Final Fantasy 14: Complete Guide To Playing Blue Mage

The Blue Mage Limited Job can be a ton of fun to play in Final Fantasy 14, but there’s a few things you should know first.

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The Blue Mage is the most unique job in all of Final Fantasy 14. Usually, jobs follow a set path of slowly gaining extra abilities and mechanics as you master them, but the Blue Mage has its own ideas, and it's not keen on following the rules!

Before we get started on the ins and outs of Blue Mage, there are some important things to understand about this Job. In-game the Blue Mage is considered a "Limited Job". This means Blue Mages can't queue for content like other jobs can, they can't access competitive PvP modes, they can't go higher than level 80, and they can't progress the Main Story Quest.

With those disclaimers out of the way, let's take a look at everything you need to know about the Blue Mage Limited Job!

Updated April 12, 2024 by Jacob Whaling: Patch 6.45 has raised the level cap for Blue Mage to 80. With his level cap increase, there are new Spells to learn, new Masked Carnivale stages to clear, and new quests to conquer. We've updated this guide to ensure everything is up-to-date.

How To Unlock Blue Mage

There are several requirements before you can unlock the Blue Mage. First, you must complete the "Ultimate Weapon" step of the Main Story Quest at level 50.

Then, as a level 50Disciple of War or Magic, head to Limsa Lominsa Lower Decks and speak to the Zealous Yellowjacket (X:9.9, Y:11.0).

The Zealous Yellowjacket will give you the "Out of the Blue" quest. Completing this will award you with a Soul of the Blue Mage and introduce you to Martyn the Blue Mage. Completion of this quest will also award you with a Rainmaker staff, equipping this and the Blue Mage soul will activate the job at level one.

Blue Mage Job Quests

Quest	Level	Quest Giver	Spell/Masked Carnivale Requirements	Rewards
Out of the Blue	50	Zealous Yellowjacket		Water Cannon (Blue Mage Spell) Soul of the Blue Mage Rainmaker True Blue Attire Coffer (iLvl 1)
Blue Leading the Blue	1	Martyn
Blue Collar Work	10	Martyn	Blood Drain
Why They Call It the Blues	20	Martyn	Mind Blast
Scream Blue Murder	30	Martyn	Faze
Blue Gold	40	Maudlin Latool Ja	1000 Needles

The Real Folk Blues	50	Maudlin Latool Ja	Glower	The Spirit of the Whalagee Magus's Attire Coffer (iLvl 130)
Turning Over a Blue Leaf	50	Maudlin Latool Ja	Dirty Rotten Azulmagia Masked Carnivale	Azulmagia
Into the Blue Again	50	Martyn
Something Borrowed, Something Blue	53	Martyn	Northerlies
Bolt from the Blue	55	Martyn	Whistle
Blue in the Face	58	Martyn	Exuviation
Blue Scream of Death	60	Martyn	Frog Legs	Blue Mage Log

Blue Cheese	60	Martyn	The Catch of the Siegfried Masked Carnivale	Mask of Azuro
Second-rate Entertainment	60	Martyn
Everybody Was Fukumen Fighting	63	P'yandih	Basic Instinct
Azuro and Goliath	65	Martyn	Tingle
Where the Gold Goes	68	Martyn	Ultravibration
Master of Mimicry	70	Martyn	Aetherial Spark	Mirage Gear Coffer (iLvl 400)
A Future in Blue	70	Martyn	Anything Gogo's Masked Carnivale	Predatrice
And the Crowd Goes Mild	70	Martyn
The Beard, the Myth, the Legend	73	P'yandih	Goblin Punch
Gridania's Most Wanted	75	P'yandih	Schiltron
No Butts About It	78	P'yandih	Rehydration
A New Gold Standard	80	Martyn		Phantasmal Attire Coffer (iLvl 530)
The Brave and the Blue	80	Martyn	A Golden Opportunity Masked Carnivale	Blue-eyes

How To Learn New Spells

As mentioned before, the Blue Mage is different from other professions. They don't learn new spells by just leveling up. Instead, they learn new spells by observing enemies casting them in the wild. After defeating the spell-casting enemy, the Blue Mage has a chance to learn that spell, adding it to their spell book.

You're not guaranteed to learn a Spell even after seeing an enemy cast it. Spells have "difficulty" tiers, ranging from one star to five stars. A one-star spell is easy to learn, but a five-star spell might take you a few tries.

