Limited Job #2: Beastmaster

[Lambdafish]

I don't want to adress everything here, because you and I will go in circles with this argument forever as I believe you to arguing from a fundamentally flawed and disingenuous position of what people want and what their complaints are. But what I will address is that if you think that is what I want after reading my posts, you haven't been reading them very well or youre showing how much your personal bias is tinting you. I don't want to feel like I'm doing ARR or Heavenward again, I was there at the time, I did it at the time. The stategies done then with MINOR edits and large skips due to final sting/lvl 5 death are all thats different, and the minor edit strats are no different to man mode or untradtional comp which can be done in current content. The BLU log shows me nothing, I've been clearing content with all dps or all tanks or all healers including 8 man exs since heavensward, dungeon balance is a joke, even current EX dungeons can be done easily and in good time with 4 dps not particularly well geared. This is why it has no value to me, if I wanted to do challenge runs I'd just do them, instead in my opinion they wasted my favourite job in the franchise making "challenge runs" streamlined to the point that youre basically running a normal comp just with some slight alterations, on content that was figured out years ago. Final note, definitive statements like yours saying "the content is active" is entirely relative to your server, maybe to you its active on your datacenter on mine I haven't even seen a pf fill for a dungeon in weeks and the only time BLU content gets done is when the discord runs groups, so thats a solid maybe 20-30 people on the whole data center being "active".

So we are finally getting somewhere. I would describe BLU as "performing old content in a new way", but you likening it to a challenge run isn't invalid. What you have told me is that BLU isn't your sort of content, which is absolutely fine, but it doesn't make BLU a waste of time or resources. You just identified my exact stance with PVP, its just not for me. Why is PVP or crafting fine but BLU isn't? Just because you really like BLU in another game? I'll repeat my argument, CHM is my favourite job of all time, and the devs have the right to implement CHM as ALC, same as they have the right to implement DRK as a tank despite someone on the forums whose all time favourite job is DRK hating the playstyle of tanks.

I would actually like you to address my point on constructive critisism, I would genuinely like to know an informed opinion on why BLU is a waste of resources that doesn't boil down to "I can't do 80 content with it", because that's not what it is designed to be, I can't raid with my ALC either. Once we have that reasoning, we can start asking the devs to improve BLU, and BST if they decide to implement it as a limited job. You can ask me my complaints about BLU too, I have many, the most vocal of which I have been is the branding of "limited job", I hate it.

Anyway, I assure you if BLU was a mage tank (a concept we haven't seen fully explored) or a melee/battle mage, healer or whatever that is a full job, it'll still be well accepted than the limited job BLU we got.

There are other jobs far more deserving of these concepts, Rune Fencer and Geomancer being prime candidates. Forcing BLU into these roles over these two would be a strange direction to go.