Quote Originally Posted by Anahlise_Auhn_Giinslai View Post
The other 19 "jobs" in FFXIV need to be similar to this... If we count all deleted action ever removed from the game, the other "jobs" only have 30-60 actions, but if they had a mockery of in-class diversity like Blue Mage...Say.. a Limit of any where from 28-36 actions, then just pick 28 actions and do not attempt to use all 30 to 60 actions...
Still want to complain about "Button Bloat", any way? No person every said that any person is forced to use up to the limit. 28 actions too much for you? You only want 24? then pick 24 actions and only use 24 actions.
At that point, the community with find out the best 28 abilities you should use, and anyone not using those would be forced out of endgame. Then you have the issue of, You didn't bring any AoE, but you now need it for this raid fight, you are screwed. Infact, you would end up with different sets based on what you are going to be playing, a dungeon set, a trail/normal raid set, a savage+ set etc. It would just be a pain to switch between them.

You can say, well, restrict what they can have. Ensure they have some form of AoE, make sure they have at least X amount of mitigation etc. At some point you have to think, we are basically funneling them into this specific direction anyway, might as well just give them everything they need and balance that.

Blue Mage works because it is designed to be flexible between Tank/Healer/DPS, even then though, there are specific spells that you will find the vast majority of BLU uses. Even ignoring that, alot of BLU spells are just copy and paste of each other, just with a different element.

And only picking 24/28 you could have, you just nerfed yourself for no reason.

The way they do it now is the best way to do it to maintain balance and also to keep the ease of balancing.