Many of us who enjoy Final Fantasy XIV are excited for the upcoming Shadowbringers expansion. The blue mage job class has been added. If you played Final Fantasy V, IX, X, and XI you will remember the blue mage job class. Blue mage is an interesting job class because it learns spells from specific enemies by having them use the spell on them in order to learn it. For blue mage in Final Fantasy XIV you start at level 1 and you can level the job to level 50 right now until the new expansion release.
In order to unlock the blue mage the following criteria has to have been met: you must have a mage or war job class that is at least level 50 and your 2.0 main scenario quests must be complete. You will need to travel to Limsa Lominsa and talk to the NPC near the main aetheryte to start the quest Out Of The Blue. This will have you traveling to Summerford to meet a self proclaimed blue mage named Martyn to see if his claims of having blue magic are true.
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| Pirotess meets the blue mage Martyn. |
This is where you get introduced to how blue magic works. There is a cutscene where you have to fight a monster and learn your first blue mage spell. When you finish this part of the story Martyn gives you a full set of blue mage gear to use on your adventures.
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| Quest complete, here's your full set of blue mage gear! |
Just like that blue mage is unlocked and you will get a brief explanation of how blue mage works and how you get spells. Specific enemies have spells that you need to learn. It can take a bit of time and patience as you wait for them to cast the spell you need, but once they do you learn the spell. There are 49 different spells to learn and you can have 24 spells enabled so you need to really think about which spells you want to have for your battles.
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| Blue magic tutorial explanation. |
I did play on blue mage a bit and it is a lot of fun. Fighting the monsters in order to learn spells is challenging, but once you learn those spells, it is pretty rewarding. It is designed for solo play and is a pretty sturdy job class once you get the rest of those spells and get better gear. So get out there and have fun learning those spells!
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| Pirotess ready to learn more blue mage spells. |
I had fun doing the Make It Rain event because it was a nice quick break from adventuring. To do this quest I needed to head to Ul'dah to the main area to talk to the Lalafell who is sad and worrying about not being able to achieve his dream of being Senor Sabotender at the Gold Saucer. Once I talked to him this started the quest, The Sabotender Shimmy.
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| Start of the Make It Rain event quest. |
My adventure took me to the Gold Saucer to encourage the young man for his audition after he learned from the original Senor Sabotender how to move just like the real sabotenders in the game. There were conversation choices where I could offer encouragement to the young Lalafell as he auditioned.
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| The audition begins! |
Once the audition was complete, I was able to talk to the Lalafell again and he was quite happy. The reward for finishing this quest was the Senor Sabotender emote and some tokens that can be used at the Gold Saucer with the various mini games. I had fun doing this event because it is whimsical and a short detour from every day level grinding. If you missed the event, don't be too sad because it will be back next year. Thanks for reading. See you at the next adventure!
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| Pirotess gets a new emote and some tokens. See you at the next adventure! |
*Final Fantasy XIV is available to play on the following platforms: Microsoft Windows and Playstation 4
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