What would you like to see for your job: Blue Mage Edition!Follow

Since the job forums have been pretty inactive for awhile, I thought I'd start a new topic in each devoted to things you'd like or wish that Square Enix would do with each job. They can be legitimate things you'd like to see, or they could be absurd, and, while they can be, they don't have to be any serious or groundbreaking changes you think each job needs, just something you think would improve them a bit in some form. Just try to keep the topic clean and drama free (emphasis on try). Just have some fun with this and let your ideas soar.

Though it's a big factor in the lore of the job and we see it a number of times in cutscenes involving them, why doesn't our eye glow when we cast Blu spells? We have an Ahriman Lens imbedded into our eye just like Raubahn does, and in cutscenes we see it glow, so why couldn't, in our casting animation, our eye glow?

More set points and slots wouldn't be too much to ask, would it? lol

I heard a murmur about barbed crescent and vapor spray being ninja fixed recently, but I don't know how accurate it is. Haven't been on in a couple months.

Please god more set points/slots. Perhaps a JA on a one minute timer where we could select from any spell we have on our list, that would be nice for something like a buff that we don't necessarily want to use set points for, or a spell to close CA, that we otherwise don't use a lot.

Perhaps lower the set points on a few spells and open up more slots? Even that would be nice.

Widescan ability available through spell combos.

I'll second/third/fourth those calling for more accuracy on additional effects and MINIMUM 1.5 minute duration of all buffs (feather barrier is SO STUPID)

Can diffusion be on a lower timer? Or can we have a second JA like diffusion so that we can buff our allies just a little more? Would love to keep fulltime full strength AOE haste on everyone.

Also why is exuviation a self target only spell?

-Remove "party only" restrictions on cure spells

-allow more spells to be cast on party members without job abilities

Edited, Oct 1st 2012 11:21am by Olorinus

Make the new 2 hour morph us into soulflayers already!

Better yet, let any blue spell work if the stagger is blue magic, similar to the neo-Dynamis magic stagger system.

Azure Lore is quite nice now.

That's more a product of our better gear, external buffs and native DWIII allows for the awesomeness of /WAR. BLU's melee damage has simply grown by a larger amount then it's spell damage since 75. The reason BLU spells take a sudden nose dive on VT+ mobs is LCF kicks the moderate yet unbuffed Blue Spell Attack in the ballz and forces it under 1.0 cRatio. You used to see the same drop in melee damage at 75 with /NIN.

Edited, Oct 11th 2012 11:08am by saevellakshmi

I would like to see it made easier to set your BLU spells. Right now, you have to fumble through almost 200 spells and hope you don't forget anything. On top of that you have to memorize all the job traits, BLU VW procs, etc. If you could have pre-made macro-like templates of common spell sets you would like, one button press could swap them. BLU is the only job that doesn't have access to all of its spells at once. At least make it easier to swap them... and while they are at it, maybe reduce the cooldown to 30 seconds.

If all of this is too much for them to do, then add more set points and slots.

Spell templates would be nice.

Upping buff durations is also good, but something I'd advocate for all classes with buffs, really.

Food offering ATK and Blue Magic ATK would be welcome for harder prey. Maybe adjust Minuets and Chaos Roll to improve such, as well.

Simplifying VW, while more a QoL issue, would also be nice. I'd prefer more for this horrible event to just antiquated over time and forgotten, though.

Hard to say no to more set points. I'd honestly like to see a lot of overhauls to the useless spells, both in function and trait potential, but that's basically asking SE to tweak over 100 things.

Otherwise, I'd say BLU is in a pretty good place comparative to other jobs. It got a lot of love post-75, but I can't say the same for a certain other hybrid class.

I completely agree that a five, or even ten, minute recast on a job ability like that would be fantastic, but I can just about picture Camate's response as to why the developers planned it that way so that a blue mage would have to plan ahead for the situation and set spells appropriately -- as such, they have no intention of removing that element.