Blue Mage: Are you kidding me!?

[Darkpaw]

I think the job might still be reworked eventually into a normal job if enough people keep demanding. Maybe this way some balance might be reached someday.

While you have made a well written post. I highly doubt a normal job comes out of this. Everyone points to one thing lately that I've noticed. "We want it to be able to do all content." Like this is the only job in the game that can not do all the content. We have two sets of jobs that actually can not do all the content and they aren't "fake jobs" Disciples of Hand and Land jobs. Can't take a BSM to raid, or an ALC, or a FSH, or even a BOT. Can't run through the MSQ, or dungeons, or trials, or any of the current in fashion content for whatever patch we're in.

Could they have made a raid balanced job out of blue mage? Sure, I even half expected them to, but they chose not to. They chose a different path. They were aware from the moment they made this decision it would be divisive to say the least, but this is still where they chose to go. So there's a plan in place. If you have already prejudged it and said no I'll never play this and rabble rabble rabble, That's fine. It's apparently not content that is intended for you. It's intended for those people who have asked for more open world interaction (which this is a step in the right direction), more solo playability so people aren't automatically forced into having to be in a group to do everything (yes, it's an mmo but it doesn't mean that people want to spend all day every day being forced into groups with strangers just to do things. Sometimes it's nice to go feel productive in the world on your own.) new and innovative risk taking ideas on various forms of content, for completionists who wanted more things to collect and show off, it's meant for those people. People who never let their sub lapse but don't raid, don't stress about current tome cap, and are looking for new ways to interact with the world that isn't just grind dungeons, or throw yourself at the same raid bosses over and over and over again. Sure, as far as we know they may never make it to be able to do MSQ, but for a lot of these people I imagine. That's okay. So for those of you looking forward to BLU, enjoy the content they tried to make. For those who have determined to hate it and reject this implementation, there's still at least two more fully balanced jobs coming for you in 5.0 Please look forward to it.