@@WrexsolToob I have a hard time even with the bots so I sometimes practice when I'm waiting in queu as dps. Since it's with bots it doesn't really matter if it pops in the middle of a round.
2000 Rating player; Mahjong isn't as complex as it seems the just fail to teach you the core and what you want. 4 sets (3-3-3) or runs (3-4-5) of 3 and a pair in the same suite. Where it gets new players is Chi and Pon and sometimes Kan because then you need more specific things to win the round it's why the hints will say Pass when they show up. So just aim for a mix of 4 sets and runs and one pair the other stuff will come in time.
theres something called invite to party lmao. That way they do the work, and the rest of the party gets the same drops. If you're that anti social to the point of being a digital hermit you might as well level it yourself
I actually really like the idea of having the job be at max level (or have the level be the amount of spell you have, not stat gain, purely visual). They also should really lean into Blue Mage being THE job for soloing content because Blue Mage AS A CONCEPT is pretty fun, and (this might be an unpopular opinion) limited jobs AS A CONCEPT is pretty fun. Jobs that break the rules are do things differently is fun! Never being able to queue for content, even in a special blue mage queue (let it happen SqE) isn't.
Yeah blu is in a weird spot where its busted but at the same time not really Theres still a lot of mobs/bosses that have straight up immunity to the instant death spells both in dungeons and the overworld/fates and i find it to be rather annoying they are stuck in the middle not making it completely busted but also making it play like a normal job so it doesnt get the full benefit of either option. If theyre not gonna let blu reach its full potential being THE solo job then i rather they make it a regular job and just lock DF queues until ylu learn all available spells or something
Tbf the only solo content they had was the carnival and lvling in the over world, which both did not last very long so ofc it wasnt very fun But now they have more spells/tools to solo dungeons, trials and raids from recent patches
I think the current system of BLUs being forced to use party finder or other recruitment methods is best. Unless doing a BLU duty roulette gives insanely good rewards, I don’t think enough people would use it. Bringing us to our current situation.
The real reason to do BLU mage is to get moogle tomestones in Aurum vale with 6 minute runs. And for those runs you don't need any hard to get spells, just rams voice, UV, and missile
I wish they allowed blue mage to level to max level but forbid them to enter max (or current patch's) level of content. This way we can gear them up and do unsynched old content with ease but square wouldn't need to worry about balancing them
Yeah, I was really disappointed because of that. I leveled BLU solely because I thought it was the best class for soloing stuff, that their spells are so broken that even a lvl 70 BLU would perform better than my 80 dps. Turns out everything is immune to your good spells, and in any real fight you're better off with a 80 RDM, WAR or PLD. The only use that I found for my BLU was grinding fate for my relics.
@@cynth4941 then you prob dont have matra magic unlocked. Nothing else in the game hits as hard as a bristle matra magic at 1200 magic potency +20% crit and drt. If everything is immune to your "good" spells that means you don't have the good spells
@@TheTroubleshooter Yes, you do like 30%~40% more damage than other lvl 70 DPS, but not even close to the damage of a lvl 80 DPS with lvl 80 gear. I wanted to get the Firebird mount, have to do all those lvl 60 unsynced trials, 80 RDM annihilates a 70 BLU, not even comparable in speed.
'"They're different games." GD how badly I wish some ppl in my FC would remember that... We played 11 together as well, and holy shit 5x a day I have to say this exact phrase.
I think the biggest perk of BLU is that you can do content you've done before on normal jobs and it feels totally new and different. Currently grinding for the Morbol mount, and it's a totally different approach to those fights. I will say that tanking as a BLU is extremely uncomfortable. You are either casting blood drain to get mana back, White Wind to get aggro, or Diamondback to not die...or dead because you mistimed your Diamondback for the third time in a row T.T
@@DigiCube4 fucking why? that sounds like the most boring dog shit thing ever..... WTF is the point of equipping gear with different main stats on it AND NEVER PRESSING A SINGLE BUTTON? this is hands down one of the worst ideas i've ever heard lol
I've had a wild experience. Carnivale was excruciating, but worth it for Angel Whisper. I jumped into Alliance raids once I got a good feel for the mimic roles and the first alliance raid I found Blue PF doing was Orbonne. note sure how it measures up against MINE runs, but I definitely think Blue just breathes new life into the old stuff it touches
I do want to say that there is something that makes the process of leveling/learning spells MUCH easier, BLU Discords. There's one for every DC as well as the one that I mostly interact with that's CROSS DATA CENTER, Blue Academy. These Discords all have lfg channels that a LOT of people will sometimes just help out with stuff if you just ping a specific role. For me at least, it helps further the spirit of the community helping each other out by just checking my DC's lfg channel to see if there's anyone trying to do stuff at that time and just join them and help, especially now that I've gotten all of the major rewards (the Morbol and Azure and Omega title).
