Quote Originally Posted by JiSH View Post
That could be the right direction, but maybe if they choose to do that they'll have to cut down some of the current skills first, cause there are some skills that are downright gimmicky, or "useless", in a way.
To make BLU a normal job i think they should look into how to make them usable while not being overpowered, cut some of the gimmick skills, add in more essentials, or options if they want to do other roles than DPS. I say this because in the end the end game of FFXIV is High End Duty, and the current BLU setup doesn't really fit into it. It'll be a hard work cause they have to add and remove and adjust a lot of stuffs, but i think it's doable.
not useless per se, because somewhere down the line they can be tuned to have different attack type (physical, magical, unaspected) but atm they have similar potency and effect that it's practically the same thing. the only difference is probably 10 or 20 potency or lower cast time. Ideally we want to shave those off.
and i think It's definitely doable. given how little they have new contents this expansion(although it could be due to COVID), shaving some skills and adding a basic stuff won't be a problem i think. Especially when it's not really a brand new skills. They can just literally copy another caster and add blue mage skills-collecting mechanic if they want to.