Blue mage at patch 4.5

[Viridiana_Sovari]

This is a waste of development time pure and simple. They made more compromises with SMN, BRD, and RDM than they would have had to with BLU.

They literally could have implemented it the same way, tweaked how abilities worked for balance and to have some sort of rotation, and the abilities make it if in a specific role. Make it so that depending on your level you have to have a certain number of skills slotted to queue for content.

Would it have been harder to balance...sure. But it would have also been the first job with some actual depth in the game doing it that way. Instead we get a half measure that will be nothing but disappointment.

The saddest thing is that since this content is coming out in 4.5 people will be really bored for 6 months and play the content... which will cause them to see it as a success and replicate it for another job the community wants just to disappoint all over again.

[Balipu]

This is a waste of development time pure and simple.

Have you played it? Don't think so. Personally I will wait till I actually try it before making a judgement. Also 4.5 will bring the mistery Gold Saucer attraction and a new incentive to farm doge mounts. So if you aren't having fun with broken pimp, you can do other stuff.

[Arkdra]

This is a waste of development time pure and simple. .

I guarantee you that exponentially more people will do this than ultimates. Even if you expand the concept of doing ultimates to include the couple thousand people that watch ultimate progression on twitch.

[Fyce]

They made more compromises with SMN, BRD, and RDM than they would have had to with BLU.

Could they have made a BLU fit into the mainstream content and current job mould by removing some of its iconic aspects that are unfit for regular party play? Yes.
Did they want to do it? No.

It's fine to break the mould from time to time and make new things.