PF is quite good to get the spells, most of the times you don't need to wait that much (atleast when I did it 1 month ago). I hated the job until they introduced to get spells guaranteed if whole party is synced. It's quite the QoL job tbh. The game WILL force you to do low lvl content (like yokai watch event) and doing that with BLU is so much better than with normal jobs. Don't forget that a BLU has 4 times the burst than a lvl 80 job so you can do Wondrous Tails so much faster. You can easily kill all lvl 50 extremes without any going invuln.
I don't get the hate, i actually really enjoy playing blu. Finding people to run content with is easy if you join a couple of the blue mage discords. Everyone hates on it for not being able to do current content instead of just having fun.
I think people hate it a lot of times for even more petty reasons. Not just the fact it's not up to current tier content. Most of the hate I see is that they consider it recycling content or hate the fact that it can eventually basically solo everything. There is a big aversion against solo content outside of deep dungeons I've noticed. I think it just opens to door to content people thought they wouldn't be able to do imo because they struggle gettinggroups for the content in the first place Like many people in FF make fun of WoW for the fact you can just go back and solo all content. Which that is basically what blu mage is for FF
Uh oh time for a mahjong guide. Then a chocobo guide. Once you’re there you’ll be forced into guides for specific types of content…maybe like bozja…or…or… EUREKA
I’m away from my PC in Newfoundland myself, but really, I’m only in Eureka for the story. (In other words, a Eureka guide would be funny, but I wouldn’t wish that suffering on my worst enemies.(especially with how dying works there…))
Blue Mage is the single best job for free trial because all jobs are capped at lv 60, so whatever "endgame" is there for free trial can also be accessed by BLUs, except duty finder and PotD.
Honestly if you’re trying to play a generic MMO don’t try blue mage. But if you’re trying to play a Final Fantasy game, this is the go-to. Blue mage is a recurring job or battle system throughout final fantasy series, learning skills from monsters just had me so much fun in every FF that has this mechanics. and the idea of being completely useless at first to being broken is very rewarding imo.
It's the best title. Also blue mage raiding is a blast and worth the effort. It's fun having to invent new strats and do the old fights in a totally new way. All these BLU haters don't understand. :D
Still need to get that title, but my main Blu group is not availible and they are waiting to see what the next mount will be so we can once more prog for it.
Started my Blue adventure a month ago. Was able to get all spells, and get a huge chunk of the Log completed. I did it all through party finder. Its not even 10% as bad as he makes it out to be
thats a load of shit it literally is unless you just happen to be the luckiest person alive, you are pretty much the only door knob out of 321 comments saying that
Blue mage leveling: Yank and Shank (Leveling BLU uses Sticky Tongue to pull aggro, killdozer partner uses Sharpened Knife on the stunned target). Augment with primal spells and CD instant casts as needed.
morbol mount is my favorite mount in the game, not only is it rare because nobody plays blue mage, its actually challenging to do and I felt really accomplished for doing it. Both the rarity and sense of accomplishment makes the mount feels so special to me. Good luck on your journey. I think finding a group that plays blue mage and is actually decent enough at the game to ge tthe morbol mount is half the battle.
Actually, if you think about it, they could've added more limited jobs so you could play all limited ones in their own way together, while regular jobs would be played as usual. (Though it will surely devide playersbase in half, but it would've been MUCH more fun if you had options withing limited jobs)
@@haha-on5fd Leveling, even solo, doesn't take long at all - not sure what all the fuss is about. Plus you gain a big chunk of xp for every spell you learn. It's a matter of hours from 1-50, maybe 10-12 hours total to 70. People powerlevel thinking they're saving time or grind or something but it's such a laughable "grind" I've never bothered to ask for help.
That last clip is hard to watch as a Blue. Might not be the most useful class but I love using it for fate grinding and solo treasure portal shenanigans :D
As someone who is FATE grinding in HW zones for the first (second?) part of the bozja relic grind for all of the relics, Blue Mage is exceptionally useful.
the most fun I've had as blue mage has been doing the omega raids and getting a morbol, but to do either of those things you have to do all this pre prep of clearing all the carnivals (bc you need the ilvl on your useless stick for materia), learning at LEAST 101 spells, and then finding seven whole other people that are just as crazy as you. oh, and if you want BiS you need to finish at least 80% of eureka OR grind out o12s, you know, currently the hardest irrelevant content unsynced. i absolutely love the class + the friends I've made playing it but i understand hating it all
"it takes half an hour to grind to 70 on a beach in kholusia" i did it legit solo and got up to 50 on my own, only asking for help when i needed glower from aurum vale god that was a waste of time
my one hope is that when the BLU cap gets raised to 80 and the second exclusive mount gets revealed (it's gonna happen trust me), it ends up looking so cool everyone jumps on the BLU train
It's fun when it's set up, but as someone currently into his 4th session of wiping bahamut 1 hitting our "tank", it gets a lot less neat when you try to use it for anything other than running dungeons very fast
i think the best remedy for blue mages problem would be simply to add another 2 or 3 limited jobs. make more content for them and more limited jobs to do that stuff with them and it wouldn't feel like such an odd man out. ideally one limited job for each role would be good.
