It should be a long-term goal to make Blue Mage a real job

[Styrmwyda]

Also, posted this as a thread a while ago, but I wish there were easier difficulty versions of Stages 20, 30, and 31 of the Masked Carnival so people can get on with the story, as while other jobs allow you to choose a lower difficulty setting after dying/ failing a solo duty, you cannot do that as Blue Mage.

No thank you, blue mage is perfect as is

I wouldn't go as far as to say that, though.

[Styrmwyda]

Also some themed weapon glamours would be cool. Like, I want a Shire (Level 60 Tomestome Gear) Blue Mage Staff, for example.

[GrizzlyTank]

Once Martyn has been replaced by the WoL or P'yandih as guild leader.

[Brightshadow]

I know this has been requested many times but I still believe a duty set for magic DPS would be a great solution to the BLU “limited situation” maybe customizable spell slots based on spells that fit that slot criteria to keep the BLU flavor. As for the existing BLU overpowered design they could just continue to limit it by 10 levels.

So how could this work?
1.) Beat a level 70 or 80 quest that is only unlocked when all required spell criteria for the spells slots have been obtained including a brand new limit break spell such as Demi-Ultima.
2.) Talk to a BLU NPC that is capable of tapping into the aether of your soul crystal allowing you to switch from Blue Mage (Seal) (10 levels below cap) or Blue Mage (Unseal) granting you the duty set.

We know it’s possible to implement a duty set they have done it for PVP and with performance If BRD could have the best of both worlds why can’t BLU.

[MilkieTea]

Really tired of people assuming software developers are a fungible resource and that the same graphic designers who make characters are the ones designing battle content and ultimates

This.

3D designers and riggers ≠ Software devs.

[Gobio]

While I personally don't mind opening blue mage to duty finder content, maybe limit 1 per dungeon and 2 per trial or something.

But I think they should double down on limited job, add beast master. allow blue mage to group with best master only. And instead of time gating them so far behind, time gate them 1 patch behind. like they can actually do shadowbringer content, just not the first few months. After the hype of 'real' job doing the content is over, the bored people can play blue mage, beast master and maybe later puppet master at a very low design cost to re-do all the content...

[Kaliesto]

I like Blue Mage for the fact that it wipes out FATES like those were nothing as compared to other jobs it takes a few minutes to do, and FATES are not the most engaging thing in this game most of the time.

[Shurrikhan]

I like Blue Mage for the fact and wipes out FATES like those were nothing as compared to other jobs it takes a few minutes to do, and FATES are not the most engaging thing in this game most of the time.

So, because it, effectively, breaks content -- often making it impossible for other jobs to participate (to the point of silver or better rewards)?

Don't get me wrong, FATEs as presently designed kinda suck, and getting through them faster is quite the personal benefit, but if an unfair advantage is the primary thing going for a given toolkit...

[Kaliesto]

So, because it, effectively, breaks content -- often making it impossible for other jobs to participate (to the point of silver or better rewards)?

Don't get me wrong, FATEs as presently designed kinda suck, and getting through them faster is quite the personal benefit, but if an unfair advantage is the primary thing going for a given toolkit...

Its one of those things IMO, I can't stand FATES most of the time and BLUE helps dealing with that little problem when I want to try to get something.

If FATES were honestly fun then yes I would call Blue Mage to be nerfed.

[Bright-Flower]

It's fun side content. And I think that's fine personally. Jobs they add as limited jobs are likely things they weren't going to add as normal jobs anyway.

You could make blu as a normal job, sure. But that would mean giving it a standard set rotation/toolkit and a job gauge and making it play by the same rules as every other job. It could be done. But I think it's good to have side content like limited jobs. Not everything has to be about the loot treadmill, I think having some things like this are good for the game.

It's true that blue mage, and characters obviously inspired by blue mage like Quina and Strago, have had varying ways of learning the spells. But it's also true that there's always been a collection aspect to it, whatever the method is. And as a normal job they'd be limited to leveling up and the occasional job quest. The LORE of the job could be tied to studying monsters and mimicing them but the actual collection aspect would be missing as a normal job.

Which could have worked. Every job, to varying degrees, is changed in FFXIV to fit into the mold. From minor things like black mages having different functions for fire/lightning/blizzard spells instead of them all being the same spell with different elemental attributes. To bigger changes like dark knight losing its hp sacrificing to focus tanking, or summoners having more persistent WoW style pets. (Though they've been trying to improve on this aspect the last couple expansions.)

But I think a big part of the appeal of blue mage would be lost if they fit it into that mold and lost the collection aspect. And for better or worse this isn't the kind of game where they're going to design a main job that's 'that' different from the others and require so much extra work to get its full toolkit available.