Quote Originally Posted by Aluja89 View Post
Of course it is bad faith. Since when does Thunder apply a DOT? Since when does Blizzard recover mana? These are inherent to only FFXIV, just like XIV's BLU should be.

If it's not bad faith, it's dumb logic.
It's not bad faith or dumb logic. Blue Magic is all about learning spells that monsters use and then throwing it back against them. Monster abilities work outside of what is considered normal, and has and will break the normal rules of a FF game. FF5 alone had numerous ways to where BLU could just completely destroy the difficulty, and turn very hard enemies into jokes, something that every iteration of FF since then has had, at least in spirit. Even Quistis in FF8 had Degenerator, which instantly killed any non-boss enemy in the game. The job has always been quirky and simultaneously weak and powerful at the same time for that reason. Conforming it to a normal caster job is completely counter to the spirit of BLU, and at that point it's not a Blue Mage anymore.

That is the point I'm making. BLU can never work within the normal rules of FFXIV because it has NEVER worked within the normal rules of a FF game. It has always been an outlier.