So...About Blue Mage

[Irenia]

At this point, non-limited PVE job design has become so genericized and toothless, I would not want that to happen to BLU.

Instead, I would prefer the opposite. Make BLU non-limited *as-is* and bring up every other job to be equally as broken and distinct. Use the PVP designs as a foundation and build out from there.

Screw balance. The evolution of FFXIV has been a gradual heat death as everything approaches absolute zero in the service of "balance". I don't want to play a balanced game, no matter how "challenging," if the individual job fantasies aren't engaging and fun.

Haha, reminds me of the time someone told me that (paraphrasing) "There are only six jobs in FFXIV : Tank, Healer, Melee, Caster, Missile, and Blue Mage. You can choose your flavor of each."

[SeverianLyonesse]

Haha, reminds me of the time someone told me that (paraphrasing) "There are only six jobs in FFXIV : Tank, Healer, Melee, Caster, Missile, and Blue Mage. You can choose your flavor of each."

Really only five, because I can think of at least four flavors of Blue Mage that correspond to Tank, Healer, Melee (Kamikaze), and Missile/Caster (Moon Flute/Matra Magic).