Quote Originally Posted by Yugl View Post
Diaga is utilized even at 99 (ex: Odin v2 adds, gather mobs for magian trials, or generic gathering of mobs), so how you manage to classify diaga as a "purposeless" spell is questionable.
If you go back to when I first mentioned these spells, it was that until content was added (such as NMs who can put 6+ shadows up) or Magian trials, Diaga and Poisonga had no purpose. Being given a purpose now does not mean that they were always useful.

The argument I was countering was that BLU spells never had a purpose and are therefore a waste of data space. Protect/Shell 1-3 are a waste of data space because they no longer have a purpose; just like tier 1 nukes, and diaga, and poisonga, etc. Having magically stumbled upon a use in 2010 doesn't mean they magically became useful from 2002-2010.

You can't use the 2002-2012 argument of "well spells used to be useful but now they suck" (pro-fix) without also accepting the fact that some spells used to have no use and now they do (my position). You can't ignore the mechanics of the game as a whole while addressing that the test server doesn't match the live server. They aren't supposed to.

The argument here is not to fix BLU for balance; the issue is BLUs wanting to be more powerful and the entirety of the posts address areas where BLUs "may" fall short, while ignoring areas were BLU have a clear advantage over other jobs.