What do you think about the idea of a battle royale mode just for Blue Mages? Does it sound fun or something the development team should rather avoid? Let us know in the comments.
Yoshida also announced that his MMORPG will probably not receive any of the classic Final Fantasy jobs in the future:
Final Fantasy XIV: Head of the MMORPG crushes fans’ hopes for their favorite jobs
What do you think about the idea of a battle royale mode just for Blue Mages? Does it sound fun or something the development team should rather avoid? Let us know in the comments.
Yoshida also announced that his MMORPG will probably not receive any of the classic Final Fantasy jobs in the future:
Final Fantasy XIV: Head of the MMORPG crushes fans’ hopes for their favorite jobs
What do you think about the idea of a battle royale mode just for Blue Mages? Does it sound fun or something the development team should rather avoid? Let us know in the comments.
Yoshida also announced that his MMORPG will probably not receive any of the classic Final Fantasy jobs in the future:
Final Fantasy XIV: Head of the MMORPG crushes fans’ hopes for their favorite jobs
Director of Final Fantasy XIV, Naoki Yoshida, talked in an interview about a crazy idea that the developers had for the MMORPG’s PvP. They considered a battle royale mode that would only be accessible to the job Blue Mage.
With patch 6.1, there came significant adjustments and changes to the PvP in FFXIV. A new 5v5 mode called “Crystalline Conflict” was released and was well received by many players. However, the path to this was long.
The planning phase alone lasted a whole year, and the development team designed and discarded a whole range of ideas for overhauling the PvP.
This is what Yoshida says: Director Naoki Yoshida is known for enjoying discussing the internal development processes within his MMORPG. In an interview with the Japanese online magazine gamer, he shared that the development team had some unusual ideas during the planning phase for the new PvP.
The most unusual was the idea of a battle royale mode that only the job of Blue Mage could participate in:
[…] According to the original plan [for the new PvP], there were various ideas such as “PvP-only-for-Blue-Mage.” The idea was that it would be a battle royale-style mode in a massive arena. The arena would then keep shrinking, but instead of picking up weapons, players would use the learning abilities of the Blue Mage and fight with the spells they had learned.
Naoki Yoshida
In other ideas, the number of jobs allowed for PvP was to be reduced from 19 to 8, presumably for balance reasons. However, the PvP team opposed this because it would limit players in their choice of favorite jobs.
What’s special about Blue Mages: The “restricted job” Blue Mage has a unique position in FFXIV. Unlike other jobs, it can only reach level 70 out of 90. Additionally, it must venture out into the world and learn its spells from monsters by having them use their abilities against it in combat.
Currently, there are 104 spells and they can be everything: from normal physical attacks to CC effects, to over-the-top powerful skills that cause instant death. Accordingly, the Blue Mage is not balanced and is not meant to be, as it is not allowed in the majority of the “normal” content of FFXIV.
Content that does not allow Blue Mages also includes PvP. Instead, Blue Mages can participate in the solo challenge “Great Masquerade” or complete some dungeon and raid content up to level 70. But only if they are in a group with other Blue Mages.
“Give me a reason for my Blue Mage static to come together again.”
These comments exist: Since Blue Magic is more of a side content, the comments from users about Yoshida’s story from the developer’s back room were rather rare but quite positive.
In a thread on reddit, several users expressed that the idea sounds “unironically good.” In the original thread where Yoshida’s interview was translated, the top comment said:
He should never have mentioned the Blue Mage battle royale. Now people won’t stop begging for it until it’s released.
zeth07
In the comments below, various users agree with him and comment with “Okay, but I want it” or “That would be the first battle royale I would actually play […]” The idea seems to find some resonance in the community.
The desire from the community is understandable: A problem that Blue Mage fans face is the relatively small amount of content that the job receives regularly. The level cap increase and new spells to collect have occurred about once a year, and the next Blue Mage update has not yet been announced.
While Blue Mage groups can enter raid content like Bahamut or Alexander at the appropriate levels, once the first victory is achieved, there is no incentive to grind the content.
Reddit user InternetFunnyMan1 comments on the situation as follows: “Give me either PvP for Blue Mage or give me a reason for my Blue Mage static to come together again.”
A PvP mode for Blue Mages would be a type of content that theoretically has no end, as each match in PvP plays out differently.
Yoshida also announced that his MMORPG will probably not receive any of the classic Final Fantasy jobs in the future:
Final Fantasy XIV: Head of the MMORPG crushes fans’ hopes for their favorite jobs
What do you think about the idea of a battle royale mode just for Blue Mages? Does it sound fun or something the development team should rather avoid? Let us know in the comments.
Yoshida also announced that his MMORPG will probably not receive any of the classic Final Fantasy jobs in the future:
Final Fantasy XIV: Head of the MMORPG crushes fans’ hopes for their favorite jobs
What do you think about the idea of a battle royale mode just for Blue Mages? Does it sound fun or something the development team should rather avoid? Let us know in the comments.
Yoshida also announced that his MMORPG will probably not receive any of the classic Final Fantasy jobs in the future:
Final Fantasy XIV: Head of the MMORPG crushes fans’ hopes for their favorite jobs
