Blue mage shouldnt be "Limited"

[P0W3RK1D]

In order for BLU to be a normal job you have to either destroy what makes the class interesting, or provide a horrible user experience that doesn't match the "normal" classes but is pretending to be.

Well what would you say is the point of having a blue mage in the game if you cant really use it to "play the game? i mean there has to be some point to it right? Right now Blue mage is a novelty shop item -- you have it because it looks and feels nice, but your not really actually going (or rather you cant) actually use it for anything important. The fact that i cant at the very least play through current Treasure maps, Dngs, or Main storyline quests with what is one of my favorite classes in the franchise is already runing the experience for me.

[ItMe]

[...] but your not really actually going (or rather you cant) actually use it for anything important.

I guess we just define "important" differently...

[Koka-Kola]

I guess we just define "important" differently...

I would say story, current expansion and dungeons are important since its over a third if not half of the game.

[ItMe]

I would say story, current expansion and dungeons are important since its over a third if not half of the game.

The story is important, yes.
What job you watch cutscenes as... I feel that's less so.

Dungeons are important, and BLU not only has access to dungeons but also a unique ways to interact with them. Yay.

The current expansion is lovely, and BLU will have access to it's content soon enough. Being able to use BLU in content while it's current would be nice, but meh. YMMV. Some care some don't.

Again, they said:

your not really actually going (or rather you cant) actually use it for anything important.

(Which they appear to have edited out of their post)
And I guess we just define "important" differently.

[P0W3RK1D]

The story is important, yes.
What job you watch cutscenes as... I feel that's less so.

Your argument is strawman-city dude.
You dont just play in cutscenes, (some of which are epic btw) , but you also have action segments where you atucally PLAY YOUR CHARACTER.

Dungeons are important, and BLU not only has access to dungeons but also a unique ways to interact with them. Yay.

of course we can enter dungeons, EVERYONE can, but Blue mages are the only ones who are forced to premake their parties instead of using duty finder (not to mention were currently 10 lvs under everyone else, so we cant even do current dngs). And what do you mean by "unique ways to interact with them?" what unique ways?

The current expansion is lovely, and BLU will have access to it's content soon enough. Being able to use BLU in content while it's current would be nice, but meh. YMMV. Some care some don't.

As a JOB blue mages should be able to do CURRENT content. Who wants to content that is 10-20 levels UNDER what everyone else have? they would have no use for the gear, the magic of doing it for the first time (often through the storyline) would be depleated, while everyone is rerunning trials, going through side-stories, and doing late-game events like maps, fates and others you would be effectivley locked out of the content, and if not directly hard-locked youd would would be under leveled, under geared and useless.
You dont seem to care about BLU much, but I know there are a lot of people who do care, and would like to actually do something relevant with the job.

[ItMe]

Your argument is strawman-city dude.

I will never cease to be amazed by how often people on this forum love to pretend they know what this means.

You think going through the story as your job is important.
I think going through the story is important, and the job you do it as is a very minor and hardly relevant detail.

what do you mean by "unique ways to interact with them?" what unique ways?

You learn spells? You have a whole system that no other job has?
BLU is, as Ultimatecalibur said, "about warping standard gameplay and going back through irrelevant content to break it harder."

Who wants to content that is 10-20 levels UNDER what everyone else have?

I regularly do content from previous expacs. I have not exhausted all that the game has to offer, and even if I had some may find that BLU being a novel way to revisit old content has value in and of itself.