BLU Balance

[OmnysValefor]

1) It has huge aoe nukes, even better than dedicated nuking jobs like BLM. One reason BST was nerfed was it could farm experience points and job points so well, solo. Well, BLU can do this and much more.

Noone cares how fast BST could farm experience point (btw, can still do it just as fast). BST got nerfed because they could stand at max range and do maximum damage with, in a wide array of circumstances, maybe the most potent 1hr in the game. The pet had 3x the hp of players and the master was wearing pet -dt gear most of the time.

2) It has huge soloing potential. I feel one reason BST was nerfed was it could do solo VD battlefields. They can clear those with lots of temps, 1 hours, and high degrees of skill and still take over 10 minutes. BLU is soloing some VD fights in much less time.

I don't understand the point of soloing these fights, you're still taking more time than with other players, no matter how good you are. Even if the other players are your mules, you're silly if you're not using them.

I don't solo much on BLU, but then I don't solo much on anything. I play MMOs to play with people.

The BLUs who I know of that do solo respectable things (on other servers) are very very very geared. They spend millions with Oseem looking for a slightly better augment than a very good one that they have.

3) It can self haste cap, and needs less buffs. The director in the reddit AMA said they didn't want any job to be able to self haste cap as a DD as it is a group game, yet BLU can.

I can agree with this, though MG and entrusted indi-haste (entrusted spells don't gain from geomancy enhancing gear) or one march from a bard. If you don't have a SMN or RDM (which isn't common in a lot of groups. Neither is bard.).

4) It is extremely survivable while also doing great DPS, there is very little tradeoff.

Please list the tradeoffs. I know what they are but I'd love for you to. A lot of what people talk about BLU being capable of are in separate fights "This BLU topped DPS" (your other DPS players are probably far lesser geared or the mob has a weakness to swords) "This BLU killed the adds", "This BLU has higher accuracy than anyone else."

Edit: Accuracy issue, which used to be a notable advantage for BLU is largely irrelevant since the AGI nerfs. My PLD in tanking gear has pretty good acc against most things when I use acc food. I used to say BLU's biggest advantage was being able to hit the boss while survivable enough to stand near the boss but that survivability--either due to gear or spells, does cost dps. In the case of spells, it also costs dps while recasting the spell.

One of blu's weaknesses if that the buff-magics really don't last very long. No complaints though.