Quote Originally Posted by jon041065 View Post
There are pretty much required spells on XI's blu depending on if you're going as melee or cleaving caster with many spells becoming obsolete as you level and STILL it's one of the most popular jobs in that game. I don't believe it would be an issue in 14 especially since you could just target the spells for the roles you are interested in and not worry about the others.
This isn't XI though. XI has it's own engine that operates differently from XIV. BLU won't have the choice go as a melee or a caster. In raiding content, it will be assigned a slot, and that is where it will go. The way BLU is coming into XIV now is actually more similar to how I remember playing it in XI than it would be if brought in to fit into current content in XIV. If brought in to fit current content, BLU would be closer to the casters we already have. Do you really want that? Just think about our SMN class before answering that.

Actually, I don't really see anyone saying to just make blu work in the full game before 5.0 releases. Most of us seem to be fine with waiting for them to do the updates like they said IF we knew that by 6.0 we would have blu available for the FULL game.
If this is truly the case, then it's time for those concerned about this version of BLU coming into FFXIV to wait things out and see how things go. SE can't brush this aside like how they have with the squadron and companion systems. They are going to have to continuously keep BLU updated. They are going to have to allow progression into lv60, 70, and 80. If they rely on heavy RNG to acquire skills to stretch things out, it's going to be bad.

I think you are partially correct though. A lot of the initial shock has become calm, but that doesn't mean that players still aren't chomping at the bit already for 5.0 announcements concerning BLU. As it is now, if you are on board then when 4.5 comes give it a go. It definitely isn't going to be tough to do pre-made parties with all them that will be running around.