The Limitation Dilemma: Why Final Fantasy 14's Limited Job was a Mistake

[Deceptus]

"BLU could never be a normal Job! It's SO overpowered!"

??? No, it's not. It's utterly mundane and full of bizarre and annoying limitations.

This weird idea that BLU is abnormally powerful is bordering on actual dictionary-definition gaslighting. You could just unsync the content with any normal Job and be dramatically more "overpowered".

Tanking with BLU is literally underpowered, and approximately as fun as driving bamboo under your fingernails.

"But I can KO trash mobs super fast!" Uhhhh you could also just Unsync it and do the same thing, without a 2-minute cooldown.

BLU is "overpowered" when you arbitrarily decide to break your own kneecaps by entering content Synced. And why do you do that? Because BLU tells you to. "I'm overpowered when I'm underpowered because I decided to be" — amazing.

And what "overpowered" things that BLU can actually do to "break" fights are balanced out by the fact that BLU is so underwhelming that it literally has to do those "overpowered" things just to clear content at all.

"BLU has so many cool options! No other Job could ever be like this!"

Yeah I guess if you're just messing around "freestyling" and shooting your friends with Malediction of Water, sure.

If you're actually seriously trying to get things done as BLU, then you just cram all your bloated, generic Primal/Namazu burst damage actions into your overflowing bar slots until you end up with the same boring 2-minute burst cycle as everyone else — except your filler in-between is even more mind-numbing, and sometimes you have to hold burst, because your burst is full of weird and fragile gimmicks that make SB Machinist seem user-friendly.

Then you swap out your 2 or 3 remaining slots for some mundane bonuses or "utility" that would probably just be Role Actions on a normal Job.

Wow, amazing, no other Job could ever be like every other Job, except with extra, convoluted, fake-decision steps along the way.

100% accurate IMHO and this is mostly my take on it as well.

It's not as overpowered as others think because of how badly it is designed and most of it's strongest "gimmick" attacks don't work on bosses (where the harder BLU content is)

Who needs a dedicated tank, or healer when we can have a job that can do most of everything?

We already have that job, it's called a Warrior.

[Atelier-Bagur]

We already have that job, it's called a Warrior.

Oh heck yeah, but do we really need to break the system even more?