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[Alleo]

Wow... why are like the first 10 spells I read say they come from dungeons that I would have to use a premade party to get... I thought this was a solo job....

I just counted. 25 of 49 abilities come from dungeons or trials... good luck in PF all you BLUs out there.

Not only that but a few of them are also from extreme trials. So either the other skills are that awesome that you can do this with maybe 2-3 blue mages or you will need 8 of them or even lvl 70 players to get the skills. Some at reddit even pointed out that you would need to wait for it to be cast thus if you do this with lvl 70 players you will have to be really careful not to skip it.

Some of those skills seems also to be behind achievements. Strange way of learning them all from monsters SE...so I really fail to understand how this would have stopped them from putting some skills behind a instance rotation..

Nothing in there says "never", unless you count the same "never" people assumed when asked if we'd ever have a Blue Mage or if they would ever release a job mid-expansion. At best, it says that it will be difficult to raise the level cap 30 levels higher during the course of 5.x.

But if BLU has its level cap raised by 20 levels while others gains 10 levels, it can be on par with everything in early 6.x.

They also said that it would not be balanced in group content so why should they even give it max level? This would just mean that they need to make sure that people cant go into current raids with premades thus extra time to programm things.

[Reynhart]

This would just mean that they need to make sure that people cant go into current raids with premades thus extra time to programm things.

I don't think it would be that difficult to simply exclude BLU from Raid Finder. Once the difficult content goes to Duty Finder, the competitive aspect is far less relevant, so balance is not that much of an issue.

[Shirosama]

The problem with what you just said is that you are completely ignoring where they straight up said it would never hit full lvl cap at the same time as anything else. You are saying lets wait and hope that they don't do what they already said they are going to do as if they never said they were going to do it. If that comes off as convoluted it's because i'm having to dance around the convolution that is your logic. They have stated that it is not and never will be an actual job. It is a minigame hiding under the title of job. So go ahead and wait to see how a minigame designed by the se devs turns out. Diadem, Verminion, Triple Triad, The Gold Saucer, and for most Chocobo Racing, all dead failures.

Cept they never said that. you need to read again and not put words in the dev's mouths

[Arkdra]

So all in all SE is fucked up. It as much solo as eureka. So if you dony rush doing blur day 1 you are fucked. I like how they force " side content ".
What more all the op skills will not work on bosses at all as they got no lvl. Why its limited job?
Blue be a dps as hp/def go, so soloing dungeons befor you like over lvled them by 30 lvls will not be a thing.
How will bleu do 40+ dungeons/fates in a blue party/solo.

You have literally no idea what will and won't work on bosses beyond we know that level 5 death will work on dungeon midbosses and not the endbosses. You can reasonably extrapolate that this will also probably apply to the 4 or so low chance kill spells, but there's no way to know until we get in game. Also, I doubt very much that you will need to do the extreme trials, considering one of the very first things they showed in the blu reveal, and then confirmed later in an interview, is fighting shiva in a solo instance. But even if you do, people do the arr ex primals all the time for wt and mount farming so this isn't exactly going to be dead content once the blu rush is over.

[Liale]

Cept they never said that. you need to read again and not put words in the dev's mouths

They did say it, during the fanfest live letter, I don't have to put words in their mouths when they already did it themselves.

[Reynhart]

They did say it, during the fanfest live letter, I don't have to put words in their mouths when they already did it themselves.

Well, as long as you can't provide any official source, it's only your words.

[Videra]

They did say it, during the fanfest live letter, I don't have to put words in their mouths when they already did it themselves.

Gonna need some of that sauce, please.

[Kurando]

Moving on.... I was a little surprised on the job symbol for BLU being some type of glasses or visor, I was picturing something different like a spellbook or a pimp cane.

[Jandor]

I fail to see how making the dungeons above level 50 unavailable/grayed-out to players currently on BLU wouldn't sidestep this. Is the spaghetti-coding that bad? For me that's like saying "You're not level 50 on this new job you're leveling yet, so since you can't queue-up for Snowcloak you can't queue up for any dungeons from ARR at all until you hit level 50 on it first."

Not even any need to code anything to be honest. You can't queue for a squad dungeon you're not high enough level for anyway.

[Shirosama]

They did say it, during the fanfest live letter, I don't have to put words in their mouths when they already did it themselves.

Again except they didn't say anything like that. other people have even linked the exact quote. at this point you're making yourself look foolish by saying they said something when they didn't.

to quote what Reynhart posted:

It might be difficult to expect the level cap to reach level 80 during 5.0.

"Game watch: Will BLUs catch up to level 80 during 5.x?
Yoshida: If we keep raising the level cap with that pace, us developers and players will all faint (bitter smile)."

Nothing in what Yoshi-P said eludes to anything you've posted thus far. so unless you have actual statements from the devs to back your claims you're talking nonsense.