Hopefully people see this. I know it is great to check an instance of blue mage log. But for synced learning parties it is just so much better to bring a healer and maybe a tank. The cooldown on blue mage raise is criminally long. Blue mages get no limit break. These are the choices I have seen wipe or run again. But a few runs with healer they save swift cast and pop those dirt nappers up like a boss. A limit break 3 saved my omega run healer saved till under 5% and popped everyone up just in time to learn spell.
Imagine liking BLU. Also if you're dead when the mob dies you don't learn the skill. If any Blu learns the skill they all do. Pom cure can also be obtained from Shor Kai, Hrasrvelgars dungeon
And they still don't go all out on the spells BLU can have. No Behemoth skills like Meteor or Charybdis. No Shin-Zantetsuken from Odin. No Gigaflare or Terraflare from Bahamut.
Depends on the approach, I leveled getting my spells and always prefer to solo vs a party but I take every chance I get to turn around and help others whether BLU or not because that is the real beauty of BLU. The class was intended to be a fun class with a direction that was unique and due to its power and versatility it makes soloing content fairly easy. So therefore why not turn around and help classes through dungeons with it? Unsynced for completion or synced for xp. BLU is capable of doing both if you know how to use your spells right.
There have been very few things as a BLU that I couldn't solo.. some of the 70 content and Fist of the Son.. since it has a tank swap mechanic. But I suppose if you were crafty enough or went tank spec you might even have been able to solo that.
Tis why it is important to get all the overworld spells first before dungeon spells because you can do acorn bomb > sticky tongue > attack strategies to murder enemies one at a time and bad breath + toad oil for maximum evasion early on... etc
1000 needles is an easy spell to get if you level yourself to 30 first then get it at Southern Thanalan or Eastern Thanalan and with it and the sleep + sticky tongue combo you can one shot or two shot most enemies early on
Condensed Libra isn't really used any more, it's not worth the GCD especially when DPS mimics don't have enough slots to put in 3 different filler spells.
I've known about the means tro power level, but I never can find anyone willing to do it, even when I offer to do it for them in return. So yeah, stuck leveling it the ungodly slow way.
Honestly, the job should have at least be usable in solo PotD and HoH. The job may not be everyone's cup of tea but it's great for what it is, it's major limit is the fact you can't do anything with it. Heck, you can't even random que with other limited users.
They would have to make it so basic instinct doesn't work in PotD and HoH then but I love the idea otherwise. Oh and maybe have the enemies be immune to freeze... because killing all enemies on the floor with the use of 2 skills is a bit too OP.
@@ErwinNieuwenburg True, certain skills are definitely way too powerful so a lock out or enemy immunity would be required on some skills. Though with the job getting new skills each expansion and any rework of skills making old combos not as good I can't help but think it would be easier to just not let it count towards any floor advancement achievements.
that'd be kinda fight dependent really. if debuff cleansing isn't needed, then you can just throw more damage out there instead of having a dead button the whole fight
Blue mage was fun / okay when it released. Now it's obnoxious in fates. Thank God I'm done leveling all my classes so I don't do fates anymore. Resistance weapon : am I a joke to you? Me : kinda.
