Quote Originally Posted by AceofRains View Post
Nah I’m gonna bet on it. Very few people actually respond well to the concept of limited jobs, and those of us who actually play Blue Mage more than just to 60 know that it’s not the most broken concept. A limited job is a design choice to test something that they might have thought would not work out, but at this point, Blue Mage is something that should certainly be a part of normal gameplay. Learning spells is just more natural when they can pick them up as they level in the duty finder, and it’s been beyond proven that it is not the solo content that it was intended to be because it can’t do a damn thing without getting its hand held by a party. Imagine being a healer and you get 1 raise every 300 seconds while red mage can chain raise. Limited is not working. Beastmaster does not have the same testing issues that Blue Mage does- not even close. Yoshi said it might be a limited job like a year ago when this community didn’t completely realize what a terrible idea it was. With many people desiring a Ranger class because Bard doesn’t fulfill that fantasy for them, it’s only logical to have Beastmaster fill a kind of “hunter/tamer” role.
Actually, Blue Mage is working great, from a developer standpoint. Just because you don’t enjoy how it works in this game doesn’t mean it hasn’t done well. Pretty much every person you speak to has leveled BLU to 60, or has at least unlocked it. I actually don’t think you can even find an interview where the FFXIV team has said anything but praise for how the class turned out.

Your dislike is not a universal experience. And while I personally don’t get that hype about the blue mage content, it was by no means a failure. They made side content and almost every player played it, that’s a win for them.