Did the devs explicitly mention that BLU can't raid?

[Nariel]

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They didn't made a years of developement to release BLU as what it is to just rework it afterward, especially when they insisted that much on how it work so differently than other job.

Xpc do have other job to sell + a new race.

They need a content to push people to play until xpac release and lets be honest Eureka don't do that very well.

You really have to ear that BLU don't work like any other job and have his own meaning outside of teamplay to understand "Limited job" is just a side feature barely releated to the main dish that are the other not limited job and instances.

They could have made it work like every other job without any trouble, but they'll loose the blue mage vibe they want him to have in the process. They created a whole new feature for him (and maybe other job in the future) called Limited job for him to express the whole blue mage potential they wanted him to have. Like it or leave it. I'm leaving it.

[Saefinn]

They didn't made a years of developement to release BLU as what it is to just rework it afterward, especially when they insisted that much on how it work so differently than other job.

I get this would make them incredibly reluctant to. But if Blue Mage is so poorly received in its existing state, they may choose to, otherwise, that year's work will have been wasted regardless, in which case there would be an incentive to salvage it. But at the same time, there has been waste in Diadem and Eurka, which had potential but were poorly received and just need reworking in the right way to gain people's interest, they tried it with Diadem and still didn't get it right and I do not yet know if Eureka improved in later versions as I could not put myself through more endless FATE trains.

But I am in mixed minds about Blue Mage because I love what they've come up with as the job, but I just hope they don't mess it up. I can live with not having duty finder access, but my biggest concern with it is that it becomes side content, which SE has a poor track record for, see: Diadem & Eureka. If they can make it worthwhile, fantastic. But they've not been explicit on what group content will be available to a Blue Mage, whilst I expect on content stuff is unlikely, but I think I might not mind so much if Blue Mage ended up a patch behind, where the last patch content is still relevent, but not the focus.