The Blue Mage Argument at a glance

[GrenGarm]

I don't get how you don't see the way you contradict yourself.
"11 and 14 are totally different"
"all MMO's are the same"
Also I'm not saying this work for X game so lets try it with 14. I'm saying is The Dev team is trying something new and interesting. Let us hold off on passing judgement until we get the final product.

Also exclusion from [current content] is not equivalent to a single player game.

I guess there's no room for nuance in this discussion. Every MMO has its own idiosyncrasies, and certain designs work better in some MMOs than others. But at the end of the day, a class is a class. Across the board, if a class is specifically locked out of a huge swath of the game's content -- not by player perception, but by the devs themselves -- then it's not a real class. I want BLU as a real class. You don't. That's fine, but stop trying to tell me that I have to try it out before I judge or that the BLU design is a good idea. I don't and it isn't. And I'm going to keep saying that until Square hears it.