Quote Originally Posted by Burningskull View Post
They don't need to balance BLU's abilities around raiding cause you're not going to be able to do any current level content. They have said in an interview that it was difficult to expect BLU to be lvl 80 in Shadowbringers. And having OP abilities in content you can Unsync isn't really a problem. There are still the 24 man raids that you can't unsync but good luck getting a pre made party every time you want to do one one BLU
I know, I'm saying this for the people who are complaining that it SHOULD be able to raid. It's unrealistic to expect them to go through (I think currently they already have 124 planned abilities, more to be added in the future) every time they need to balance the class. Sure, as someone else said...some may be useless or repeats but there's still likely to be a significant amount more and personally I think that Yosida had a lot of fun collecting abilities in other FF games as a Blue Mage from what he says so I think he wants to give them as many abilities as possible; likely each addition will be no small number. It will be too hard to balance at higher end content and that's probably why we aren't getting it. There are ways to make it possible, I'm sure. But I think it goes against what Yoshida has envisioned for the class.

Personally, I think it's kind of nice to have a completely different kind of class that is so entirely different it can't even be used in the same way. I like that we can have a totally "broken" class just for fun. But clearly we all have different opinions and that's ok too. Just saying why I think they're going this route and why it would be difficult to trash the concept without majorly changing the way Yoshida wants the class to function.