How Blue Mage Could Exist in FFXIV

[Auryan]

I don't think there will be more limited jobs in this manner unless the feedback to limited BLU is overwhelmingly positive after the backlash we've already seen and the potential for it to grow and keep going after the patch.

I have to disagree that they are going out of their comfort zone. I think they right back where they are comfortable after trying to push things with BLU. It looks like work was done to have the first multi-role job and then, for whatever reason, they decided the challenge was too much/not worth it.

Why do you assume it has to be overwhelmingly well-liked? Eureka is considered a success based on the only criteria that SE truly cares about: the number of people actually doing the content. As long as a lot of people end up playing the job and show some mild enjoyment out of it, I'm sure they'd chalk it up as a win. And like Eureka, I'm sure they factored in that some people will not like BLU, no matter how fun it is.

No, I'm pretty sure they are still out of their comfort zone. Their m.o. was to always adapt an iconic job to fit as either one of three roles. That is after all what everyone expected them to do. Limited BLU still retains its hybrid aspect as well its customization when it comes to it's spell selection. It would lose a significant portion of both by being associated with the other jobs. Let's not pretend it wouldn't.

A multi-role BLU, while better than just a caster DPS, would essentially be just a hybrid BLU broken into three. And more importantly, it will play and have the same level of utility like the other jobs. Little to no attention on customization (since everything will become mandatory) and it will likely lose out on the learning aspect. At that point...why call it BLU?