BLU Balance

[Afania]

Of course blu can call trusts like every other job. The whole point of trusts is that they can make up for abilities and spells your own job lacks. People playing solo with trusts shouldn't even care about blu, especially since hey, you're solo, it's not like you have to compete against a blu for your trusts to invite you to a party.

Because I do have the suspicion that all this hate against blu really is about other melee jobs feeling inferior. They can try to justify themselves with "but...BALANCE!", but the game has never been balanced, and there have always been jobs that outperformed others. They can argue that MG is too strong, but it's not like no other jobs can cast haste II. They can complain that the PUG leader might pick a blu over their own melee job, but you can always just start a shout yourself.

Sure, you can pretend the balance/design issue doesn't exist by playing with ls/friends, make your own party, job change to BLU, deal with lack of haste, whatever.

But it's like an ugly looking person that breaks all the mirrors in his house so he doesn't have to see his own face, thus able to pretend he looks beautiful.

Or a Chocobo buries his head in the sand and ignoring what happens to the outside world.

Or pre-lockstyle era that players do .dat mods so they can pretend their gear combination visually looks appealing.

Asking people to play with ls/friends, make their own pt, job change to BLU doesn't change the fact that there's an issue with design, it only solves individual player's personal problems.

They can try to justify themselves with "but...BALANCE!", but the game has never been balanced, and there have always been jobs that outperformed others. They can argue that MG is too strong, but it's not like no other jobs can cast haste II. They can complain that the PUG leader might pick a blu over their own melee job, but you can always just start a shout yourself.

My question is why can't people express opinions about design adjustments?

Back in the past people asked for BST nerf, SAM nerf, THF rudra nerf, WAR MNK nerf, all the time.

In fact there's one very, very vocal BLU in FFXI community(not naming names) that always run around asking BST nerf, and went "SAM needs nerf ASAP" in SAM discussion when he thinks those jobs had advantage over other jobs.

And now that BLU has slight advantage over other jobs, this same BLU suddenly jump into every single BLU discussion and essentially attack anyone that asked for BLU job adjustment.

This is double standard. Back when people ask for BST, SAM, WAR, MNK, THF or whatever job to be nerfed, there weren't massive wave of anti nerf opinions like today. Unlike these days people uses all sorts of excuses, including "just play BLU" or "just play with people let you come other jobs" to justify their reasoning against adjustments.

I'll tell you why design issues, regardless of the jobs, needs to be adjusted. Because that's the whole point of game design. SE as a game dev, it's their job to work on adjustments to designs. If you play a fighting game and every player picked same char in tournament, or if you play a RTS game and every player picked same side, it's called bad games. MMORPG is the same.

Therefore us as a player, our job is to provide feedback when we notice issues in design, to help them create a better game.

Just because MMO can never be truly balanced, doesn't mean dev and playerbase shouldn't work toward this goal.

Therefore comments like "just play BLU!!!" or "just deal with the lack of haste!!!" or "just play with friends!!!" really shouldn't be in a design balance discussion as it doesn't solve any issue from game design pov, it only solve individual player issue of not getting pt invite.