SE, the concept of "Limited Jobs" is a really bad idea, turn back now

[Fyce]

While he worded it slightly wrong, He isn't that far off. Imagine Yoshida came up to you and said simply "We're adding Blue Mage into the game" and nothing else. Would you expect to see a job in the sense of the others we've gotten so far? Eg 10-24 abilties and a rotation to use them in. I find it likely that a lot of people would since that's how every job until now has been handled regardless of FF11's version of BLU and it's "customisation"

It's not "slightly wrong", it's using a false generality to give their opinions more credit than they actually have. By saying "everyone", they included people who actually never shared that view. It's disgustingly dishonest and disrespectful not to consider other people's opinion and trying to stomp their with yours using false and baseless claims.

Anyway.

Why would I need to imagine Yoshida saying something like that when he actually said the exact way they would do BLU if they were to implement it, and that it correspond perfectly to what they presented during the FanFest? Weird job not fit for party play that'd need heavy tweeking. That's what we got, because that's what a Blue Mage is about: having to learn an arsenal of gimmicky and situational skills from enemies to use in battle.
Blue Mage, and the toolkit given by Blue Magic in general, was never fitted to be in FFXIV. Whoever thought that a toolkit heavily based on status effects, gimmiks, enemy level, and exploiting elemental weaknesses was something that could easily fit in XIV is a fool. Edit: or very naive/ignorant.

Just look at what SMN became. A lot of people still criticize it today for not actually being a "true summoner" but a glorified pet job, which doesn't even handle pets very well. Do people really think that BLU would turn any better? Really? Or are they just lying to themselves?