So...About Blue Mage

[Soge01]

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Well said, good sir/ma'am. :3

I didn't think about the devs taking away resources from the limited Blue Mage for more focus on the unlimited version over time. I simply thought they could strike a balance between the two, so neither side who likes either one (or both) would be left it in terms of things to do.

But thinking about for a second how the dev team handles the rest of the game, resulting in certain parts of it being left barren and untouched for years in top of years... Grand Companies, Squadrons and our Chocobo companion for example, it maybe wouldn't be for the best to ask for an unlimited Blue Mage. [B]Yet.[/ B] At the very least until their team and the amount of resources they have are far bigger and expansive than they are now to where they can cover more than just a few things in game day the same time. Possibly why the new housing system got shipped out the way it did last month.

[EnigmaticDodo]

While were at it, I find it odd that FFXIV's Blue Mage is relegated to only wear Caster gear. While in FFV, Blue Mages can wear most armors. And the fact that they have a skill that lets them mimic roles I dont see why they arent capable of supplementing said roles with appropriate gear. Just seems like an odd choice.

Would be really cool to see it wear all armors! Blue can do different damage types, and like you said, copy roles. Let them hyper specialize!

I don't see this as a detriment if Blues are going to stay in their limited job nature personally!

[lAurasl]

i dunno if i want it made into a real job or not. i do want it updated and supported, but it's fun to go in and solo dungeons synced im my downtime.

[RitsukoSonoda]

My thoughts on BLU atm include a few things that would probably be more a change to the "limited job" guidelines than specific to the job.
The first is syncing it to the same lvl cap as every other job in game rather than have it be behind and force players to keep an old set of caster gear just for that 1 job.
The second would be allowing it to queue as normal for duties that do not utilize roles to compose a party such as Eureka, Bozja, Deep Dungeons, etc...
The Third would be to make actual use of the BLU "weapon". It doesn't need to have raw stats added to it IMO. Instead I'd rather they do something like make a craft-able BLU weapon from every Trial and raid that provided weapons and instead of raw stats have said weapons provide bonuses to certain spell families, types, or elements.