The challenge of the Blue Mage is collecting all these spells, as there are 124 of them for you to learn. You're limited to only 24 spells on your quick bar at a given time, so finding ways to combine these spells is part of the fun of playing the Blue Mage. You can come up with all kinds of creative combos.

On the other hand, the Blue Mage doesn't have a job gauge or complex profession mechanics to keep track of. All you have to worry about is taking the time to collect all the spells, and then equipping the ones you think are best for the job.

You must set spells as Active Actions before you can put them on your quick bar. Up to 24 can be selected, and you can save up to five sets of 24 spells, so you can swap between sets depending on what you're trying to accomplish with your Blue Mage.

The Masked Carnival

The Masked Carnival is a fun activity that only Blue Mages have access to. It's a catalog of arena-based fights that require creative use of your spells to complete. This is a fun way of testing your skills and thinking about selecting the right spells for the job.

Some creatures will have certain weaknesses to a specific element, and sometimes you'll have to use spells that can control or exploit the environment in some way.

Each stage will reward you with gil, Allied Seals, and Tomestones of Poetics.

You can enter the Masked Carnivale by speaking with the Celestium Attendant in Ul'dah — Steps of Thal (X:11.6, Y:13.2) , next to the Miners' Guild Aetheryte .

Blue Mage Log

The Blue Mage Log is a duty list made specifically for Blue Mages. Unlocked after completing the BLU quest "Blue Scream of Death", the Blue Mage Log lets you queue for certain duties with other Blue Mages, rewarding you with gil, Allied Seals, and Tomestones of Poetics.

Additionally, Weekly and Prime Targets are available, which can be defeated to earn a bounty of extra currencies.

How To Level Up Blue Mage

Due to its nature as a limited job, the conventional level-up methods don't apply to Blue Mage. Instead of mainly earning experience through dungeons or roulettes, the Blue Mage gets a massive bonus to experience earned from defeating monsters in the open world. This will be your primary method for leveling up.

You also gain a decent chunk of experience when learning a new Blue Mage Spell , so be sure to learn new Spells as much as possible throughout the leveling process.

Of course, this means that two players leveling their Blue Mages may have drastically different experiences, depending on which spells they learn or where they choose to level up. That said, we've outlined a few good leveling spots for each leveling range below.

Level 1-10: Lower La Noscea, Central Shroud
Level 10-20: East Shroud
Level 20-30: Upper La Noscea
Level 30-35: Eastern La Noscea
Level 35-40: Coerthas Central Highlands
Level 40-45: Northern Thanalan
Level 45-50: Mor Dhona
Level 50-55: Dravanian Forelands, Churning Mists
Level 55-60: Sea of Clouds, Azys Lla
Level 60-65: The Peaks, Yanxia, The Ruby Sea
Level 65-70: Yanxia, The Lochs
Level 70-75: Lakeland, Kholusia
Level 75-80: The Tempest

Best Way To Level Blue Mage

While grinding enemies around your level is always a great idea for Blue Mage, there's a method for quickly blasting through your Blue Mage levels, and only requires a single spell.

In the Norvrandt Slope region of The Tempest, around (X:25, Y:6), there are two enemies you can find — Deep-sea Leech and Clionid.

To power level on these enemies, put the Deep-sea Leech to sleep using the Role Action Sleep or the Blue Mage Spell Acorn Bomb. Then, use any spell to draw aggro on a nearby Clionid.

Flying Sardine is an instant-cast interrupt that is useful for pulling enemies.

Now, lure the Clionid toward the sleeping Deep-sea Leech. When the Clionid gets enough, it will eat the Deep-sea Leech, instantly killing it and giving you the experience as if you had killed it yourself.

Be careful not to get hit by either the Deep-sea Leech or Clionid, especially if you're under level 75. After aggroing the Clionid and letting it eat the Leech, run away!

There is an abundance of these two enemies all around the area, making this the best way by far to level up your Blue Mage.

Useful Items For Leveling

There are a few items you may want to have handy as you grind through your Blue Mage levels. First and foremost are experience-boosting accessories that can be obtained mainly through preordering the game's expansions, like Menphina's Earring, which provides a 30 percent increase to experience earned below level 80.

The Heat of Battle III Free Company action increases experience earned through battle by an additional 15 percent. If you're rested, you'll also gain another 50 percent bonus to experience gain.

Utilize these experience-boosting items and effects to lessen the grind as you level your Blue Mage.

