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So I owe a formal apology to the Blue Salt that has been around since November FanFest.

Now I'm level 50, I did a good bunch of the Masked Carnival and only have a few skills to get on primals.

For me:
It's not fun to level up from 1 to 50 through mob grinding, even with the exploit.
It's not fun to form parties for a dungeon otherwise closed to BLU to get a skill (for solo content)
It's not fun to have 49 skills when almost 50% of them are either useless, one time use or a copy of another skill.
It's not fun to go through stages of the solo instance when it all comes down to roughly the same content : figuring which spell is mandatory to get through.
It's not fun to lock skills behind absurd RNG (100 Ramuh runs made it clear for me)

I think I'd rather have had a watered down blue mage to fit the FFXIV system, or no blue mage at all.

And a practical question:
Why can BLU job quests be locked behind the obtention of a skill, but DF can't be locked in the same way to prevent BLU to queue there, as it was Yoshi P's concern?

[BillyKaplan]

Why can BLU job quests be locked behind the obtention of a skill, but DF can't be locked in the same way to prevent BLU to queue there, as it was Yoshi P's concern?

I think just because you have it unlocked, doesn't mean you'll have it equipped on your hotbar. Or some weak justification like that.
But that leads us, once again, to the double standard regarding BLU. Because there's no guarantee that anyone else has their on-level skills, given that 30-60 + 70 job skills are locked behind quests people might not do. And just because they have them, doesn't mean they'll use them, either.

A BLU player will not be better or worse than they are on other classes, is what it boils down to.

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I think just because you have it unlocked, doesn't mean you'll have it equipped on your hotbar. Or some weak justification like that.
But that leads us, once again, to the double standard regarding BLU. Because there's no guarantee that anyone else has their on-level skills, given that 30-60 + 70 job skills are locked behind quests people might not do. And just because they have them, doesn't mean they'll use them, either.

A BLU player will not be better or worse than they are on other classes, is what it boils down to.

I'd go with a system with mandatory skills (basically build a rotation of 6 elemental spells that build combos, one or two DoTs, Debuffs and you're set), and then as we can change our Role skill actions between each pull, we could just equip spells for a precise trash pull or a boss.