Late to the BLU Party

[Musashidon]

Can you link me where he said that was how he specifically wanted BLU implemented? I can only recall him saying BLU would be very difficult to do.

i will say it's not quite i want it this way, but he was concerned with how it was to be implemented at all. course i guess that can be said with all jobs.

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/threads/191993

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Q: I love the blue mage job that appears in the FINAL FANTASY series. Will the blue mage job ever be implemented in FFXIV?
A: I think that blue mage is an interesting job because you can learn spells from enemies, but honestly I don't think that it really fits MMORPG party settings. If anything, I think it would work solo and it would be really fun to implement it as a job where you go around and learn abilities from every monster, so I'd definitely like to try and do this, but I'm concerned when it comes to playing in a party players would put up barriers if you haven't learned certain abilities. Additionally, in the event you are able to use abilities forever once you learn them, the difficulty of learning abilities would be high, and we wouldn't be able to balance the system so it wouldn't revolve around procuring your abilities instead of equipment. This wouldn't be practical enough to fit in an MMORPG party setting and conversely if you are swapping in only certain abilities you've learned, the true image of a blue mage would diminish, so this is something that I am concerned with.

Something in Heavensward or Stormblood, or Shadowbringers with that on the horizon. Dungeons, maps, HoH, hunts, trials, raids, alliance raids, PvP, I have to make the choice. Do I stay on blue mage, or do I play with my friends? Why am I being forced to make that decision when it could have been built to be included from the start?

hunts you will always be able to do and even maps (now the portals for the rng part i would say no to at first till you get lvl 60/70 however long that is any speculation aside) (also i do get that being lvl 50 in a 60/70 area means you are weak and pretty useless even with op skills)

but i will say why is learning all your skills more important or just playing on blu more important than just going out and doing the content on another job? is it pride? stubborness? i agree with your point as blu could have started with a lvl 70 cap and just been unable to enter ex primals ultimate content and raids til shadowbringers to at least let you do everything you wanted also not letting blu into HOH or POTD seems odd as it would be blu true play ground.

with a higher lvl starting cap you could have at least had more content to enter and do with your friends and less welp i am out of luck have to change jobs.