See, I've always been in the camp that's okay with BLU, likely because I have no investment in maining it in current expansion content. It's a product of the FF mainline games I've played, but I've never categorized BLU as a "core" job. It's always been the weird joke class that has like 30 spells you classify as stupid, useless, or unbelievably niche, plus a solid 4-5 that are either OP as hell or exploitable in a way that makes your BLU the star of doing off-kilter shit like beating endgame bosses at level 1.

While XIV's BLU plays that a little TOO safe for how weird BLU gets in other titles, that's exactly what I see them going for in XIV. I wish they'd take it as an opportunity to go even more off the wall with the abilities since it's not in "relevant" content. I see too much of a monkey's paw in asking for BLU to be made a "real" job. First, I mislike the implication that only current patch, current expansion content is "real"; that way lies reclearing your four raids for the week and logging off like this is WoW. XIV needs no more encouragement in that direction. Second, do we *really* need another job homogenized into a 2 minute rotation? Would it truly give people their jollies to spit BLU fish and cartoon anvils at <current raid tier> for two hours a week and log off again? Yes is not a wrong answer to that question, but it's definitely not mine.