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    Quote Originally Posted by Shurrikhan View Post
    so long as I don't have to lose yet another favorite job concept to be relegated to a damned mini-game.
    That mindset is exactly the issue: you talk about "losing" jobs to becoming Limited Jobs, when the purpose and reality of Limited Jobs is that we're lucky to see those jobs represented at all.

    As I said before, the fact that they've tried and failed to implement Chemist as a healer twice in a row now shows that some jobs simply aren't congruous with 14's existing systems. Evidently in the case of BLU, the devs agreed that it simply wouldn't do as a full job, and they created Limited Jobs as a compromise from scrapping one of their more popular asks entirely.
    "But XI did it!" XI is a completely different game. What worked in one (like spamming debuffs on a boss, or having 6-8 versions of a buff for each element) isn't necessarily plausible in the other, and no job in 14 has ever been lifted 1:1 from XI.

    Which is why I take such issue with the conceit involved in people in this thread complaining that they'd rather BLU hadn't been implemented at all. The ones who try to have their cake and eat it too, claiming to be on the side of BLU fans while also advocating removing the consolation specifically provided for BLU fans. Claiming it's an obstacle to something that was dead in the water well before it existed.
    Because yes, the alternative was for BLU fans to simply die begging.

    So I will say again, if the devs manage to find a way to implement BST in a manner that satisfies both them and the players without making it a "damned mini-game", fine -- I'm not arguing for them to put "filling the next Limited Job slot" before trying to find a way to make its candidates Full Jobs. The primary reason BST even comes up in these discussions is purely for the beast-taming aspect, which the devs may simply eschew for practical reasons.
    Frankly, I wouldn't be too shocked if the next highest candidate on their list was CHM instead now, precisely for the twice failure to make a Mix system before. Maybe some ungodly healer who brews completely overpowered buffs with a chance to blow up in their face and kill them or something.

    The umbrage I take is with people coming out of the woodwork to spit venom when the words "Limited Job" even make an appearance on the page, as if a BLU personally pulled the life support on their grandparents.
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    Last edited by Archwizard; 11-01-2021 at 10:42 PM.