An Empty Vessel........

[Jeeqbit]

The masked carnivale is fun. Doing log duties and weeklies as a blue mage is fun. Doing old raids and achievement extremes on blue mage is fun. Learning spells can be fun because you can do it in different ways or solo them.

Raiding on a blue mage might actually be more interesting than on normal jobs because you get to bring different abilities depending on preference or the strategy you want to use. We don't have that variable normally. The healers get to have more attacks than real healers and the tanks have to work harder than normal tanks.

[Brightamethyst]

Keep Bluemage the way it is...the second they turn it into a "Normal" Job, is the very second it will stop being Fun.

This. If they wanted to turn BLU into a regular job, balanced against current content, they'd have the strip 98% of what makes it fun and unique.

It's okay for there to be self contained side content outside of the normal gameplay loop.

[Aurikai]

Based on the title, I thought this was going to be a thread about EW.

[Lunalepsy]

....what Blue Mage feels like in XIV.

My account has been deactivated for awhile because I am taking a break (No, the break is not related to hating the game). Before I lose my posting privileges; the more and more I play BLU, the more empty it feels.

It just does not seem like there is much to do. I feel like the entire, "Not being able to complete the story" is way to excessive.....

Isn't FF mostly a story? And one of the prominent jobs cant even do it. BLU needs some changes, imo of course. I don't keep up with XIV feeds, maybe something was announced, idk.....

Blue Mage does not belong in a streamlined game like FFXIV. It's just a fanservice request to appease the fans.

[SamsonBlacke]

Why would you wanna ruin Blue Mage and make it normal?

[aveyond-dreams]

Why would you wanna ruin Blue Mage and make it normal?

Because those of us who want a full job Blue Mage don't want it to be ruined, we'd like to be able to use it outside of Moogle Events. We want a compromise to be found without people being so strict about it. Us getting a side-kit of extra spells we can use in normal content wouldn't take away your carnival, your logs, or your morbol mount. You don't stand to lose anything from this.

[SamsonBlacke]

so you just want them to make a brandnew job and call it boring Blue Mage. well that's kinda lame, don't ya think?

[Jeeqbit]

Because those of us who want a full job Blue Mage don't want it to be ruined, we'd like to be able to use it outside of Moogle Events. We want a compromise to be found without people being so strict about it. Us getting a side-kit of extra spells we can use in normal content wouldn't take away your carnival, your logs, or your morbol mount. You don't stand to lose anything from this.

I think we should be happy that they even let us use it in old savage and extreme fights. That is still raid content and we are still able to do it. Still a blast to do in a static.

[TaleraRistain]

But they'd have to dial it back and tie it to just a single role to make it usable in content with other classes. They would break the tenuous balance in the system otherwise. Red Mage is fun, but it's not nearly the powerhouse it is in single player Final Fantasy games because it had to be muted to be brought here as a normal class. I can't see them not doing the same with Blue Mage.

[Anura]

so you just want them to make a brandnew job and call it boring Blue Mage. well that's kinda lame, don't ya think?

Isn't blue mage boring already? Or maybe you just find fun to run old irrelevant duties and use a complete braindead rotation that makes dancer look like the hardest class in the history of MMORPG. The class is in a sad state, it hasn't received new content in fuck knows how long, but being able to solo old extreme trials is NOT boring, hmm? I wish they'd just delete this bastardized thing from the game.