Blue Mage's implementation in FFXIV is and feels exactly as it is; Something the devs tried their best to try and make fit into FFXIV which only really worked in FFXI. A lot of their skills and abilities are exactly the same, except with one major difference, in FFXI, the Blue Mage is for the most part a battlemage, like the Red Mage; They use exactly the same complex rotations, except the biggest difference is in FFXI they are better executed because it is a slower paced game than FFXIV overall and it's not as clunky because Blue Mages are not forced to use Moon Flute then sit around for 15 seconds doing nothing because janky implementation of abilities. *Because* elemental damage *is still a thing* in Final Fantasy XI, despite in that game too, most blue mage spells follow the same default damage profile and layout as in FFXIV, 80% of the spells are actually still useful instead of being useless outside of Masked Carnival like in FFXIV, because Blue Mage players will swap to them specifically in FFXI for their elemental type so they can min/max their damage on mobs, which is why Blue Mages make the best farming job in the open world in FFXI; Where in FFXIV, farming in the open world consists of "spam Icon/primal AoE spells + The Ram's Voice" in between "The Ram's Voice + Ultravibration" Oh and mimic DPS, always mimic DPS, so you have to start near other players, mimic them *then* go farm, that's important. The problem with Blue Mage is; It's balanced around the Masked Carnival, rather than the main game. Because it is balanced around an elemental damage system which is only used in two places... Masked Carnival and Eureka (and in Eureka you can't even go in as Blue Mage... which boggles my mind because it would actually be useful and a little OP in there) because it was removed from the rest of the game with the release of Heavensward, a solid 3 years before Blue Mage was even added. It means that 80% of the spells are useless in the main game content, the actually good ones are also hard to obtain and require you to get a group to get them done, such as but not limited to, the trials and dungeons. The only possible way you'll ever get a group to do blue mage content is to set one up yourself in Party Finder and prey that other players on are actually interested in doing them with you, good luck convincing your FC or your Static to help you, the only possible way they would is if they *really* like you, are in the same clique as you or have ulterior motives (such as they want to date you, or they want to get the same spells on blue mage or they want their 30 seconds of fame if you're a streamer/ a.k.a a leech).
Now that you've mentioned it you are now obligated to make a mahjong guide for all of us who still suck at it.
My problem with Mahjong: it takes way too long. Okay, second problem: I also suck at it.
@@WrexsolToob I have a hard time even with the bots so I sometimes practice when I'm waiting in queu as dps. Since it's with bots it doesn't really matter if it pops in the middle of a round.
theres a beginner's guide and it's over 3 hours long
Not gonna lie that is what I was thinking. I am fuckin' terrible at it.
2000 Rating player; Mahjong isn't as complex as it seems the just fail to teach you the core and what you want. 4 sets (3-3-3) or runs (3-4-5) of 3 and a pair in the same suite. Where it gets new players is Chi and Pon and sometimes Kan because then you need more specific things to win the round it's why the hints will say Pass when they show up. So just aim for a mix of 4 sets and runs and one pair the other stuff will come in time.
As someone who owns the mount from doing "BLU Mage minigames: Hard mode" the hardest part was finding 7 other people who actually play BLU.
The strongest power of the Blue Mage is ruining the fates experience for everyone else in the entire zone.
Basically ARR relics at the book stage is now relaxing as blue mage
@@untrustingstatue Too bad you don`t get anything out of it
Nothing annoys me faster than trying to get gold comms for drops in Fates, only to see a random BLU walk over and steamroll it entirely.
theres something called invite to party lmao. That way they do the work, and the rest of the party gets the same drops. If you're that anti social to the point of being a digital hermit you might as well level it yourself
@@TheTroubleshooter Who tf would accept party invites from rrandos unless it's a hunt train tho
I actually really like the idea of having the job be at max level (or have the level be the amount of spell you have, not stat gain, purely visual). They also should really lean into Blue Mage being THE job for soloing content because Blue Mage AS A CONCEPT is pretty fun, and (this might be an unpopular opinion) limited jobs AS A CONCEPT is pretty fun. Jobs that break the rules are do things differently is fun! Never being able to queue for content, even in a special blue mage queue (let it happen SqE) isn't.
someone send this to sqe holy shit
Yeah blu is in a weird spot where its busted but at the same time not really
Theres still a lot of mobs/bosses that have straight up immunity to the instant death spells both in dungeons and the overworld/fates and i find it to be rather annoying they are stuck in the middle not making it completely busted but also making it play like a normal job so it doesnt get the full benefit of either option. If theyre not gonna let blu reach its full potential being THE solo job then i rather they make it a regular job and just lock DF queues until ylu learn all available spells or something
Blue Mage was intended originally as solo content, then they realized its not that fun and it got turned into party focused with the blue mage log.
Tbf the only solo content they had was the carnival and lvling in the over world, which both did not last very long so ofc it wasnt very fun
But now they have more spells/tools to solo dungeons, trials and raids from recent patches
I think the current system of BLUs being forced to use party finder or other recruitment methods is best. Unless doing a BLU duty roulette gives insanely good rewards, I don’t think enough people would use it. Bringing us to our current situation.
The real reason to do BLU mage is to get moogle tomestones in Aurum vale with 6 minute runs.
And for those runs you don't need any hard to get spells, just rams voice, UV, and missile
5-6 minutes is just standard, 3-4 if you optimize.
Don't tell me I've wasted dozens of hours in Prae
@@Eric998765 unless you got roulette exp while you were at it. You've wasted hours in Prae
Shoutout to simpleflips
Other reason is just for fun 😅
BLU be like:
"I'm not limited from you....you're limited from ME"
I wish they allowed blue mage to level to max level but forbid them to enter max (or current patch's) level of content. This way we can gear them up and do unsynched old content with ease but square wouldn't need to worry about balancing them
I think the problem is being able to get max level gear for casters the issue. They want you to struggle for those items a bit.
