Blue Mage might actually be a good thing.

[AC9Breaker]

Nice Necrobump. Anyway I came here looking to see peoples reactions to level 70BLU cap and being locked out of Ultimate cause it would make people who payed money struggled with Ultimates angry.

[Leidolf]

Why have you forsaken us, SE?


At least give a better excuse than it'll attract rage from others. We get that regularly. If you're going to keep us out of regular duty finder, at least open up the rest.

[RyuDragnier]

The lack of ultimate upsets me. They could at least just copy/paste the entire fight and make it so only BLU can enter that variant, with an exclusive golden cane for doing it, and an exclusive title. That way doing it on BLU doesn't count for regular ultimate, you just get the BLU ultimate clear, not the regular ultimate clear.

[Grimoire-M]

I’m glad it can’t go into ultimate. SE would need to add multiple LB-like abilities to fix the gaps in its kit. And it still needs to fix other major gaps in its Tanking/Healing kit that would make it an absolute chore to fit in properly.

[ADVSS]

The lack of ultimate upsets me. They could at least just copy/paste the entire fight and make it so only BLU can enter that variant, with an exclusive golden cane for doing it, and an exclusive title. That way doing it on BLU doesn't count for regular ultimate, you just get the BLU ultimate clear, not the regular ultimate clear.

The weakest part of their reasoning is that they let undersize party go on for so long, honestly. They didnt seem to care about people that cleared content when it was hard and relelvant very much before. But at least we got a clear answer on BLU, Its just going to be your Stormblood fate grinding job now it seems Ixion Fate, beware! BLU is coming for you next!

[Karshan]

The weakest part of their reasoning is that they let undersize party go on for so long, honestly. They didnt seem to care about people that cleared content when it was hard and relelvant very much before. But at least we got a clear answer on BLU, Its just going to be your Stormblood fate grinding job now it seems Ixion Fate, beware! BLU is coming for you next!

Because clearing Savage turns is a good thing but not an "achievement". Having someone kill it in "easy mode" 2 years later doesn't devalue anything because those turns are irrelevant today.

It is entirely different for ultimate. There can't be an easy mode, else the value of it crashes. Clearing UCOB, UWU or TEA today even months after world 1st is still an achievement even if it is old content, since it's the hardest piece of content in the game and still is relevant. You're a top 1%. I don't think with blu suddenly 15% would clear but I understand Square won't take that risk, and I'm with them on that.

[Payadopa]

I think BLU isn't as bad as people make it out to be. Skill hunting is fun and I have a reason to go through the gorgeous overworld. But at the same time it's a let down for people who wanted BLU as a main. Or that it's always lagging behind level wise. And it's a crime when you compare it to XI's version, honestly.

[AceofRains]

I think BLU isn't as bad as people make it out to be. Skill hunting is fun and I have a reason to go through the gorgeous overworld. But at the same time it's a let down for people who wanted BLU as a main. Or that it's always lagging behind level wise. And it's a crime when you compare it to XI's version, honestly.

BLU is absolutely fun. Everything about it is super cool. The problem is in the fact that I want to be able to progress the game as a BLU because it’s so fun. Blue Mage makes it so painfully obvious that some of the other jobs should have better CC options, and make even their own instant death type spells. Most of all, I don’t want to always have to be grouped with another BLU. One of the best things about normal progression is seeing the variety of jobs that you might be matched with.

[silverdragontyr]

Blu is exactly why other jobs don't have CC options or instant death. It makes some content trivial. It also makes those job far more desired than others. Nin can now instant KO any single lesser enemy on a 90 second cooldown. Why bring a Drg when you can bring 4-5 Nin that do effectively 10x the DPS when you consider they eliminate enemies other job have to damage down?

I enjoy Blu a lot. I think they should be allowed in roulette for old content like alliance raid and main story; but I understand why they're not at 80 or allowed in certain content.

[RyuDragnier]

Blu is exactly why other jobs don't have CC options or instant death. It makes some content trivial. It also makes those job far more desired than others.

We used to HAVE CC options on all the classes back in ARR (if you remember). MNK and BRD could silence, MNK and DRG could stun, NIN could do both (but had to switch stances and use the same move to do either), BLM and WHM could put enemies to sleep, SMN and WHM could heavy, etc. It didn't break the game, and the raids were actually designed around having to CC to deal with enemies (again, if you remember). In quite a few of them you had to keep enemies away from party members or bosses using CC in order to avoid 1-shot mechanics or other annoying things. But the casual subset of the playerbase, in its infinite complaining, resulted in a lot of those moves being taken out or stripped of their CC.