Blue Mage might actually be a good thing.

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Originally Posted by silverdragontyr

Blu is exactly why other jobs don't have CC options or instant death. It makes some content trivial. It also makes those job far more desired than others. Nin can now instant KO any single lesser enemy on a 90 second cooldown. Why bring a Drg when you can bring 4-5 Nin that do effectively 10x the DPS when you consider they eliminate enemies other job have to damage down?

I enjoy Blu a lot. I think they should be allowed in roulette for old content like alliance raid and main story; but I understand why they're not at 80 or allowed in certain content.

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I mean, there’s a lot missing from those other jobs in the first place, ergo many people have voiced concerns not only over homogenization, but also the odd skill gaps in earlier levels due to pruning between xpacs. BLU only makes things seem trivial because it’s using the max armor level set to clear an entire expansions worth of content. Idk why you would presume NIN would be the only one getting new toys. There should be nothing wrong with Black Mage having “Death”, or Samurai having “Zantetsuken”, or Summoner getting a Summon Odin. Hell Ninja could even get a Mijin Gakure on par with Self-Destruct if they would finally give Healers a Re-Raise. In addition, BLU makes things trivial because instead of gating spell slots by level, they decided to let BLU go wild with having all spell slots available from level 1, meaning you don’t lose spells like other jobs do when you sync.

Second of all, the only real trivializing CC is Freeze/Petrify, which after playing a lot of tank BLU, I wish they would alter that type of CC to severely reduce damage to enemies while they are effected by it. Reason being is that I cannot stand when I’m playing tank BLU and DPS freeze my pull like as if it’s the optimal way to damage. People wouldn’t use it so haphazardly if there was a drawback to it.

I don’t generally have a problem with any job being able to trivialize trash- it’s called trash for a reason. The strategy of AoEing down mobs by pulling 2-3 camps is already trivial in the first place. On the other side of that, I do have a problem with trivializing bosses- even in the BLU only content which is an easy and obvious fix of giving bosses immunity.

The worse thing that could go wrong with having BLU in duty finder is that people don’t set up their spells optimally- which I see all the time running with other BLU- and while it’s annoying I usually take the time out to set them straight or help them farm spells. But on the other side of that, if BLU *was* allowed in duty finder, then they’d be much more likely to learn their spells at a fast and consistent rate, while naturally learning the job and the limits of every ability.