BLU for Duty Finder and Raids! Show your support!

[Baka_Neko1]

what i don't get is why can't they just have a tank/healer/dps set of slots where certain abilities are only able to be placed into suitable roles and they can slot the skills/rotation they want to do? it would solve all these issues... also all raid bosses would be immune to death. duh.

[Nestama]

BLU doesn't work for party content, don't pretend that it does. What we would get is this, or a watered-down imitation of BLU, which would generate backlash regardless. This is BLU exactly as BLU should be, and putting it in a party scenario wouldn't work because it can't be balanced against other jobs. This is how the backlash looks:

Community: "We are bored of the predictable formula, give us something we have never seen before"

Devs: "Here is a brand new concept for how jobs are played, and here is BLU exactly as it is in other games"

Community: "Nooo, we never asked for that"

Then make it so that BLU can learn/set skills that allow them to be a tank, healer or DPS and only allow them to party with other BLU's in Extreme Trials/Raids.

[Ceol_Wolfe]

They don't even need to change the system they presented, they simply need to create a parallel one, sort of like PVP. You're in PVP, boom, you have all these other actions and things you can add. You're a BLU going into DF? Congratulations, your skills are now this predetermined set which you've gained through level up and job quests and can therefore be balanced.
The BLU solo experience actually sounds fascinating and like it'd make for good time filler in the luls between patches. But I'm a lot less motivated if I can't even play it in regular content. More than anything, it's more of the same worriesome state of mind they have where they think they know better than us what we want. On one hand I appreciate being this loyal to the job, on the other hand, I find it misplaced and in bad taste.

This is exactly my thinking. I sincerely hope SE makes BLU a real Job, and not just a minigame, in the future. My dream is to join my static against current raid content as a balanced BLU.

[AlphaSonic]

Then make it so that BLU can learn/set skills that allow them to be a tank, healer or DPS and only allow them to party with other BLU's in Extreme Trials/Raids.

Can you imagine if Blue Mage had been able to learn different skills that allowed him to perform Tank, Healer or DPS roles. Put them a limit on how many skills can the class use at the same time in combat and balanced it around the other classes. Our first class that can perform the 3 roles (but with the actions restriced for balance reasons) it seems that was too much effort. But making a whole new special class catered to single player in a MMORPG is less effort.

[Alsi270]

It should not be forgotten that BLU has the caster role actions (among others Break and Drain).

[Minsue]

They already stated once a high enough lvl you can join a pre-formed party so you can do raids you can do dungeons you just can't pug that and pvp/deep dungeon so you won't miss out on the dungeons or raids just join groups the old fashioned way for that matter use party finder easy peezy

[Saradain]

Well, there goes dreams about maining BLU...Starts to feel like Diablo Immortal. Here's hoping another DPS Job is introduced in the expansion instead.

[Fineti]

They only need to make a mandatory Stone, Sky, Sea style dummy that must be beaten before Duty Finder unlocks. If a DPS player can reach the proper DPS for their level, there is no reason to lock them out of matchmaking. There will already be a solo challenge arena specifically for the job, so just build it into that.

[Shadowshinra]

So.. we gotta find 23 other people willing to wait around to try and do one of the 24 man duties? I'm sure that will be fun! There was so many ways to implement BLU while still keeping true to it's identity, It definitely screams that they added this version to be filler and to have people around in old zones, I wouldn't be surprised if the 80 cap wasn't removed until the END of 5.X at this rate.

[Minsue]

I feel like people don't understand what duty finder is.