Quote Originally Posted by JiSH View Post
personally, i prefer losing some of the job fantasy and getting a fully properly working normal job instead of just getting a limited one that can't be used for normal contents/df, since we're talking about opinion, my stance is that i want to raid as a Blue Mage cause that's my main content, and i love Blue Mage as a job in the franchise so i was very excited when they bring it to ffxiv, but not like this lol
And yet this community consistantly proves you wrong in that assessment.

"Muh SMN Egis"
"Muh RDM being a dps instead of being distilled mediocrity with refresh"
"Muh DRK dps with a scyyyyyyythe! (Linkin Park blaring in the background)"
"Muh BRD/Ranger/WAR/SCH we're not a guranteed slot anymore so muh class fantaseeee"

I could go on but you get the idea. The bottom line is, they wanted to preserve BLUs identity and gameplay loop and they believe it couldn't be done within the framework of this games class balance. And, to be quite frank, none of the suggestions or class reconstruction threads I have seen have proven to me otherwise. Those other classes could be modified to fit the class paradigm, BLU couldn't without ripping the guts out of what made the class unique.