Quote Originally Posted by BillyKaplan View Post
They literally have in place a system that would enable BLU (and subsequent Limited Jobs) to be DF ready, and have already made adjustments to skill acquisition towards a similar end. They can do all that, without taking anything away from the content exclusive to the Limited Jobs.
The reasoning, not necessarily the implementation, is that to be "DF ready", you must be balanced with all other jobs, but "collect jobs" like BLU (And maybe Beastmaster or Puppetmaster in the future) have to do an extra-work to earn their skills, as opposed to usual jobs who simply gain them by leveling, so they think it's not very fair to have to work more for overall the same results.

A suggestion I made somes pages ago would be for "collect jobs" to not gain anything through gear, and that their complete stats and efficiency would be tied to the skills they've collected. This way, you could be "balanced", and simply shift the extra work from "obtaining gear" to "obtaining skills". You could even have main stats tied to the skills you've learned and substats tied to the skills you've equipped (For example, equipping Mighty Guard could give +15 Tenacity for each spell you've learned), to create an ersatz of itemization.