Blue Mage: Are you kidding me!?

[MrKimper]

I mean the balance argument isn't even an argument at all. I hate to break it to people but it really isn't. Let's go role by role shall we?

Tanks, not balanced effectively and has not been effectively balanced all expansion.

Healer, laughably unbalanced and we aren't even sure if they have any clue on what to do to fix it.

Melee DPS, this is probably the closest to actual balance but still as stated before.. go talk to a SAM.

Skipping Ranged Physical for a moment.. So on with casters, this is a role that feels pretty well balanced but in reality it's not all that balanced, it's on very thin ice so dropping another caster into the mix will shatter the actual delicate balance they have now and you'll relegate all these caster mains into the pigeon hole that.. MCH have suffered in this entire expansion!

Which brings us back around to Physical Ranged DPS!! YAY!!! To even suggest that this role is anywhere near balanced is a laughable joke. Go look at the MCH threads on these forums. Go ahead. I'll wait.. It's fine. Go look. Better yet.. Go talk to a machinist and tell them they're perfectly balanced with BRD. I dare you. So end of an expansion, while preparing for a massive patch, a massive expansion, in the beginning of the press tour for said expansion, with HUGE changes to the game systems in the form of the world visit, trust, and new game + systems.. you want them to suddenly get together.. perfect all the roles job balances that they have not been able to do in all of ARR, HW, or SB, and won't be able to do in SB2, so we can effectively drop BLU in and not destroy the pseudo balance we have now.. Good luck with that. Tell me how it goes for you.

There is no pseudo balance. At the end of the day every job is playable in all content and can be used to CLEAR all content, are some jobs blatantly better than others at higher speed running tiers? yes. Does this matter at all outside of those higher tiers? absolutely not.

So please don't try and use the "muh meta" excuse for something like that, the reason why jobs like MCH, DRK and WHM get flak is not because of their lack of use in "the meta" it's because they play awfully, absolutely awfully and a lot of their core mechanics are unwieldy, this goes doubly so when doing HW/ARR content where most of their previous skills have been gutted(Lul DRK)

So yes, yes we should expect them to try to balance BLU, even if they fail at it, they should TRY to implement it into the game just like they should TRY and fix DRK MCH and WHM. God forbid we have some sort of variety before SB2 drops that isn't another atma/diadem/fate farm.