Useful Spells For Leveling

As you level up your Blue Mage, there are a few key spells that you should watch out for, as these can make the leveling process much easier. We've listed some of the best leveling spells below, as well as how to get them.

Spell	Description	Earnable Level	How To Get It
1000 Needles	Deals a fixed 1,000 points of physical damage which is shared by all enemies around you.	24	Sabotender Bailaor in Flower Power Levequest — Sourthern Thanalan (X:18, Y:13) Sabotender Bailaor — Southern Thanalan (X:16, Y:15) Sabotender Desertor — Cutter's Cry
Choco Meteor	Deals unaspected damage to target and all enemies nearby it with a potency of 200 for the first enemy, and 50% for all remaining enemies. Potency increases to 300 when partied with your personal chocobo.	53	Courser Chocobo — The Dravanian Forelands (X:37, Y:23)
The Ram's Voice	Deals ice damage to all nearby enemies with a potency of 220 for the first enemy, and 50% les for all remaining enemies. Additional Effect: Deep Freeze — prevents the target from taking any action Duration: 12 seconds	38	Chimera — Cutter's Cry
White Wind	Restores own HP and the HP of all nearby party members by an amount equal to your current HP.	1	Whalaqee White Wind Totem — Learn 10 Blue Mage Spells

Tips For Leveling Up

Because you will mainly be leveling up by killing enemies in the open world, always have your chocobo companion out with you. Your trusty chocobo will help you kill enemies, making the grind just a bit faster. Additionally, you should always try to fight enemies at least a level or two higher than you for the best experience gains, which your chocobo will help with.

Fighting enemies that are higher level than you can get dangerous, so set the nearby Aetheryte as your home point so you can quickly get back if you die.

Be sure to utilize chain bonuses to increase your experience gains. Killing enemies in succession will stack the chain bonus, making each kill worth more, as long as you can keep the chain up. That said, don't bother with FATEs, as the bonus experience granted to Blue Mages doesn't apply to enemies in FATEs, making them much slower and a waste of time for experience.

Blue Mage Rotations

Having an in-depth knowledge of rotations is important for most jobs, but for the Blue Mage, it's simply not as necessary. While Blue Mage can't be used in endgame content, there is content exclusive to Blue Mage that requires a deeper understanding of its spells.

Below, you can find a list of some of the stronger spells available to Blue Mage, as well as a brief description of their effects.

Spell	Effect
Tingle	Deals lightning damage to the target and all enemies nearby it with a potency of 100 for the first enemy, and 50 percent less for all remaining enemies.
Triple Trident	Delivers a threefold attack, each hit with a potency of 150.
Sonic Boom	Deals wind damage with a potency of 210.
Bristle	Increases the potency of the next spell cast by 50 percent.
Whistle	Increases the potency of the next physical damage spell cast by 80 percent.
Bad Breath	Blow noxious breath on all enemies in a cone before you, inflicting Slow +20 percent, Heavy +40 percent, Blind, and Paralysis.

Blood Drain	Deals unaspected damage with a potency of 50.
Peculiar Light	Increases magic damage taken by all nearby enemies by five percent.
Final Sting	Deals physical damage with a potency of 2,000 while incapacitating self.
Aetherial Mimicry	Mirror the aetheric properties of your target, granting yourself a beneficial effect corresponding with the target's role.
Song Of Torment	Deals unaspected damage with a potency of 50.
Sharpened Knife	Deals physical damage with a potency of 220.
Diamond Back	Reduces damage taken by 90 percent and nullifies most knockback and draw-in effects. Unable to move or take action for the duration of this effect.

Devour	Deals unaspected damage with a potency of 250.
Condensed Libra	Afflicts the target with Physical Attenuation, Astral Attenuation, or Umbral Attenuation.
Magic Hammer	Deals unaspected damage to target and all enemies nearby it with a potency of 250 for the first enemy, and 50 percent less for all remaining enemies.
Chelonian Gate	Summons a chelonian gate, reducing damage taken by 20 percent.
The Rose of Destruction	Deals unaspected damage with a potency of 400
Cold Fog	Grants Cold Fog to self.
Feather Rain	Deals wind damage with a potency of 220 to all enemies at a designated location.

