BLU for Duty Finder and Raids! Show your support!

[ReiMakoto]

first, the exploit you are talking about, if it worked as you say it should, 3 successful missiles would reduce it to 12.5% health. If missile is 50% chance, with 8 mages doing it, the likelihood is 4 will land thats basically 6% health in the opening volley. That would not require incredible dps in order to defeat.

second, after that you are suggesting they should make no death skills work, even on adds. Ok, sure if they make every monster in the game immune to missile, then yeah missile will suck, but we all knew that, the point was will it be useful now.

third, its not just missile they used there that you claimed was a useless skill, diamondback, and moon flute also used to good effect.

fourth, even if missile doesnt work, why would you think they couldnt kill the monsters? They have other skills that are usefull, like rams voice, stun, petrify, and thier dps doesnt seem to be signifigantly low enough that they would be in danger.

and lastly, it shows that bluemage can infact tank and heal hard content, which is unique among dps.


You could of course say, yeah blu mage is unbalanced, it has cheesy skills which in the right situations are unfair, and it encroaches on other roles, and they should nerf these useful abilities, and make it like a regular dps, so i can enjoy the latest (not necessarily the most difficult) content. But that was not the argument you claimed.

Point is blue mage is different, it can do things no other dps can do, and it would require balancing to avoid various situational skills being OP in high level content. In order to put it into level 70 content it would have to be considerably diminished.

My point is BLU is not unique and different because non traditional team comp runs of things have been a thing since arr. Yes a successful salvo will put an add on low health, you know what else will? A team focusing properly. You know what is also random chance than can cheese mechanics, crit adlo. These things do not exclude blu. Youve yet to tell me how 8 blus doing something is more impressive than 8 tanks doing something as well. Yes they used diamondback to good effect as should be expected of any other non traditional team run, also yea they wouldnt have had the dps to kill the adds, freeze and stun wouldnt be enough to be able to get them dead (cos theyre immune to stun, dunno about petrify tho id have to check.). Point im making is (as it always has been) that blu having these things is in no way mutually exclusive to it being a job that can be used in raids, much like how an 8 scholar or 8 tank team does not make them excluded from raids or endgame. Whilst these skills can be used in all blu meme runs, that doesnt make them unbalanced for df/raids by default. Take clemency and vercure for example, these skills are practically never used in high end play, yet they are used commonly in untraditional/solo. It doesnt justify the class restriction on BLU