As an FFXI player, thank you for Limited Jobs and BLU SE

[Phoenicia]

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Holy poop mate,you're getting overly defensive and are dragging irrelevant groups of people (regardless or being a minority or majority) into something because you refuse to have the slightest bits of empathy. How is that not toxic, entitled, selfish or all combined? Why is this even becoming you vs us vs devs?

People complaining about BLU being limited isn't about raiding AT ALL, it is about seeing something with very good potential for fun, the very same thing you want, being blocked into irrelevance.

NOTHING says you can't have your little fun of learning spells from monsters and and that crappy carnival and STILL have the job function as a normal one. We Both can have our fun. You in your "casual" thing and me in my "not casual".... "thing".

BLU is broken, and it's the bad kind of broken. You don't want one in your group.

BLU average potency is crap. Yes some spells can do 420 potency but the require a GCD of 90 or no damage before them. Add to that the lack or the most important stat, weapon damage, and it takes years to kill things.

Suicide spells are bad. No matter what they do. Solo or group content. They are fun to use though. I would see it padding nicely if used at the end of an encounter.

The tank "stance" is horrid. It's a casters in casting gear. 40% damage reduction and you still take more than twice what a tank would... without their tank stance. And the cost is 70 flipping percent DPS reduction on already abysmally low potency spells. Heck, we tanks refuse to enter our tank stance AT ALL and it barely hits us for 25% throughput.

White Wind is cool and can be too strong on a DPS. But the MP cost is steep. Also you can stick a CD on it and it's no stronger than Divine Veil or Mantra.

There are many ways both sides of the players could benefit. All the BLU "defenders" sound to me is: "I finally have something I like and you don't, it's mine and you can't have it." When in reality all we're saying: "why half a cookie when we could have it whole?".

This is the nail on the coffin with how I feel. I mean, look at how much fun we had in this Syrcus Tower!!
https://youtu.be/qZ8MiG_npv4

Back in ARR we did a class only Syrcus Tower (as in no job crystals). We did Only 24 WAR and we did 1 DPS alliance, 1 healer alliance and 1 tank alliance. I did 8 WAR Ravana kills. Xenosys Vex did 8 WAR raids for too many fights to count. Heck,an "all arcanist" O1S kill was done (5 Summoners and 3 Scholars where titan pets tanked). All of those were "most fun we've had"..... For the first time we did it, then it's just "been there done that". Wouldn't make any of the jobs(classes in case of no job crystal) the most fun job. So I don't see where you're trying to go other than "this was REALLY fun."... I don't expect you to have a "can't wait for my 23 BLU buddies to do this again" for the rest of the patch.