Quote Originally Posted by Mibgestalt View Post
I can't agree with this argument. You could have said the same of Red Mage. You could have said the same of Bard if you wanted to stick to what Bard has been in every other iteration. Literally every job has had major sweeping changes to its core identity and kit to be able to fit into FFXIV. By this logic, FFXIV should never have another full class, because there's no way they could be true enough to their identity in other games while being added effectively to FFXIV. Seriously, FFXIV is the game. That is the core that design is based around. The jobs SHOULD be designed to fit into it and its core gameplay and content, even at the expense of the job's identity, as has been done with every job before it.
Hey don't get me wrong. I would have preferred that they FF14ed BLU into a usable job that fit the existing Job system. The iteration of BLU they are offering me really doesn't interest me. What I am saying is that what we got cant fit into the existing system as it is without causing a lot of potential problems. There has to be a trade off somewhere. The problem isn't just some spells are overpowered.

SE chose to be true to the traditional model of BLU and thus had to restrict it from negatively impacting the existing system. Personally I think it was the wrong call. However really the main thing is that we can have it both ways.