If anything, I think it would work solo and it would be really fun to implement it as a job where you go around and learn abilities from every monster, so I’d definitely like to try and do this, but I’m concerned when it comes to playing in a party players would put up barriers if you haven’t learned certain abilities. I think that blue mage is an interesting job because you can learn spells from enemies, but honestly I don’t think that it really fits MMORPG party settings.
Producer Naoki Yoshida has been pretty candid about his concerns for Blue Mage in FFXIV, going as far back as 2014, when he had this to say during a Live Letter Q&A session where Blue Mage came up: This restriction is lifted for pre-formed parties (allowing a Blue Mage to enter, say, a Light Party dungeon while in a party of four), but Blue Mage is otherwise intended to level up in the open world (receiving an experience point boost to encourage this) and partake in its special, Blue Mage-only endgame activity, the Masked Carnivale (a series of “puzzle” encounters centered on using the right Blue Magic to defeat the enemies within).Īll of this naturally invites a question: why does Blue Mage need to be a Limited Job in the first place? Locking an iconic Final Fantasy job out of the majority of FFXIV‘s content could be seen as pretty drastic, so there have to be good reasons for it, after all. Furthermore, Blue Mage (and presumably any other Limited Job that comes in the future) is designed specifically with solo play in mind, with a corresponding distinction: it cannot participate in content involving random matchmaking (such as Duty Roulettes), high-end raids, or any Deep Dungeons. Blue Mage is going to be implemented in an entirely new way, though, as the game’s first (but probably not last) Limited Job.Īs a Limited Job, Blue Mage will start at level 1 (without a base class) with an initial level cap of 50, a cap that will be raised in future patches. Come Patch 4.5, a new job, Blue Mage, will be added to FFXIV, the second time a class and/or job has been added to the game outside of an expansion launch period (with the first time being the addition of Ninja in Patch 2.4 of A Realm Reborn). What applies to Blue Mage will apply to future Limited Jobs in related ways. I’m going to be focusing primarily on Blue Mage here, but I’ll have a bit to say about the new concept of Limited Jobs more generally as we go because the two things are so intertwined. So, first, we need some ground work in place. I hope you’ll bear with me! The First Limited Job As such, I wanted to collect those thoughts in a place better suited for long form exposition than Twitter, which means I’m missing the early boat on this one a little bit. If you follow me on Twitter, though, you probably know that I’m rather frustrated by the way Blue Mage will be implemented in the game come Patch 4.5. My thoughts on the matter are pretty detailed, as I’d been theorizing different ways Blue Mage could become a part of FFXIV for a long time-at least ever since a silly red and blue Easter egg from the Rising event following the launch of the first expansion, Heavensward. Versatile, because they have many types of spells that don't necessarily rely on their MAG stat alone, and restricted, because they do not have many options if you want to cast a certain type of spell.In my summary of the Shadowbringers announcement from this year’s North American FFXIV Fan Festival, I only really touched briefly on my own thoughts. "Mages with the ability to learn monsters' special attacks"īlue Mages are a versatile but restricted job. These are Strago Magus in FF6, Quistis Trepe in FF8, Quina Quen in FF9, Kimahri in FF10 and Raubahn in FF11. Due to this specialty there aren't really any direct equivalent jobs, although in their nature of versatile/hybrid mages the jobs closest to it are the Red Mage and the Mystic Knight.ĭespite the rarity of the job itself, there are quite a few examples of Blue Mages in the series. What makes them distinct is their system of learning abilities from monsters. They usually wield curved sabers and/or rods. Blue Mages are recognizable by their blue attire, be that attire capes or tunics or other clothing. It first appeared in FF5 and has made several appearances since. Blue Mage (青魔道士 in Japanese) is an oddball mage job and a relative newcomer to the series.
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