Glass Dance	Deals ice damage to all enemies in a wide arc to your fore and flanks with a potency of 350 for the first enemy, and 50 percent less for all remaining enemies.
Pom Cure	Restores target's HP with a potency of 100. Potency increases to 500 when under the effects of Aetheric Mimicry: Healer.
Shock Strike	Deals lightning damage to target and all enemies nearby it with a potency of 400 for the first enemy, and 50 percent less for all remaining enemies.
Supranakha	Deals earth damage to all enemies in a cone before you with a potency of 200 for the first enemy, and 50 percent less for all remaining enemies.
Angel Whisper	Resurrects target to a weakened state.
Stotram	Deals unaspected damage with a potency of 140 to all nearby enemies.
Phantom Flurry	Deals unaspected damage over time with a potency of 200 to all enemies in a cone before you.
Nightbloom	Deals unaspected damage to all nearby enemies with a potency of 400 for the first enemy, and 50 percent less for all remaining enemies.
J Kick	Delivers a jumping physical attack to target and all enemies nearby it with a potency of 300 for the first enemy, and 50 percent less for all remaining enemies.
Gobskin	Creates a barrier around self and all nearby party members that absorbs damage equivalent to a heal of 100 potency.
Matra Magic	Deals an unaspected eightfold attack, each hit with a potency of 50. Potency is increased to 100 when you are under the effect of Aetheric Mimicry: DPS.
Dragon Force	Reduces damage taken by 15%. Increases damage reduction to 40% when you are under the effect of Aetheric Mimicry: Tank.

Blue Mage Damage Rotation

With the recommended spells out of the way, here's a simple damage rotation for the Blue Mage. There aren't separate rotations for single target and area cleave, as most Blue Mage spells have an area of effect component built in.

Start countdown > at ten seconds, Precast Whistle > at two seconds, Precast Tingle > cast Moon Flute (J Kick) > cast Rose of Destruction (Night Bloom) > cast Triple Trident (Shock Strike) > cast Bristle (Swift Cast + Glass Dance) > cast Supranakha (Matra Magic + Eruption) > cast Phantom Flurry.
Use an HQ Tincture of Intelligence (any grade is fine) five seconds before pulling.
Abilities in brackets are instant cast or off-global cooldown abilities, or fit into the global cooldown window.

Blue Mage Gear And Materia

After you acquire the Aetheric Mimicry spell, you can really play any role as the Blue Mage. Thanks to the massive variety of spells available, you can equip spells that help you specialize in one of the three roles: tank, healer, or magic DPS.

Whichever role you choose to play, you'll still be equipping casting gear, which will boost your Intelligence, Vitality, Determination, and Critical Hit. If you're looking to max out your stats through Materia, we recommend slotting in Critical Hit and Determination Materia for the best damage boosts.

Blue Mage Level 80 Best In Slot Gear — DPS

Slot	Gear	Materia
Weapon	Blue-eyes	Savage Aim Materia VIII (Critical Hit +24) Savage Aim Materia VIII (Critical Hit +24)
Head	Edenmorn Hat of Casting	Quicktongue Materia VIII (Spell Speed +24) Quicktongue Materia VIII (Spell Speed +24)
Body	Augmented Cryptlurker's Robe of Casting	Quicktongue Materia VIII (Spell Speed +24) Quicktongue Materia VIII (Spell Speed +24)
Hands	Phantasmal Gloves	Savage Aim Materia VIII (Critical Hit +24) Savage Might Materia VIII (Determination +24)
Legs	Phantasmal Slacks	Quicktongue Materia VIII (Spell Speed +24) Quicktongue Materia VIII (Spell Speed +24)
Feet	Phantasmal Shoes	Savage Aim Materia VIII (Critical Hit +24) Savage Might Materia VIII (Determination +24)
Earrings	Augmented Cryptlurker's Earring of Casting	Quicktongue Materia VIII (Spell Speed +24) Savage Aim Materia VIII (Critical Hit +24)
Necklace	Augmented Cryptlurker's Choker of Casting	Savage Aim Materia VIII (Critical Hit +24) Savage Aim Materia VIII (Critical Hit +24)
Bracelets	Augmented Cryptlurker's Bracelet of Casting	Quicktongue Materia VIII (Spell Speed +24) Savage Aim Materia VIII (Critical Hit +24)
Ring 1	Edenmorn Ring of Casting	Savage Aim Materia VIII (Critical Hit +24) Savage Aim Materia VIII (Critical Hit +24)
Ring 2	Augmented Cryptlurker's Ring of Casting	Quicktongue Materia VIII (Spell Speed +24) Quicktongue Materia VIII (Spell Speed +24)