JUST FOR DISCUSSION: How would YOU make BLU a normal job with rotation

[Lambdafish]

Making BLU balanced for endgame content does not require that it acquire its skills in the same way. It's not among the first job choices; as a bonus job, it doesn't need to have the same ease of skill acquisition as everyone else. You can give it whatever additional requirements for 8-man content of their level that you want. To say that they must lose their unique content (skill acquisition) or must be unable to join in any and all standard content at level is a blatantly false ultimatum.

Simple fact is that duty finder/party finder exists. If you go into content without a specific skill, you could cause a lot of toxicity. The Devs have spent years trying to iron these problems out of the game, I doubt they would go backwards.

BLU wasn't a "sidequest activity" in XI so wrong there. Sure, some would be turned off by the idea of having to go collect spells before running most content but there are also a lot of us that are fine with it and don't mind the idea of advanced jobs.

The simple fact that you had to collect the spells in XI makes it side content. The difference between XI and XIV is that in XI you could also use it in content. I want you to go back to XI and tell me if you think the jobs are balanced and fair.

XI is a different beast that lacks job balance, group finders and the tight gameplay that requires jobs to be structured similarly.