From the moment I saw blue mage, I saw some potential for things I'd love to do with it.
(Please note, this is not a thread about allowing blue mage to be a regular job.)
1. Deep Dungeon
I want to do POTD fixed party with blue mage! If it means having to make the old achievements unobtainable as blue mage (and make separate achievements for blue), then fine. But let those of us who want to do blue deep dungeons in!
2. MSQ (ish)
I have an alt that I got to ARR part 1 so I could unlock another blue mage (for a side project I'm working on) and I thought it would be really neat to just continue with blue.
Sure, I realize I would be unable to do SB MSQ until the level cap increased and I accept that.
I also realize that any dungeons/trials that are in the MSQ I would need to set up a PF for and I accept that.
What I didn't know, until someone told me, is that apparently blue mages can't do solo instances. Considering that if I fail to bring good actions, the only person being disadvantaged is myself, and absolutely no one else, that makes me sad. Let the player decide whether to tackle it on as a limited job.
Of course I know there's probably a concern that a newer player might not realize the consequences of it and so there are 3 solutions I propose for that:
1 - a warning before every single solo instance that undertaking it as a limited job is not recommended
2 - an account-wide flag. If a person completes certain a certain MSQ on a character, it unlocks the flag to do that MSQ as any character as a limited job.
3 - (the worst option) - allow it only via New Game +. This is the worst option because it means that a person doing a blue MSQ challenge on an alt would first need to go do it on a regular job, but it does ensure no newbies accidentally end up doing MSQ as blue and then realizing they have to go level another job when they reach the level cap.
3. Battle Royale
I'm normally not a big fan of battle royales but when I saw blue mage, that was my first thought. It needs its own little non-serious pvp mode that's blue-only. It's already "balanced" in that everyone has access to the same actions, provided they go learn them, and would not need to have a different set for pvp made. It would be absolutely chaotic as different people would bring different action sets and would just be some light fun.
This would be more like a frontlines than a feast, in the sense that it wouldn't have rankings or seasons, just some lighthearted pvp fun with a daily bonus.
4.Other suggestions
Not really content but...
Can we name our sets? Thanks.
Letting us do command missions would also be welcome. Can be forced to DPS role to make it easier. This way, people who are late to blue mage can still get dungeon actions with 100% sync rate by going with their squadrons instead of waiting in PF forever. Sure it's fine right now because it's active since it just got updated, but eventually more and more people will be "done" (until the next patch) and PF participation will go down.
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(Please note, this is not a thread about allowing blue mage to be a regular job.)
1. Deep Dungeon
I want to do POTD fixed party with blue mage! If it means having to make the old achievements unobtainable as blue mage (and make separate achievements for blue), then fine. But let those of us who want to do blue deep dungeons in!
2. MSQ (ish)
I have an alt that I got to ARR part 1 so I could unlock another blue mage (for a side project I'm working on) and I thought it would be really neat to just continue with blue.
Sure, I realize I would be unable to do SB MSQ until the level cap increased and I accept that.
I also realize that any dungeons/trials that are in the MSQ I would need to set up a PF for and I accept that.
What I didn't know, until someone told me, is that apparently blue mages can't do solo instances. Considering that if I fail to bring good actions, the only person being disadvantaged is myself, and absolutely no one else, that makes me sad. Let the player decide whether to tackle it on as a limited job.
Of course I know there's probably a concern that a newer player might not realize the consequences of it and so there are 3 solutions I propose for that:
1 - a warning before every single solo instance that undertaking it as a limited job is not recommended
2 - an account-wide flag. If a person completes certain a certain MSQ on a character, it unlocks the flag to do that MSQ as any character as a limited job.
3 - (the worst option) - allow it only via New Game +. This is the worst option because it means that a person doing a blue MSQ challenge on an alt would first need to go do it on a regular job, but it does ensure no newbies accidentally end up doing MSQ as blue and then realizing they have to go level another job when they reach the level cap.
3. Battle Royale
I'm normally not a big fan of battle royales but when I saw blue mage, that was my first thought. It needs its own little non-serious pvp mode that's blue-only. It's already "balanced" in that everyone has access to the same actions, provided they go learn them, and would not need to have a different set for pvp made. It would be absolutely chaotic as different people would bring different action sets and would just be some light fun.
This would be more like a frontlines than a feast, in the sense that it wouldn't have rankings or seasons, just some lighthearted pvp fun with a daily bonus.
4.Other suggestions
Not really content but...
Can we name our sets? Thanks.
Letting us do command missions would also be welcome. Can be forced to DPS role to make it easier. This way, people who are late to blue mage can still get dungeon actions with 100% sync rate by going with their squadrons instead of waiting in PF forever. Sure it's fine right now because it's active since it just got updated, but eventually more and more people will be "done" (until the next patch) and PF participation will go down.
Continue reading...