Quote Originally Posted by Melichoir View Post
Umm what?

First, Im not only talking about raids, Im talking about general content. Again, 5 minute AVs are a thing. And then since were talking about Savage content - How do you think people are clearing that with full BLU parties? Oh yeah, theyre using final sting towards the end to burst the boss down. You dont give enough credit to how people theory craft and test this stuff to find the most efficient means of doing content. It would be pretty likely that BLU would become a must bring class if left relatively unchanged - something the devs were keen on cutting down on this xpac.

Leaving these skills in runs you into 1 of 2 possibilities: 1) The Skills get nerfed to such a niche point that most players are like "well, whatever, Im not gonna waste my time figuring out what works where.", or 2) Skills remain relatively unaltered and BLU becomes mandatory in current content due to how some of these skills function.
Looking at general content with the previous suggestion made by sarehptar where certain skills could be unavailable for certain duties, just like level sync. Where in a duty the dungeon will disallow you to use moves that are above the duty’s level cap. The concept of that can be applied to general content for blue mages preventing the use of overpowered or broken spells in normal duty finder.

Thank you for reminding me about theory crafting, as they do it for all classes. Maxing out as much DPS as Possible with every single job, providing the best rotation for DPS and Tanks as well as advice on when to DPS and Heal as a healer. So to say Blue will become mandatory is to say all optimized classes will be mandatory. Meaning it requires Skill and Gear. Not because of a job being better than the others. Even though that has been proven with Summoner. People will always try to find the best way to deal damage to any class no matter what. Optimization is always and has been in the game even without Blue Mage, Look at A Realm Reborn, we had tanks with strength accessories melded with materia and especially crafted melded accessories at that to maximise DPS potential in Coil of Bahamut.

Again, disabling a certain ability in certain duties like how Level Sync disables certain moves depending on your level in the current duty will work to prevent cheesing mechanics as well as preventing the mandatory use of Blue Mages. If players don’t want to figure out how to play as a Blue Mage, there are people and guides to teach them how. If they still refuse to learn, well it is another optional class like how I can say “I prefer to do raids as a caster or range but I don’t like playing as a melee or healer during raids” It is an option, nobody is forcing you to take up Blue Mage. Besides, there may be guides saying Blue Mage is the best option for DPS there will still be players who choose to play something else and they can still outperform other classes. This is gear, skill and rotation. Either you learn to deal out the best DPS you can or bring in low effort DPS.

I noticed that myself when near the end in all raids, Blue Mages just use the final sting combo to efficiently down the boss. Fair enough, but if it was a real raid with an actual party would you think they would do something like that. If that were the case nerfing the potency would be able to fix it but it defeats the purpose of a suicide move. Honestly the same could be applied for Red Mages and Summoners since they both have the best utility in terms of raising people mid fight during raids. Another idea to nerf it is to add another debuff that prevents you from being raised for 30 seconds to 1 minute. Seems like a fair trade off. Dealt a damage worth 1 minute of your DPS in return you cannot be raised until after a minute and after raise you’ll still have the debuff plus weakness. I would like to point out that if this was to be applied, this move would never be used in raids unless near the end or near the enrage timer, considering that if the person cannot be raised and there is a mechanic requiring 8 people, it is a definite wipe.