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Except if content can't be completed by yourself of course (like having only a specific type of difficulty monster drop a spell). Also the complaint is if you're going to make a job unable to take part in current content cause they're so OP then the thought is they're going to be so great you can solo with them. If they can neither solo nor take part in end game content it begs a table flipping lol.

That's not the main reason why BLU cannot join the rest of the cast. It's because it is simply not designed like the rest of the cast. Being OP or not isn't really the point (it's just part of it, in the sense that BLU isn't balanced like regular job).

Being able to solo in the overworld is not an achievement so that certainly doesn't count, we can do that with any job - even our chocobo can do that alone XD.

Never said it was an achievement. Just that overworld content can be done in solo, which goes in line with BLU design focus.
Since overworld content is solo friendly, and that BLU has a strong gameplay revolving around overworld content, it's fair to say that BLU was designed for solo play. But this doesn't mean that you can't party up, since that's also part of what's possible in overworld content.

At least that's my thought on it. Besides having to beg for a party finder to learn a skill from content that drops things that are no longer valuable to your main... Sounds like a great wait to be shouting and begging for help later down the line once the excitement train is out.

So? There's a bunch of content where new comers have to ask for help. Just make friends or join a FC that is willing to help you out. It isn't -that- hard. Especially since people have been talking about "but this is a MMORPG!" so much.

Of course Blue Mage could be capable of soloing everything, once certain spells are learned at least. Just a bit underwhelming to see the bow attack for example not melt faces like it does normally (as that makes me think they're going "balance'd" and more likely needing a party route, in which case the above "can't solo, can't current content party sentiment" arises).

Keep in mind that they said the power of skills for BLU isn't calculated out of your weapon damage like other jobs. So, we actually have no idea how powerful these skill will actually be under real play. We didn't see Yoshida's gear. So far,we only know that Shiva's Ice Bow will be a 90s cooldown skill that has a high potency. Maybe it's just an oGCD like Fleche/Contre Sixte.