Quote Originally Posted by BubblyBoar View Post
I absolutely can. We've been accepting watered down versions of classes since the start of 2.0 with SMN and even with RDM. And yet, people still love and play those classes often. BLU would have been the same if they bothered to try.
BLU is a bit different, and always has been. Collecting abilities has been a major side activity in games in a way that no other job has had, which is exactly what XIV has emulated. And by the sounds of it, they did try to put BLU into the traditional job formula and it didn't work as a BLU (which is understandable, it has no identifiable theme other than collecting enemy abilities), so the main gameplay that they took is the side activity that makes up the identity of BLU