To Developers: Accession

[Greatguardian]

Holy crap, I forgot AF3+2 pants. That would vastly change the HP:MP ratios for all WHM spells, meaning BLU doesn't even come close to touching them. What the hell, Saevel?

I think the issue that people are forgetting with BLU, though, is the fact that they can only set so many spells at one time and there is a delay after any sort of changes wherein the BLU can't cast anything at all. People seem to underestimate the value of this time. Arts are the single biggest reason that SCH is such a shitty mage, and even those are more lenient than BLU spell setting. BLU loses a ton of versatility by having to set their spells for a given role and then be stuck in them, unable to change their role instantly on-the-fly if they need to.

As a backup healer, they have decent spells, but if they're set as a backup healer then they are only a backup healer unless they want to be useless for a full minute while resetting spells. They can't handle backup healing while doing crowd control, enfeebling, and contributing worthwhile nuke damage. That doesn't happen. Who can do that? Red Mage.

[Swords]

Holy crap, I forgot AF3+2 pants. That would vastly change the HP:MP ratios for all WHM spells, meaning BLU doesn't even come close to touching them. What the hell, Saevel?

Really though, is this so much about WHM. Thought the whole point he brought up BLU to begin with was to point out it has better capability than either RDM or SCH at healing and enhancing even if BLU's role would be more or less restricted to it (which at the moment RDM pretty much is).

[saevel]

Really though, is this so much about WHM. Thought the whole point he brought up BLU to begin with was to point out it has better capability than either RDM or SCH at healing and enhancing even if BLU's role would be more or less restricted to it (which at the moment RDM pretty much is).

Yeah kinda finding it funny that people arguing WHM vs BLU when I clearly said BLU is the second best healer in the game by a very large margin. A BLU can actually main heal a party, no sh!t if they dress in mage gear and use mage spells / JT's then they can actually heal just fine. Having three separate mid to high powered cures is the reason, SCH, RDM and every other job in the game (/WHM) has to wait for Cure IV's timer, BLU on the other hand will be spamming fruit / embrace and using Cure IV as a backup for when the first two timers are down. Embrace for 700+ and Fruit for 600+ at 18% potency is ridiculous, especially when you consider it's cost. WHM is obviously the best, but BLU crush's RDM, SCH, SMN and DNC for healing.

[Greatguardian]

Yeah kinda finding it funny that people arguing WHM vs BLU when I clearly said BLU is the second best healer in the game by a very large margin. A BLU can actually main heal a party, no sh!t if they dress in mage gear and use mage spells / JT's then they can actually heal just fine. Having three separate mid to high powered cures is the reason, SCH, RDM and every other job in the game (/WHM) has to wait for Cure IV's timer, BLU on the other hand will be spamming fruit / embrace and using Cure IV as a backup for when the first two timers are down. Embrace for 700+ and Fruit for 600+ at 18% potency is ridiculous, especially when you consider it's cost. WHM is obviously the best, but BLU crush's RDM, SCH, SMN and DNC for healing.

You're the one who compared it to WHM in the first place, broski. BLU doesn't even come close to WHM in terms of efficiency (though you claimed otherwise, quite loudly), and you were using terribad gear potency comparisons even in the scope of BLU vs RDM. No RDM worth half a shit is sitting on a measly 18% Cure Potency.

Good job completely avoiding all of the actual math proving you wrong, though, and choosing instead to make swipes at people in the second person.