Blue mage wants

[Prince Morrigan]

So I been thinking about how a blue mage would be played in FF14, and it sort of dawned on me.
sort of.
A blue mage would have three stances, with their abilties being changed depending on the stance they are in. In a sense they would be the first pure hybred class.
The stances of course would be Tank stance, DPS stance, and healer stance, just rplace the names of the stances with something blue mage related.
In a sense the blue mage would be like the druid from warcraft, only instead of shape shifting it would use beast mage it gained from training along side the beasts of the world.
The blue mage abilites would change on how they work depending on the stance.

How would one gain this blue mage class? From the beast tribes of course, or rather one lone member from each of the tribes.

The weapon that a blue mage would use, would be a Bo Staff, which depending on the stances, would be used in a different way.

[Narcoleptic Marshmallow]

FFXIV can't have a hybrid class because every job has to perform the same to make all of them desirable and a hybrid job would ♥♥♥♥ at everything. Either that, or it would have to be as good as any tank/dps/healer all in one job.

A FFXIV Blue Mage would be just a regular caster.

[Oberon]

So basically what Healers can already do now, but with a third stance that has no use other than royally pissing off the tank.

[Prince Morrigan]

Diposting pertama kali oleh Shirayuki474:

Blue Mage is more about enemy abblities instead of ''balance'/hybrid' at least in Final Fantasy universe.

enemy skills are every where on the sprectrum, from healer to tanking. White wind for example.

Diposting pertama kali oleh The Mayor of Murder Town:

So basically what Healers can already do now, but with a third stance that has no use other than royally pissing off the tank.

Well I would say that when you que in as a healer you are stuck in the healer stance, same for the other stances.

[Oberon]

Diposting pertama kali oleh Cheshire the gray cat:

Diposting pertama kali oleh The Mayor of Murder Town:

So basically what Healers can already do now, but with a third stance that has no use other than royally pissing off the tank.

Well I would say that when you que in as a healer you are stuck in the healer stance, same for the other stances.

Then they would have to completely redesign how classes are handled if it can be switched with a single ability. Even so, being locked into a single Stance when queued defeats the purpose of having those stances at all. More importantly, you'd need to respec your attribute points and swap entire gear sets when you want to shift roles, which you can't do in combat. The whole thing would be incredibly inconvenient for everyone involved.

[Prince Morrigan]

Diposting pertama kali oleh The Mayor of Murder Town:

Diposting pertama kali oleh Cheshire the gray cat:

Well I would say that when you que in as a healer you are stuck in the healer stance, same for the other stances.

Then they would have to completely redesign how classes are handled if it can be switched with a single ability. Even so, being locked into a single Stance when queued defeats the purpose of having those stances at all. More importantly, you'd need to respec your attribute points and swap entire gear sets when you want to shift roles, which you can't do in combat. The whole thing would be incredibly inconvenient for everyone involved.

True I know, its why I am not a Game devloper haha

[Kiana]

Yeah, much as I love blue mages, and have since Final Fantasy V, I have to say that wouldn't be a very good idea.

Though I've discussed blue mages a lot with my FF XIV playing friends. Pretty much all of them agree that if we get a Blue Mage, it will either be a caster (or range swapping, like the Red Mage apparently is) DPS, that MIGHT have a long CD healing ability (though that may be wishful thinking for White Wind) at best.

Or it would be a buff/debuff heavy tank, considering the long history of having to get punched in the face to learn how to punch things in the face. (Literally, in the case of Goblin Punch.)

But a role swapping job just does not work with the system as it currently is. Just like how a healer in cleric stance is not a DPS, they're a healer that can put out a bit more damage than normal. The same principle applies.

[Neiker]

Blue mage you wont gets.

If you want ahybrid class redmage was your last hope....Red mage is a full dps, your last hope went down on the hill on flames.

[xyz]

Diposting pertama kali oleh Cheshire the gray cat:

So I been thinking about how a blue mage would be played in FF14, and it sort of dawned on me.
sort of.
A blue mage would have three stances, with their abilties being changed depending on the stance they are in. In a sense they would be the first pure hybred class.
The stances of course would be Tank stance, DPS stance, and healer stance, just rplace the names of the stances with something blue mage related.
In a sense the blue mage would be like the druid from warcraft, only instead of shape shifting it would use beast mage it gained from training along side the beasts of the world.
The blue mage abilites would change on how they work depending on the stance.

How would one gain this blue mage class? From the beast tribes of course, or rather one lone member from each of the tribes.

The weapon that a blue mage would use, would be a Bo Staff, which depending on the stances, would be used in a different way.

they are not introducing hybrid stances. the best way they might do it as a healer with dps, most of beast tribe moves are used by other creatures/classes anyway and any blue mag skills would probably be tied to quests if they did it

[Thighs & Glasses]

http://www.finalfantasyd20.com/ffd20/sapphire-magister.html just leaving this here. this is a way to do Blue Mage.

[Oberon]

Diposting pertama kali oleh Spag:

http://www.finalfantasyd20.com/ffd20/sapphire-magister.html just leaving this here. this is a way to do Blue Mage.

That's how you do Blue Mage in something that is as far removed mechanically from this game as you can possibly get.

[Thighs & Glasses]

Diposting pertama kali oleh The Mayor of Murder Town:

Diposting pertama kali oleh Spag:

http://www.finalfantasyd20.com/ffd20/sapphire-magister.html just leaving this here. this is a way to do Blue Mage.

That's how you do Blue Mage in something that is as far removed mechanically from this game as you can possibly get.

not really. it could play out similar to summoner...except that instead of summoning the egi, you turn into them.
each quest unlocks a new form, yadda yadda. it's literally just shapeshifting.

[Oberon]

Diposting pertama kali oleh Spag:

Diposting pertama kali oleh The Mayor of Murder Town:

That's how you do Blue Mage in something that is as far removed mechanically from this game as you can possibly get.

not really. it could play out similar to summoner...except that instead of summoning the egi, you turn into them.
each quest unlocks a new form, yadda yadda. it's literally just shapeshifting.

So basically not Blue Mage at all, then.

[Thighs & Glasses]

Diposting pertama kali oleh The Mayor of Murder Town:

Diposting pertama kali oleh Spag:

not really. it could play out similar to summoner...except that instead of summoning the egi, you turn into them.
each quest unlocks a new form, yadda yadda. it's literally just shapeshifting.

So basically not Blue Mage at all, then.

obviously the sapphire magister is a morpher, but I've always viewed the classes as somewhat related to one another and it's as close as we're going to really get without some major system changes.

[Oberon]

Diposting pertama kali oleh Spag:

Diposting pertama kali oleh The Mayor of Murder Town:

So basically not Blue Mage at all, then.

obviously the sapphire magister is a morpher, but I've always viewed the classes as somewhat related to one another and it's as close as we're going to really get without some major system changes.

Related insofar as they're both magical in nature. But otherwise the two are about the same as the Wonder Twins are to Mega Man. One is about transformation, the other is about copying enemy abilities.

[Thighs & Glasses]

Diposting pertama kali oleh The Mayor of Murder Town:

Diposting pertama kali oleh Spag:

obviously the sapphire magister is a morpher, but I've always viewed the classes as somewhat related to one another and it's as close as we're going to really get without some major system changes.

Related insofar as they're both magical in nature. But otherwise the two are about the same as the Wonder Twins are to Mega Man. One is about transformation, the other is about copying enemy abilities.

they're both a sort of creature magic, you mean. very, very different types, yes. but creature magic nonetheless.