I don't usually post here, but I logged in just for this. This Limited Job thing is a horrible idea. Making a job that can't do ANY current content and most of the older expansion content is idiotic. This concept of a "Limited Job" should have been shot down during the planning phase.

And the 10-minute volley of excuses that boiled down to "It's too hard to balance" was a load of crap. Blue Mages are known for a handful of abilities, and the team could have implemented them in a way so as to not to be unbalanced. It wouldn't be an exact copy of the abilities in previous titles, but few abilities are. Hell, in other offline FF installments, White Mages can't throw stones, Thunder isn't a DoT, and Red Mages can't hurl magical energy swords, but here we are!

It's ridiculous that this excuse is used with Blue Mage of all jobs. The job that only has a few abilities in common between installments, with the rest of the spells being totally unique to the game. Frog Drop, Gatling Gun, Magic Breath, Stone Breath, etc. SE could have made quite a few entirely new abilities and still called them Blue Magic.

And don't even get me started about being "faithful to flavor." Blue Mages of the past have learned spells by being hit, yes (and not even in XIV apparently!). But Quistis learned new spells by using items dropped from monsters. Quina learned by eating monsters. Kimahri used an ability on monsters. And no Blue Mage, EVER, to my knowledge, had an RNG-based "chance" of learning an ability (I never played XI, so please excuse me if I'm incorrect there). It's such an obvious hook to increase re-sub and re-grind old content.

The excuses as to why they couldn't implement it are, truly, a crock of shite. And before anyone comes in with "the fans would have complained if..." nonsense....yes, yes some would have. Just like any other class. But they would have at least been happy with a full-fledged job and accepted (and, frankly, most have expected beforehand) some compromise to fit the FFXIV system. The salt would have been a few pinches compared to the entire mine's worth SE is now getting.