Late to the BLU Party

[jon041065]

That's very limited information to have this much hate against it. Reading just that slide, "designed for solo play" and "not suited for parties" comes off to me as many abilities may be locked out of group play. Not suited for parties does not entail full exclusion. I know the class is locked to level 50 for now, which will be raised in the future. My guess to that is to adjust the job according to feedback and see how things scale from there (one thing I can tell you, FFXIV's scaling is not the best, but the other games I've played have none, so my perception is a bit skewed).

Just like I know there's some quote I've vaguely read/heard of Yoshida (maybe even someone else) talking about death possibly 1-shotting bosses (which may even be hyperbole - we don't know yet!). Without knowing the full context of the remark because of how very little information has been presented, this could mean a number of things (including, but not limited to: making sure abilities that are marked to not having access to in certain content cannot be made available through means like pomanders, squadron's ungarmax and scholar's ability to resummon their fairy while under dissipation; making sure checks to are in place that an under-abilitied BLU cannot be carried through content because they did not do enough things to unlock enough abilities to maintain a rotation; testing rotations for damage if they were ever planned to be allowed into current content).

Like I've been trying to say, we literally don't have enough information. It's fine to be cautious, but there's still a difference between caution and pessimism.

They said they didn't want to limit abilities after giving the lvl 5 Death example. That they considered limitations but decided that would be "less fun". The backlash is mostly an attempt at changing their minds.

Go listen to the part about blue mage from the live letter. It was uploaded to the FFXIV youtube channel yesterday. We are responding to what they said and had in the slides.

[JunseiKei]

Go listen to the part about blue mage from the live letter. It was uploaded to the FFXIV youtube channel yesterday. We are responding to what they said and had in the slides.

*Looks at 2:07:06 time for the thing. Says it's in the latter part 12:00 in.*

<_< Have a timestamp?

[jon041065]

*Looks at 2:07:06 time for the thing. Says it's in the latter part 12:00 in.*

<_< Have a timestamp?

https://youtu.be/UPh-GOdyRiA?t=4645 When they start talking about what a limited job is and their reasons why.