite the necessity of the skill.
- People who cleared the fight unsynced coming into the fight and having no idea what to do.
- People who haven't unlocked Angel Whisper despite how invaluable it is for this type of progging.
- The party filling up with nothing but DPS because you have no way of seeing other people's roles in advance before going into an instance.

I personally know someone who, while they aren't doing any Raiding, is a Level 60 Blue Mage with only three spells unlocked, and that's including the one you start with. That's the kind of person you could get in a party like this, though, because you have no way of screening someone's spellbook before an instance starts.

So BLU parties have been sticking to recruiting through Discord, much like Baldesion Arsenal. It's too much of a chaotic mess to do it with randoms and hope to catch lightning in a bottle, because chances are good that you're going to get someone who is still spamming Water Cannon even at Level 60.