A question for the BLU peeps

[Tlachtga]

Added like it is. What's the point of rewriting something or gutting it to oblivion just to add it for game balance? If we wanted another mage, they could give us another mage. But people specifically wanted the Blue Mage- not a watered down mage who carries the name Blue Mage.

Speak for yourself. There's literally no point in this job when you can't do anything relevant with it.

And "watered down" like the 3 existing casters? Why does Blue Mage get favouritism in this regard? Why is "job identity" all of sudden such an important thing that they essentially quarantined the job from everyone else?

If there was a choice between no BLU and this DOA trashpile we got, I'd literally choose nothing. No joke.

[BillyKaplan]

And "watered down" like the 3 existing casters? Why does Blue Mage get favouritism in this regard? Why is "job identity" all of sudden such an important thing that they essentially quarantined the job from everyone else?

It's not just job identity, the whole "we don't want them kicked out of parties or what not because they're missing skills" is also something that literally any other job in the game suffers from, but suddenly matters for BLU. Because that WHM without regen or GLA without Soul Crystal in Aurum Vale isn't a problem? Heck people without their level 70 job quests is part of why Shinru was such a pain for so long, but you don't see them slapping a requirement for that on the trial.
BLU, tho? WE MUST PROTECT THE PLAYERS. Riiiiight.

Gonna go with option D - "why not both?"

[jon041065]

It's not just job identity, the whole "we don't want them kicked out of parties or what not because they're missing skills" is also something that literally any other job in the game suffers from, but suddenly matters for BLU. Because that WHM without regen or GLA without Soul Crystal in Aurum Vale isn't a problem? Heck people without their level 70 job quests is part of why Shinru was such a pain for so long, but you don't see them slapping a requirement for that on the trial.
BLU, tho? WE MUST PROTECT THE PLAYERS. Riiiiight.

Gonna go with option D - "why not both?"

I don't understand that they thought the solution was to keep blu out of matchmaking. Shouldn't it have been "if you're concerned about getting kicked for missing a spell then ask your friends or make a pre-made group"?