Yeah, I was really disappointed because of that. I leveled BLU solely because I thought it was the best class for soloing stuff, that their spells are so broken that even a lvl 70 BLU would perform better than my 80 dps. Turns out everything is immune to your good spells, and in any real fight you're better off with a 80 RDM, WAR or PLD.
The only use that I found for my BLU was grinding fate for my relics.
@@cynth4941 then you prob dont have matra magic unlocked. Nothing else in the game hits as hard as a bristle matra magic at 1200 magic potency +20% crit and drt. If everything is immune to your "good" spells that means you don't have the good spells
@@TheTroubleshooter Yes, you do like 30%~40% more damage than other lvl 70 DPS, but not even close to the damage of a lvl 80 DPS with lvl 80 gear. I wanted to get the Firebird mount, have to do all those lvl 60 unsynced trials, 80 RDM annihilates a 70 BLU, not even comparable in speed.
I got 30+ skills and level27 before I realized I couldn’t main blue mage.
'"They're different games." GD how badly I wish some ppl in my FC would remember that... We played 11 together as well, and holy shit 5x a day I have to say this exact phrase.
BLU in XI was sexy as hell though... just saying
I think the biggest perk of BLU is that you can do content you've done before on normal jobs and it feels totally new and different. Currently grinding for the Morbol mount, and it's a totally different approach to those fights. I will say that tanking as a BLU is extremely uncomfortable. You are either casting blood drain to get mana back, White Wind to get aggro, or Diamondback to not die...or dead because you mistimed your Diamondback for the third time in a row T.T
And not a single joke about the one reason the rest of us learn BLU (Self-Destruct)!
You mean Return II?
And only for Kugane Tower and that damned lamp post
Too relatable to most of us irl
So you can flex by getting KO'd inside a city.
Now I want the Mahjong guide, you don't know what you've started
"weeaboo poker" is the best way to think of it
I got a limited job idea: the Onion Knight. It can equip any gear regardless of class or level restrictions but can only auto attack.
...mother of god...I WANT IT!!!
@@DigiCube4 fucking why? that sounds like the most boring dog shit thing ever..... WTF is the point of equipping gear with different main stats on it AND NEVER PRESSING A SINGLE BUTTON? this is hands down one of the worst ideas i've ever heard lol
Thats just called Max Level (any class) afk
Watching this the night before I promised I'd help a friend to level blue mage and unlock some spells. I have become regret.
I wish they would let Blue Mage into deep dungeons with their on set of achievements
give them a unique title for 200 floor solo clear like "The cheese stands alone"
@@benjaminbierley2074 or maybe even "The Big Cheese"
Charles Entertainment Cheese
Oh hey, congrats on 50k subs my dude. It felt like just yesterday you were destroying our eardrums celebrating your 10k threshold
This video was just the motivation I needed to keep me going on my hunt for the morbol mount. Thanks chair!
I've had a wild experience. Carnivale was excruciating, but worth it for Angel Whisper. I jumped into Alliance raids once I got a good feel for the mimic roles and the first alliance raid I found Blue PF doing was Orbonne. note sure how it measures up against MINE runs, but I definitely think Blue just breathes new life into the old stuff it touches
I've been having fun Guild Wars 1 flashbacks while hunting for skills - love it! I too love great displays of ZR, so there's that as a bonus as well!
I do want to say that there is something that makes the process of leveling/learning spells MUCH easier, BLU Discords. There's one for every DC as well as the one that I mostly interact with that's CROSS DATA CENTER, Blue Academy. These Discords all have lfg channels that a LOT of people will sometimes just help out with stuff if you just ping a specific role. For me at least, it helps further the spirit of the community helping each other out by just checking my DC's lfg channel to see if there's anyone trying to do stuff at that time and just join them and help, especially now that I've gotten all of the major rewards (the Morbol and Azure and Omega title).
PF is quite good to get the spells, most of the times you don't need to wait that much (atleast when I did it 1 month ago). I hated the job until they introduced to get spells guaranteed if whole party is synced. It's quite the QoL job tbh. The game WILL force you to do low lvl content (like yokai watch event) and doing that with BLU is so much better than with normal jobs. Don't forget that a BLU has 4 times the burst than a lvl 80 job so you can do Wondrous Tails so much faster. You can easily kill all lvl 50 extremes without any going invuln.
A mahjong guide would actually be pretty good thanks
There are a number of blue mage communities focused on both blue mage content and blue mage learning ^^ I recommend Blue Academy, nice fellows :3
I actually saw someone use a BLU group to progress their MSQ.
BLU mains are out there, waiting.
