People who are mad about the "limited job" didn't actually want Blue Mage.

[Alien_Gamer]

Okay, but what did they do it instead of?

This is the most useless question ever. We got BLU instead of any of the dozens of other jobs they initially started discussing years ago. We got BLU instead of all the hundreds of other ideas they had about things to include that we never heard about. We got BLU instead of so many other things that could have been and will never know about that its pointless to even bother with. But you know, pick your favorite thing that you feel got shafted and go with that instead.

I see no placation here, I see Yoshi giving us a well developed job thats true to its historic identity and giving the players many things they've been asking for since 2.0.
-Players wanted a reason to go back into the open world, now you have it.
-Players wanted something different from what we've had for the last 4 years, now you have it.
-Players wanted a unique job that didn't feel like what we already have, now you have it.
-Players wanted new content thats not copy pasta from previous stuff, we got Masked Carnival.
-Players posted fears that BLU would be a watered down caster with very little identity, they made it so its not.
-Players posted fears that BLU would be OP and break group content with monster abilities, they agreed and took steps to stop that. They even let premades bypass that restriction for those that really want to do group content with their friends.

Players literally got everything they wanted with BLU and they're still complaining about it.

This is not a minigame. This is a new job with new job mechanics. If this is a minigame for you then you might as well call all of the job specific mechanics minigames. If you want other jobs to have such unique identity, request it on the forums and push for it but nowhere did Yoshi ever imply that other classes don't have identity or other new classes won't have identity.

[Skyskip]

Literally none of the fluff matters if the job isn't playable like the rest. It just means they've wasted a tremendous amount of time and effort that would have been better served making an actual job that people could play normally.

[Valdegarde]

giving us a well developed job

It fails to meet basic requirements of any other job in the game. It is not a job.

[Alien_Gamer]

Except it does meet the basic requirements. Its a DPS class, it has skills to kill mobs and access to the magic ranged dps role skills. It can do solo duties, complete quests and participate in group content with a premade group. Its only restriction is no matchmaking duties.

How is this not meeting the basic requirements?

[Skyskip]

By not being capable of what literally every other job in the game is capable of doing.

[Pheryx]

By not being capable of what literally every other job in the game is capable of doing.

Ah yeah, by making it fit the mold and have to do rotaions like other jobs ad infinitum. That's not boring at all /s

[Skyskip]

Ah yeah, by making it fit the mold and have to do rotaions like other jobs ad infinitum. That's not boring at all /s

If you think that's boring then why are you playing this game? You clearly must not enjoy it.

[Alien_Gamer]

BLU can go into any dungeon its high enough level for just like any other class, its not locked out of anything. Roulettes are there for bonus xp and to fill parties and not content in and of themselves. BLU gets bonus xp from open world content to make up for the lost roulette xp and can enter dungeons with a premade group. It can do what other DPS jobs are doing.

[Pheryx]

If you think that's boring then why are you playing this game? You clearly must not enjoy it.

It's boring cause this treadmill has been going on for 5 damn years. I have had plenty of fun with the game those 5 years to. But why would you wan't more of the same when people have wanted things to start changing and this can be a step in the right direction for it.

[Valdegarde]

If you think that's boring then why are you playing this game? You clearly must not enjoy it.

I think that's another aspect that has me really questioning the people defending this decision. I still like playing FFXIV, I still like fighting primals, raids, and doing alliance raids and playing as many classes as I can to learn how they can be effective, challenging myself and accomplishing things with others.
People who are saying Blue Mage had to be this new thing because the base game is so stale and awful, is this really going to save the game for you?
I guess I'm highly upset that Blue Mage as a proper job has been twisted to placate people who...dislike this game anyway, I suppose.