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[Reynhart]

So why play one of the harder jobs instead of the easier ones? Because it's what you enjoy better and fits your personal preferences.

In case you didn't look at several DRK threads, that's basically one of the main complain about it, having to work harder for at best the same result as PLD or WAR.

Besides, you mistake more difficult to play with more difficult to build, when that's two completely different things, since BLU would also require a certain level of skill to play after you obtained all the spells. One option you could have is for BLU damage to only be tied to their level and not their stat. So, they'd have more work to do to earn their spells, but less work to do to gear themselves. Or, like FFXI, that equipping the spells would actually give you bonus stats.

You're already coming into this with the idea that "This can't work because I can't envision it working and don't agree with it therefore this option is invalid" so there's not even a point discussing it.

That's not what I said. You came with a "Do you want a different BLU ?" option and I replied "Sure, what BLU are you suggesting ?", to which you basicaly answered "I have no idea". Which is sad, when other people, like GucciSan, actually provided suggestions, which I found very interesting as a compromise. I even suggested myself how one skill could be tweaked to fit party play. That's discussing.

At best the same? Mind Blast is required for the level 20 quest and is 20 potency higher than Fire II, plus it causes Paralysis. It's just downright better than Fire II.

BLU doesn't have Astral Fire

For another thing, open world skill gathering means BLU can take risks to get skills earlier than it normally would, which is a pretty big bonus tbf while leveling.

But if BLU is just a regular job, nothing matters aside from level cap content, so having a skill earlier is not that big of a deal.