I've done that on a alt, grabbed myself blue mage asap, and did my msq with it!
I don't get the hate, i actually really enjoy playing blu. Finding people to run content with is easy if you join a couple of the blue mage discords. Everyone hates on it for not being able to do current content instead of just having fun.
There are blue mage discord?
I think people hate it a lot of times for even more petty reasons. Not just the fact it's not up to current tier content. Most of the hate I see is that they consider it recycling content or hate the fact that it can eventually basically solo everything. There is a big aversion against solo content outside of deep dungeons I've noticed. I think it just opens to door to content people thought they wouldn't be able to do imo because they struggle gettinggroups for the content in the first place
Like many people in FF make fun of WoW for the fact you can just go back and solo all content. Which that is basically what blu mage is for FF
Because they haven’t unlocked it or didn’t get very far and see how much fun people are having playing the job. Jealous
Uh oh time for a mahjong guide. Then a chocobo guide.
Once you’re there you’ll be forced into guides for specific types of content…maybe like bozja…or…or…
EUREKA
I’m away from my PC in Newfoundland myself, but really, I’m only in Eureka for the story.
(In other words, a Eureka guide would be funny, but I wouldn’t wish that suffering on my worst enemies.(especially with how dying works there…))
SIX MONKS!!!
Blue Mage "content" is fantastic. It's totally not just old content that people do unsynced solo on other jobs.
Blue Mage is the single best job for free trial because all jobs are capped at lv 60, so whatever "endgame" is there for free trial can also be accessed by BLUs, except duty finder and PotD.
But since trial players cant make party but be invited, needs planning/Discord
Honestly if you’re trying to play a generic MMO don’t try blue mage. But if you’re trying to play a Final Fantasy game, this is the go-to. Blue mage is a recurring job or battle system throughout final fantasy series, learning skills from monsters just had me so much fun in every FF that has this mechanics. and the idea of being completely useless at first to being broken is very rewarding imo.
Still rocking my azure and omega title that I'm pretty proud of, even though no one knows what it is or the shit I went through for it :')
ah. reminds me of Z
It's the best title. Also blue mage raiding is a blast and worth the effort. It's fun having to invent new strats and do the old fights in a totally new way. All these BLU haters don't understand. :D
Still need to get that title, but my main Blu group is not availible and they are waiting to see what the next mount will be so we can once more prog for it.
My man just abbreviated to ZR, legend.
Started my Blue adventure a month ago. Was able to get all spells, and get a huge chunk of the Log completed. I did it all through party finder. Its not even 10% as bad as he makes it out to be
thats a load of shit it literally is unless you just happen to be the luckiest person alive, you are pretty much the only door knob out of 321 comments saying that
Blue mage was the most fun I had in Shadowbringers. *Waves from atop his Morbol mount*
Blue mage leveling: Yank and Shank (Leveling BLU uses Sticky Tongue to pull aggro, killdozer partner uses Sharpened Knife on the stunned target). Augment with primal spells and CD instant casts as needed.
Every video you make is banger, don't stop. :)
Screw the glamour, the Morbol mount is the only reason I'm halfway playing playing BLU when there is nothing else to do. Also, Mahjong Guide when?
morbol mount is my favorite mount in the game, not only is it rare because nobody plays blue mage, its actually challenging to do and I felt really accomplished for doing it. Both the rarity and sense of accomplishment makes the mount feels so special to me.
Good luck on your journey. I think finding a group that plays blue mage and is actually decent enough at the game to ge tthe morbol mount is half the battle.
Actually, if you think about it, they could've added more limited jobs so you could play all limited ones in their own way together, while regular jobs would be played as usual. (Though it will surely devide playersbase in half, but it would've been MUCH more fun if you had options withing limited jobs)
I’ve leveled 4 characters to 70 BLU and learned most spells on all of them just for the fun of it, ask me anything.
how long did it take
@@haha-on5fd Leveling, even solo, doesn't take long at all - not sure what all the fuss is about. Plus you gain a big chunk of xp for every spell you learn. It's a matter of hours from 1-50, maybe 10-12 hours total to 70. People powerlevel thinking they're saving time or grind or something but it's such a laughable "grind" I've never bothered to ask for help.
leveling with a friend reduces it to 20% of the time
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That last clip is hard to watch as a Blue. Might not be the most useful class but I love using it for fate grinding and solo treasure portal shenanigans :D
Can't wait for the beastmaster guide.
