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    JohnSpawnVFX's Avatar
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    Kaynneth Menad
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    You forgot that all tank stances are just copies of each other and that Aspected Benefic is just Cure I with a regen or shield added to it. Or that the gameplay is just mindlessly pressing buttons.

    Oh look, anyone can paint something they dislike in a really bad light, if they reach really hard.
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    Toki Tsuchimi
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    I hopped in to test the waters and immediately felt bored. It's like SE doesn't realize why BLU is getting a bad rep. Yes the fundamental gimmick of a BLU is there, but with no basic system to guide players it's all just a jumbled mess of boring.

    Quote Originally Posted by JohnSpawnVFX View Post
    You forgot that all tank stances are just copies of each other and that Aspected Benefic is just Cure I with a regen or shield added to it. Or that the gameplay is just mindlessly pressing buttons.

    Oh look, anyone can paint something they dislike in a really bad light, if they reach really hard.
    You're missing the point. It's not the fact that things are reskinned, it's how that reskin is presented to us. Also the issue comes down to, how many different Redskins do we need within the same job. It makes "sense" to have 6 different AoE versions of a skill because of the elemental weaknesses. But how many variations on those skills do we need? Not to mention BLU has like no single target moves, so you have to be careful when pulling mobs. There is also the fact that BLU has no combo skills, and skills that do combo rely on status ailments that lose their potency over time.

    People know that basically everything is a reskin, but BLU doesnt do a good job of making that. For SE it seems their main focus is collecting the spells, but they seem to have forgotten that those spells need a purpose too.

    Plus the biggest issue is claiming BLU is designed as "solo content" but then making a majority of it require group play. How does that make sense. I mean why have skills in dungeons if we can't enter them without other players
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    Deceptus Keelon
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    Quote Originally Posted by Eloah View Post
    I hopped in to test the waters and immediately felt bored. It's like SE doesn't realize why BLU is getting a bad rep. Yes the fundamental gimmick of a BLU is there, but with no basic system to guide players it's all just a jumbled mess of boring.



    You're missing the point. It's not the fact that things are reskinned, it's how that reskin is presented to us. Also the issue comes down to, how many different Redskins do we need within the same job. It makes "sense" to have 6 different AoE versions of a skill because of the elemental weaknesses. But how many variations on those skills do we need? Not to mention BLU has like no single target moves, so you have to be careful when pulling mobs. There is also the fact that BLU has no combo skills, and skills that do combo rely on status ailments that lose their potency over time.
    Especially when those "elemental" skills are pointless outside of the Masked Carnivale, which we didn't get an update for in the lvl 60 content.
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    Veteran healers don't care if we need to heal, but right now we don't. We want interesting things to do during the downtime other than a 30s dot and a single filler spell that hasn't changed from lvl 4 to lvl 90.
    Dead DPS do no DPS. Raised DPS do 25/50% lower DPS. Do the mechanics and don't stand in bad stuff.
    Other games expect basic competence, FFXIV is pleasantly surprised by it. Other games have toxic elitism. FFXIV has toxic casualism.[/LIST]

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    Eloah's Avatar
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    Quote Originally Posted by Deceptus View Post
    Especially when those "elemental" skills are pointless outside of the Masked Carnivale, which we didn't get an update for in the lvl 60 content.
    Agreed

    Also can I just say I hate auto correct on my phone. Apparently BLU has too many Redskins, argh... T.T

    Shoot me. But stun me first for more damage. Lol
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    I like helping people with their Job ideas, it's fun to help them visuallize and create the job they'd like to play most. Plus I make my own too, I'll post them eventually.

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    Iyami Galvayra
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    Quote Originally Posted by Deceptus View Post
    Especially when those "elemental" skills are pointless outside of the Masked Carnivale, which we didn't get an update for in the lvl 60 content.
    There are five more stages added to the Carnivale after the first level 60 quest.

    Of course, I've only tried one, and it seems to be the same "damage sponge with a gimmick that will kill you if you don't have the right spell on hand" as most of the rest of them. So it's not really very compelling, just more of the same.
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