Blue Mage: Are you kidding me!?

[GrenGarm]

The only thing I can say to those that have a problem with the idea of BLU, especially when it hasn't come out yet is "Cry more, your tears are delicious."

Very mature.

You are complaining about something that isn't even out yet.

Welcome to a video game forum. I don't have to play BLU to know I hate the concept of it as a limited job, and the idea of limited jobs in general. BLU's gameplay will not change my mind. If anything, if it's really fun, I'll be even more angry about the way they went about designing the job.

You are complaining about something that is so vastly different from any other class due to it's core design. We asked for a BLU mage and I cannot imagine any way to implement it in a form that would work in balanced manner.

Your imagination is pretty lacking then.

This is simply the concept of a class that is designed to learn from monsters and use already established enemy abilities in some form. This isn't MEANT to raid, this isn't MEANT to level in the normal way. It is its own unique entity and it should be seen as such by people, not as another cookie cutter class.

We know. That's why we hate it. It wouldn't have to be a cookie cutter class. This is a strawman argument.

I'm glad they are releasing something different, I'm tired of doing the same thing day in and day out for leveling and progression. This is a breath of fresh air for most people, but I'm not sorry that it doesn't work for the hardcore.

I'm not even remotely hardcore. I've always played this game solo, just using the Duty Finder. It's actually the hardcore who will get the most out of BLU because they'll have hardcore friends in their free companies to group with and get all the max-level BLU abilities ASAP.

It's because I'm NOT hardcore that I want a BLU that can use the Duty Finder.

If you are sick of the same old leveling and progression, go play Smash Bros. That's what MMOs are about.

[Songwillow]

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Look when I say 'cry more' because I am just tired of people just complaining for complaining sake over something that they haven't even tried. It is like a child that says that don't want to get their veggies because they taste gross yet they never have tasted it before.

My whole point is play it after it comes out and then you can knit pick at it.

I'm not trying to be confrontational and I'm not directing the anger to anyone specific it is generalized frustrations and arguments. I am trying to understand where the devs are coming from and support their ideas instead of being negative of what the class can and cannot do. When all you see on the forums is complaints, it just ruins your experience. Sorry if I'm being blunt, but I just have to tell it like I see it.

[GrenGarm]

Look when I say 'cry more' because I am just tired of people just complaining for complaining sake over something that they haven't even tried. It is like a child that says that don't want to get their veggies because they taste gross yet they never have tasted it before.

My whole point is play it after it comes out and then you can knit pick at it.

I'm not trying to be confrontational and I'm not directing the anger to anyone specific it is generalized frustrations and arguments. I am trying to understand where the devs are coming from and support their ideas instead of being negative of what the class can and cannot do. When all you see on the forums is complaints, it just ruins your experience. Sorry if I'm being blunt, but I just have to tell it like I see it.

I don't know how else or how many times I can say it: trying the job DOES NOT MATTER.

Imagine you're hunting for a real job in the real world to make money. Someone tells you that you can work for me. You'll have to work 80 hours a week for half the pay you're getting now. I am able to know, WITHOUT TRYING IT, that I don't want that job. Because I've had jobs in the past. I have a job now. I am able to discern, based on past experiences, what I want and what I don't want.

It's not tasting vegetables AT ALL. You can't know what a carrot tastes like until you try one. You can absolutely know a sh*tty job that you don't want when you're offered one, though.

If it was just about the design of the job, how it played from moment to moment in combat, that would be one thing. But it's not. It's the concept of a job that can't participate in the DF or current expansions that I hate. There's no "try it and see" about that. Whatsoever.