So...About Blue Mage

[aveyond-dreams]

It was mentioned to be updated sometime during EW. Not being given a specific date of release =/= dumped to the wayside. If so, I guess the anticipated updates to the Golden Saucer should also be considered as an afterthought. Because it's either 6.4 or 6.5 for that.
The barrier entry is relatively low? I mean, all you need is to complete 2.0 and with the most recent update, you can very easily solo most of the spells and level to max in no time. Other goals require more time and effort, go figure.

Male Viera and BLU are completely different topics. Are you for real? One is a race made for purely aesthetic reasons and BLU is a piece of side content. Next you'll compare Hrothgar hairstyles with the addition of a 2nd Ultimate or something.

Viera and Hrothgar hairs were never given specific release timeframes. Logic follows that Blue Mage falling in line with this will not bode well for the future of limited job content. Gold Saucer, unlike Blue Mage, doesn't have an absurd barrier to entry and just recently got updated with new rewards. People are "ok" with it and Gold Saucer content isn't nearly as controversial as this situation is.

Blue Mage's levelling meta has always been getting power-leveled by another player to max, the "solo" experience for Blue Mage by comparison is little more than a lengthy boring grind. It isn't fun. Not an overworld that has no danger like this one does. This isn't FFXI where you can get away with this sort of thing. Other goals in this game aren't as boring to do and thus you see more of the playerbase doing those instead of wasting time on Blue Mage.

I bring up the male Viera thing specifically because it shows that continued community efforts over time result in tangible change. Perhaps if we didn't have so many people willing to rush to SE's defense on Blue Mage, it would have been a full job half-way into Shadowbringers instead of being pushed down to one of the lowest priorities. Now Blue Mages will have to wait for the Hrothgar hair person to find time in their schedule to work on something for Blue Mage.

As a form of content, limited jobs feel like they would be taxing to work on and try to keep innovating for. Blue Mages to my knowledge got less and less carnival fights per patch, that and less spells. Either resources are strained, or the people who work on this would rather be working on something else given the chance. That is the impression that I am getting, and why I want to see this job become a full job. And yeah, at this point I'd much rather see Hrothgar hairs be worked on or get an extra Ultimate than see updates to content that seems to be going nowhere.

I think it's odd to talk about BLU becoming a full job. It already is. It stands on its own and does everything and more than other jobs. Pushing for it to fit into all the typical daily activities and content is pushing it to a more plain and nerfed status. All the fun spells would surely be stripped in that situation: Ultravibration, Death, Missile, Doom, etc. Primal spells would likely get cut for stepping on SMN toes. Be careful what you wish for.

So be it. As it stands now having all the overpowered spells in the world and nothing to use them in makes the job completely useless outside of grinding for Allied Seals. Blue Mage should not have ever had those primal spells-they should have been Summoner abilities from the start but thanks to 8 years of trying to twist SMN into a warlock it allowed Blue Mage to temporarily fill that niche until the 6.0 rework brought Summoner back to reality. I'm good with wishing for full job BLU. Better than whatever this is.