Quote Originally Posted by Yasuhiro View Post
Beats me, senpai.
It should be pretty clear from context, but what I meant to say was, "Who said anything about me WANTING this?" Still, it's a lot easier to try to make a weak attempt to undermine an argument by searching past posts for self-contradiction than it is by providing any sort of meaningful counterpoints of your own, isn't it?

Quote Originally Posted by Duelle View Post
Secondly, most monster skills deal only damage and few are those that have anything that would work for BLU without any changes.
This was a concern for me when I first started the game. Fresh out of the gates of Gridania, it took me a while to realize monsters were even USING special skills, and I only figured it out when I saw that some of the flying text damage numbers had text by them. I was thinking about BLU, even back then, and despaired that it would never work in this game simply because the mobs all had boring, damage-only attacks that barely looked any different from their standard attack animations.

Now, though, I feel that there are plenty of monster skills flashy enough that they'd go well in a BLU's arsenal. The aoe Stun used by boar mobs is a good example. Bad Breath, a BLU classic, could still work, though I'd guess it'd wind up being useless in anything outside of faceroll easy content (much like ACN's Tri-Bind).

As for mob types that only exist in advanced dungeons, bear in mind that BLU, if added, would be added in a new expansion with new areas - and Yoshi P has already stated that accessing these areas would NOT require full completion of ARR and Heavensward. There may be new low-level areas, in which BLUs could fight weaker versions of those mobs specifically to learn those skills. Even if there are no new low-level areas, there's nothing stopping SE from adding such mobs to existing low-level areas, specifically to help BLUs along. While I still doubt SE will make any kind of special learning system (and certainly not an RNG-fest like FFXI had), it's a mistake to assume that just because some skills are only present in high-level areas now, that that will always be the case!