BLU can be a full job. Here's how:

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Originally Posted by Hasrat

Re: the first part of your post, as I said, not a debate I really care to tread, as there are clearly a plethora of ways of balancing and assuring and otherwise making BLU work in 50+ content.

But this here is an admittance that BLU would need to remain limited in what it's capable of running.

Locked to 50+? How do you make that work with roulettes? Is BLU still barred from entering PotD? Can't run most of squadron content? What about guildhests?

As I said, I'm sure there's no shortage of ways to make high level BLU work. I reckon that's why there's high level spells to be gotten at all, the fun of running that content with something new and capable of improvising to some degree.

But how can you say you're making it a "full job" if you're not taking everything into consideration, from Basic Training: Enemy Parties all the way up to Bahamut and beyond.

Idk, yo. The way I see it, unless there's a way to make it work completely, it's not worth the trouble, the hassle, the stress, the drama of making it partly work. And the way it is now, I struggle to see how you balance a job that doesn't lose any skills when it syncs down.

And I'd rather not be the one to ruin a new player's experience by facerolling early dungeons and making them feel like dead weight.

You make a good point. This might fall into my first point of "Some spells will either need to be forbidden from being set, or will need to have their effect altered." 1k Needles may need to be restricted from set #6, or turned into a 1,000 potency physical attack (dealing 50% less potency for each extra enemy hit, similar to how Holy works). Higanbana is 940 without buffs so it wouldn't totally be unheard of. Paired with the long cast time as well as the Aetherflow recast styled gameplay it wouldn't be especially overpowered, I don't think; if so, I'm sure there are ways to balance it accordingly. Perhaps make it a channeled attack like MCH's Flamethrower when set in list #6, dealing up to 1,000 total potency by the time the channel is finished. That'd be kind of neat to see, actually haha.

As for the amount of spells available, that could be handled by limiting the number of slots you can set spells into as you level up (which is also what FFXI did in a way) instead of by locking spell list #6 to level 50. With 24 slots you could unlock 1 slot every other level to get the full 24 available at level 45. With their unique calculation of damage based solely on INT, they could likely balance it to still deal a range of DPS in relation to other casters at 50.