BLU Balance

[Fae]

SCH soloing Shiva on Very Difficult.
RDM soloing Garuda on very Difficult.
SCH soloing Tenzen on Very Difficult.
SCH soloing Ark Angel Elvaan on Very Difficult.
SCH soloing Ark Angel Tarutaru on Very Difficult.
BST soloing Garuda on Very Difficult.
SCH soloing Sinister Reign.

And that was found in a very quick Youtube search, there are plenty more examples of jobs other than BLU soloing some of the more challenging content in FFXI.




PLD easily soloing merits/100 JP/hour.




You just proved my point.

These discussions, in addition to being frequent here and elsewhere, too often paint BLU as being god-like, so is it any wonder a greater number of players are playing the job? It's a jack of all trades and always has been. Yes, it's capable of doing just about anything, but your claims are ridiculous. BLU is by no means an ideal tank for Reisenjima T4s.

How much time have you invested in the job?

You clearly missed that the sentences parts you were quoting were a conjunction, combined by the word and, rather than or (or chose to, most likley). My own posts have mentioned other jobs can solo VD avatar, but BLU does it much quicker. So I have to assume that most of your reply is ignoring most of what I said because you don't want it to be true because you're actively trying to change what I say rather than making points on what I did say (such as saying BLU is ideal tank, which isn't something I said but since you brought it up, ya having one more party slot because BLU can effectively tank them is pretty ideal).

Lets paint a very accurate picture. The cases/boxes/parcels from BCNMs that always drop 2 in personal and 2 in the treasure pool on VD battlefields average as near as I can tell, as 15.75 per container. Even if I am off with that to a degree, it will hold true that BLU gets more:

BLU has great cleave, so remerit time is ~10 mins
BLU can solo VD avatar in sub 3 mins, we'll list it as 3mins
Rezone time is same for everyone but we'll say 1.5 mins.
You can do 7 runs.

Merit time= 10 mins
Fight time= 21 mins
Rezone time= 10.5 mins

From this a solo player gets 4*15.75 which sell for about 10k each, 7 times. So about 4.4mil in about 41.5 mins.

Compare this to BST
BST has great cleave, so remerit time is ~10 mins
BST can solo VD avatar but it's not consistent and takes 10 mins per fight
Rezone time = 10.5 mins

So BST would do the same BLU can do in 90.5 mins, over double the time, and thats assuming they win every time and have ways to reset 1 hour each time so that is REALLY optimistic.

Lets convert this to gil an hour. BLU= 6.3 mil an hour, BST=2.93 mil an hour

Lets try a typical DD:
Merit time=25-35 mins killing things one by one
Can't Solo VD avatar so has to to D, which singles drop from
Rezone time=10.5 mins

Worse in every way and I can't even really assign a number to it, other than know it's much worse off than BST.

Sure there are other ways to make gil, but as I've pointed out, they also push out other jobs in party setups due to their buffs, and are growing in popularity so rapidly because of reasons like these.

Lets say you group up for those same bcnms, you will get a 1 in 6 chance to get those same coffers, have similar clear and cleave times to BLU solo (you can get the fights down to about 1.5 mins with a group, but if your group doesn't have a cleave job BLU STILL pulls ahead of an endgame party, solo and I've had groups that due to lack of skillchain coordination, they still have longer than 4 min clear times). So you're looking at, on average, clearing about the same speed as blu but getting almost half the gil for it. This isn't even including other money drops in the pool, that the solo player will get all of.

BLU has more power, which leads to more power. Now just because you play BLU, everything is easier on you. You have lots of gil, you can do whatever you want all on one job, and you can even DD the hardest mobs in the game without a real tank. But the problem is CLEARLY that people just too dumb and bad to play other jobs and just follow the leader, even though as you've shown there's other examples on other jobs out there of great players for their job... and they still do it worse than BLU does. Gee I wonder why.

BLU is a problem solo, BLU is a problem in group setups and shutting out other jobs from being invited, BLU is a problem in that it is so played and imbalances other choices, BLU is a problem in that it can do so much so WELL on one job, jack of trades or hybrid shouldn't mean just better at the game in nearly every way, that's called overpowered. Think about the fact that t4 reisenjima, hate is being held by BLU simply from their damage, with their normal loadout tanking it. It's this same power that allows it to be so far ahead in so much content and make the game much easier on anyone that chooses to play it and that is broken. You say we need to change the conversation. You know what would do that very quickly? A really big nerf to blu. At the same time, it'd address the very obvious imblanced state BLU as it currently stands and once again widen job choices and make for a more healthy ffxi.