Quote Originally Posted by Lithera View Post
The amount of work needed to make a BLU in XI useful in the endgame content is insane when you consider you can grind a MNK to 99, get some fairly easy to get gear and be the GOTO DPS for endgame..
And still i took all that work because i loved the job, and i was always welcome in endgame.

This is more for those who see it hard to be implemented because of the class exclusion,you can say it's useless for your static or for certain battles, you can say it is hard to lvl and or gear, but those who like it will play it, not everyone in the game is a hardcore raider, as i said Hardcore raiders are a minority, they can exclude whatever they want, but the casual crowd will play their way, you can't always chose what to use when you're not a hardcore raider or part of a big FC, this is what most people in the forums fail to understand.

I would like to add something more, as a player who likes and plays hybrid roles, an hybrid is a class made to perform well in a variety of situations, like healing for a short period while the whm raises the fallen scholar, or taking an add which is out of control, of course this can make a battle easyer, but it will also be slower, because a good mnk or a drg could apport higher DPS to make the battle shorter, for me this is not a "not needed" or "must have" just different strategies, this is what the real balance should do, of course, when a battle is fully scripted this is not possible, but SE is slowly changing the system, and hybrid roles could have a place soon, and don't forget a lot of ppl is asking for this, or it would never made it to a LL.