As someone who is FATE grinding in HW zones for the first (second?) part of the bozja relic grind for all of the relics, Blue Mage is exceptionally useful.
the most fun I've had as blue mage has been doing the omega raids and getting a morbol, but to do either of those things you have to do all this pre prep of clearing all the carnivals (bc you need the ilvl on your useless stick for materia), learning at LEAST 101 spells, and then finding seven whole other people that are just as crazy as you. oh, and if you want BiS you need to finish at least 80% of eureka OR grind out o12s, you know, currently the hardest irrelevant content unsynced. i absolutely love the class + the friends I've made playing it but i understand hating it all
Seeing you fuck up starboard and larboard bring a tear to my eye
six monks guide when
Lol the "POWER OF SIX MONKs"!!!.
As someone who has never played another FF I absolutely ADORE BLU
Congratulations on 50,000 Chairman! Nice video too.
I unironically love blue mage.
I now officially demand a Mahjongg Maestro guide.
I love blu! Only four more raids til morbol
"it takes half an hour to grind to 70 on a beach in kholusia" i did it legit solo and got up to 50 on my own, only asking for help when i needed glower from aurum vale
god that was a waste of time
my one hope is that when the BLU cap gets raised to 80 and the second exclusive mount gets revealed (it's gonna happen trust me), it ends up looking so cool everyone jumps on the BLU train
Misshapen Chair: This job is trash and a joke
Me: I just think it looks neat man ;-;
It's fun when it's set up, but as someone currently into his 4th session of wiping bahamut 1 hitting our "tank", it gets a lot less neat when you try to use it for anything other than running dungeons very fast
@@TheMansterTruck nah, still neat
i think the best remedy for blue mages problem would be simply to add another 2 or 3 limited jobs. make more content for them and more limited jobs to do that stuff with them and it wouldn't feel like such an odd man out. ideally one limited job for each role would be good.
Hopefully people see this. I know it is great to check an instance of blue mage log. But for synced learning parties it is just so much better to bring a healer and maybe a tank. The cooldown on blue mage raise is criminally long. Blue mages get no limit break. These are the choices I have seen wipe or run again. But a few runs with healer they save swift cast and pop those dirt nappers up like a boss. A limit break 3 saved my omega run healer saved till under 5% and popped everyone up just in time to learn spell.
a sprout with the legend title? pog
Imagine liking BLU.
Also if you're dead when the mob dies you don't learn the skill. If any Blu learns the skill they all do. Pom cure can also be obtained from Shor Kai, Hrasrvelgars dungeon
Imagine NOT liking blue lol. What a shot take
almost the third wednesday of january let's fucking go!!!!!
Blue mage isn't a job, its a hobby.
And they still don't go all out on the spells BLU can have. No Behemoth skills like Meteor or Charybdis. No Shin-Zantetsuken from Odin. No Gigaflare or Terraflare from Bahamut.
Which is hilarious because NPC BLUE MAGES CAN LITERALLY USE METEOR AND CHARYBDIS.
For very obvious reasons. Can you imagine the visual clutter from a group of BLU with those spells? Not pretty.
My favorite class in any other ff game, is my most hated in 14.
Morbol Mount for the win.
I picked up Blu mage last Friday and managed to get all 104 spells and the "Violets are Violet" weapon in a little over 2 days
The class glams are just so nice though. And u get that nice pimp cane
So what you're trying to say is that Blue mage is a chad job where as Black and Red mage is for actual femboys. Got it.
Depends on the approach, I leveled getting my spells and always prefer to solo vs a party but I take every chance I get to turn around and help others whether BLU or not because that is the real beauty of BLU. The class was intended to be a fun class with a direction that was unique and due to its power and versatility it makes soloing content fairly easy. So therefore why not turn around and help classes through dungeons with it? Unsynced for completion or synced for xp. BLU is capable of doing both if you know how to use your spells right.
There have been very few things as a BLU that I couldn't solo.. some of the 70 content and Fist of the Son.. since it has a tank swap mechanic. But I suppose if you were crafty enough or went tank spec you might even have been able to solo that.
Tis why it is important to get all the overworld spells first before dungeon spells because you can do acorn bomb > sticky tongue > attack strategies to murder enemies one at a time and bad breath + toad oil for maximum evasion early on... etc
Or Ink Jet
Blindness + Higher Evasion means a lot of attacks might miss
1000 needles is an easy spell to get if you level yourself to 30 first then get it at Southern Thanalan or Eastern Thanalan and with it and the sleep + sticky tongue combo you can one shot or two shot most enemies early on
BLU is delightfully wacky and you can even shoot sweet laser beams out of your eyes with The Look.
8:08 the noise I make when I have to wake up and I realize its monday morning
oh man january was like 8 months ago, I guess I'll be watiting for the the third wednesday of january in 2022
that intro gets me every time
Alternate ending: Now let's get out there, and spam Choco Meteor and Water Cannon within BLU trials and raids
Condensed Libra isn't really used any more, it's not worth the GCD especially when DPS mimics don't have enough slots to put in 3 different filler spells.
