Quote Originally Posted by Vyrerus View Post
I disagree heavily. Blue Mage is not broken or a mistake in its current iteration.
Friday will determine that. If no second Limited Job is announced. That is essentially the dev team acknowledging Blue Mage was a failure. Or the system itself at the very least. FFXIV is notorious for clinging to content or concepts. For them to abandon what was advertised as a major piece of Fanfest only two years prior would speak volumes to the lackluster reception.

With that said, a decent amount of fault lies on the dev team for their horrendous presentation of Blue Mage and the Limited Job system. Not only was announcing at directly after the Datacenter split a bad idea, but to release what was little more than a beta only served to strengthen the negative opinions people already had. We were told Blue Mage was limited due to its sheer imbalance and overpowered gameplay yet its 4.5 release showed the exact opposite. Having no worthwhile tank skills and being weaker than every DPS job at 50, it basically could do nothing "solo" except heal to full. They promptly ignored it for nearly a year. Hence why despite some respectable changes, people still despise the overall concept. I'm reminded of Heavensward Astro and how the dev team ultimately broke the job completely in a desperate plea for players to give it a second chance after they messed up so badly. Blue Mage kinda had its second chance but doesn't look to have the turnaround Astro did.