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[GucciSan]

A poll with questions along those lines would be favorable over the earlier poll from around BLU's announcement. Not to criticize the proposed poll, but I find myself scratching my head at those who wish to see Blue Mage made so powerful that it can conquer threats like Shiva Extreme at level 50 all on its own. To achieve that, its strength would have to be increased tenfold, or effects like Tail Screw would have to work which would be a cheap win.

In either case, it's highly unlikely that SE would allow a job with that much power anywhere near max level without limiting what content the job can access even further. It's sole purpose (outside of collecting spells and Masked Carnival) would be to blaze through outdated content. To which I have to ask... why not blaze through old content as a level 80 Blue Mage?

Heck, if SE wanted to (and they probably wouldn't) they could make spells like Tail Screw work against all bosses from dungeons and trials as long as it's at least 10 levels lower than your own. That would allow for Blue Mage to feel broken in old content as long as they enter unsynced. And it wouldn't upset balance for current content or synced content (like Roulette) as those spells could be made ineffective against all bosses of comparable level.

I just... don't see what there is to gain by keeping Blue Mage limited. A lot of what people want can still be achieved while allowing Blue Mage to function as a full job.

I've seen some ideas thrown around and I'm starting to agree with them, in that maybe what SE was referring to when it came to the "solo" aspect was the Carnivale itself and not the idea of soloing any dungeons or trials. Maybe it's output is lackluster not due to oversight but because that's what they wanted in the first place, and it really down to its core isn't meant for traditional combat.

Then I started thinking about it some more...say they did buff BLU's potencies to a "soloable" degree: why would anyone play any other Job for 50 content if they could just solo through it? Any sort of farming wouldn't need a group anymore, if you could just hop on BLU and one-shot everything? It would throw everything into disarray, and wouldn't necessarily kill grouping for 50 farms, but you'd see a whole lot less of it. The more I think about it the more I think everything has so far been going according to whatever plan they have.

Or maybe I'm just overthinking it at this point.