Quote Originally Posted by Kurando View Post
Problem is BLU currently cannot do Duty Finder content so when you get to point you need to progress the story you'd have to return to another (not limited) class/job to complete the relevant stuff, so effectively you'd have to level up two things at once so to speak. Besides several other jobs require you to reach level 50 (and other MSQ requirements) so it's not like it's new to BLU or anything.
Quote Originally Posted by Hezzlocks View Post
I would say it only unlocks at 50 because it isn't a real job. It's a limited job that can only level to 50 and can't take part in duty roulette, it can only do dungeons etc in a premade group. By making it require level 50, Square dodges the possibility of someone going BLU asap and pushing through ARR as a BLU, only to discover they cannot go any further and have wasted all that time and effort leveling a limited job and now must go back to level another class to press on.

That said, it's not like BLU is the only job that needs 50 to unlock. So, too, does Red Mage, Samurai, Astrologian, Dark Knight and Machinist. So it could also be because its the status quo at this point. And honestly if it weren't for the fact that BLU exclusively gets the Carnival singleplayer challenge I would have suggested Samurai and Red Mage being just as if not more solo supportive than Blue, given the ease of their gameplay and versatility of Red.
Its videos like this one that confuses me on that part https://youtu.be/L88atIG3so0
Ifrit can only be fought in a Duty Finder.

Also, I understand Red Mage, Samurai, Astrologian, Dark Knight and Machinist because they don't start at lv1. Red Mage and Samurai start at LV50, Astrologian starts at lv30, but I don't know about Machinist or Dark Knight. So they not being available till you are that lv make sense.

IDK... I understand what you are saying it's just infuriating that certain jobs are lv locked. like my brother, he saw the samurai job and wanted to play that but saw the lv50 requirement and decided not to play because he would practically have to beat the game to start playing the Job he wants to.