Disclaimer - This is not about the actual implementation of the job mechanics
The problem:
Blue Mages need something easier/practical to get into. Something more "pret-à-porter" (ready to play, in this case). You simply can't just log in, change into BLU and dive right away towards action like you can with every other job, because almost everything meaningful to do requires waiting behind a barren Party Finder. This actually makes me worried if BST is ending up having the same fate, of only being a popular content pick during the update months.
Today I've been waiting almost the whole day in the party finder for Pagl'than without a single soul interested. When somebody finally joined, they did help by advertising the party on a Blue Mage discord server, and still had nobody interested. We just gave up.
I say almost everything, because there is the Masked Carnivale's weekly objectives. However, unless you really need Allied Seals, those fights are simply not fun to reclear because they're the very essence of 'puzzle'.
The possible solutions:
a) Let us complete BLU log objectives /SOLO/. Currently a criteria of credit is having a full party of Blue Mages. We do have this neat spell called Basic Instinct that buffs the player while solo, so this would overcome the problem of not having people available to set up a party. In fact, even with this buff on, the content is still way harder to the soloing player, which already makes for a nice challenge.
b) Allow Blue Mages to access other optional content for a solo mode like Deep Dungeons and Field Operations, for example. This probably needs work to adjust the job, but the idea of being locked with spellbooks exclusive to those duties seems good enough for a balancing effort.
c) Reconsider the "BLU battle royale PVP" idea. Or simply port BLU to the normal PVP roster. After all, every job gets changed to be there, there's no technical reason why BLU couldn't. This would mean more ready-to-go content for the job.
d) Make a BLU roulette, by detecting who has the active Aetherial Mimicry to fill in a role. Adding Heliometry/Mathematics tomestones to the reward completion would be a great prize.
TLDR: Blue Mages, despite the job mechanics, need more readily available activities that isn't the Masked Carnivale.
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The problem:
Blue Mages need something easier/practical to get into. Something more "pret-à-porter" (ready to play, in this case). You simply can't just log in, change into BLU and dive right away towards action like you can with every other job, because almost everything meaningful to do requires waiting behind a barren Party Finder. This actually makes me worried if BST is ending up having the same fate, of only being a popular content pick during the update months.
Today I've been waiting almost the whole day in the party finder for Pagl'than without a single soul interested. When somebody finally joined, they did help by advertising the party on a Blue Mage discord server, and still had nobody interested. We just gave up.
I say almost everything, because there is the Masked Carnivale's weekly objectives. However, unless you really need Allied Seals, those fights are simply not fun to reclear because they're the very essence of 'puzzle'.
The possible solutions:
a) Let us complete BLU log objectives /SOLO/. Currently a criteria of credit is having a full party of Blue Mages. We do have this neat spell called Basic Instinct that buffs the player while solo, so this would overcome the problem of not having people available to set up a party. In fact, even with this buff on, the content is still way harder to the soloing player, which already makes for a nice challenge.
b) Allow Blue Mages to access other optional content for a solo mode like Deep Dungeons and Field Operations, for example. This probably needs work to adjust the job, but the idea of being locked with spellbooks exclusive to those duties seems good enough for a balancing effort.
c) Reconsider the "BLU battle royale PVP" idea. Or simply port BLU to the normal PVP roster. After all, every job gets changed to be there, there's no technical reason why BLU couldn't. This would mean more ready-to-go content for the job.
d) Make a BLU roulette, by detecting who has the active Aetherial Mimicry to fill in a role. Adding Heliometry/Mathematics tomestones to the reward completion would be a great prize.
TLDR: Blue Mages, despite the job mechanics, need more readily available activities that isn't the Masked Carnivale.
Continue reading...