Quote Originally Posted by Burningskull View Post
Ummm... why could you not learn spells and still be a proper job? They could have easily given you a quest every 5 levels where your job trainer says "hey I've descovered a new mob for you to try and learn it's move.
Because that's not "hunting for spells", it's "mandatory acquisition of skills in a specific order".
First, you wouldn't have to seek where to learn the spell (Which is saddly, what everyone is doing because they rushed to see the datamine instead of discovering by themselves)
Second, you wouldn't have to think of a way to learn some abilities sooner than what's expected, to give an edge.
Third, you wouldn't have to strategically chose your spells to deal with a specific situation (Well, apparently, this one is not done very well, but still, that's the intent)

So, basically, you'd work the same as every other, with the additionnal burden of having RNG to determine if your quest is successful. And if you remove RNG, it's even less hunting for spells...
Quote Originally Posted by xbahax92 View Post
If they wanted to give us a new sort of collectathon, they could've simply done this without sacrificing blue mage.
Well, from what they said, without that collectathon aspect, we simply wouldn't have Blue Mage...at all. So they didn't sacrifice anything.