NEW CHAIR VIDEO POG
I've so far watched all your class guides, yet have never played ff xiv. Gotta say you're pretty entertaining.
i think im guy shouting 6 monks at the beginning
You can instagib that goobbue boss with 2 missiles.
I've known about the means tro power level, but I never can find anyone willing to do it, even when I offer to do it for them in return. So yeah, stuck leveling it the ungodly slow way.
Condensed Libra doesn't make the cut anymore thankfully so we don't have to worry about filler spells either as much in synched savage content
1:22
XI player here, can confirm this is accurate.
Gear sets? Gear sets??? GEAR SETS???? *FFXI BLU Flashbacks intensify*
7:17 *Cries in queue time*
Reason to play Blue: because it’s fun as fuck.
SIX MONKS
Very accurate thumbnail
Honestly, the job should have at least be usable in solo PotD and HoH.
The job may not be everyone's cup of tea but it's great for what it is, it's major limit is the fact you can't do anything with it. Heck, you can't even random que with other limited users.
They would have to make it so basic instinct doesn't work in PotD and HoH then but I love the idea otherwise. Oh and maybe have the enemies be immune to freeze... because killing all enemies on the floor with the use of 2 skills is a bit too OP.
@@ErwinNieuwenburg
True, certain skills are definitely way too powerful so a lock out or enemy immunity would be required on some skills.
Though with the job getting new skills each expansion and any rework of skills making old combos not as good I can't help but think it would be easier to just not let it count towards any floor advancement achievements.
BLUE MAGE BABY LET'S GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
This is insane and I feel truly sorry for you for going through with this shit.
I've been waiting for this, also grats on the 50k!!
i cracked at "unless its this piece of shit" because ive been there xD
That healing loadout should really have Exuviation for clearing debuffs.
that'd be kinda fight dependent really. if debuff cleansing isn't needed, then you can just throw more damage out there instead of having a dead button the whole fight
ngl, I felt personally attacked by that poetics ring thing, as I've wasted poetics not realizing that before, lol
Through the fire and the flames was so obvious that it caught me offguard lol
Blue mage was fun / okay when it released. Now it's obnoxious in fates. Thank God I'm done leveling all my classes so I don't do fates anymore.
Resistance weapon : am I a joke to you?
Me : kinda.
Blue Mage's implementation in FFXIV is and feels exactly as it is; Something the devs tried their best to try and make fit into FFXIV which only really worked in FFXI. A lot of their skills and abilities are exactly the same, except with one major difference, in FFXI, the Blue Mage is for the most part a battlemage, like the Red Mage; They use exactly the same complex rotations, except the biggest difference is in FFXI they are better executed because it is a slower paced game than FFXIV overall and it's not as clunky because Blue Mages are not forced to use Moon Flute then sit around for 15 seconds doing nothing because janky implementation of abilities. *Because* elemental damage *is still a thing* in Final Fantasy XI, despite in that game too, most blue mage spells follow the same default damage profile and layout as in FFXIV, 80% of the spells are actually still useful instead of being useless outside of Masked Carnival like in FFXIV, because Blue Mage players will swap to them specifically in FFXI for their elemental type so they can min/max their damage on mobs, which is why Blue Mages make the best farming job in the open world in FFXI; Where in FFXIV, farming in the open world consists of "spam Icon/primal AoE spells + The Ram's Voice" in between "The Ram's Voice + Ultravibration" Oh and mimic DPS, always mimic DPS, so you have to start near other players, mimic them *then* go farm, that's important.
The problem with Blue Mage is; It's balanced around the Masked Carnival, rather than the main game. Because it is balanced around an elemental damage system which is only used in two places... Masked Carnival and Eureka (and in Eureka you can't even go in as Blue Mage... which boggles my mind because it would actually be useful and a little OP in there) because it was removed from the rest of the game with the release of Heavensward, a solid 3 years before Blue Mage was even added. It means that 80% of the spells are useless in the main game content, the actually good ones are also hard to obtain and require you to get a group to get them done, such as but not limited to, the trials and dungeons. The only possible way you'll ever get a group to do blue mage content is to set one up yourself in Party Finder and prey that other players on are actually interested in doing them with you, good luck convincing your FC or your Static to help you, the only possible way they would is if they *really* like you, are in the same clique as you or have ulterior motives (such as they want to date you, or they want to get the same spells on blue mage or they want their 30 seconds of fame if you're a streamer/ a.k.a a leech).
It's great for relic grinds. Nobody wants to sync down for FATEs, right?
Personally I'm a Fire Agnon guy.
ITV A chair loses his mind because Blue Mage exists.
Also check out the Masked Carnivale Discord for groups and help as well.
you gotta get the spells when there new , i left it late to get garuda , and i took a while beofre i basicly held a group hostage