Blue Carnival

[LilimoLimomo]

Once again here posting as to why blue's story line is gated behind doing a boss in Carnival. All other classes and jobs do not have such silliness and considering it is a limited job as well why do that, all you do Square is upset people who just want to see the story

I think part of what you need to accept is that Blue Mage is a totally different game compared to other classes. You can want it to be like other classes, but the reality is that it's not. It has special rules for leveling, learning abilities, instances, level cap, PvP, and quest progression. I understand wanting it to work more similarly to other classes, but don't let that blind you to the fact that it's thoroughly distinct from every other class in the game.

And like other game content, you can't progress the story unless you do the associated content. Eden requires raids, Eureka requires Baldesion Arsenal, and the Fisher class requires catching specific quest fish. And if you want to experience the Blue Mage story, you're going to need to farm some moves and do the Carnival.

For what it's worth, I don't like farming moves and I don't enjoy the Carnival, so I haven't progressed BLU's story past 50. I've accepted that if I want to experience the story, that requires doing the Carnival. And I've decided not to do the Carnival, so I understand that I won't get the story.

and don't even get me started on the difficulty of some of the things in carnival for older and/or disabled people to get thru. Why not have an easy mode option

Can you explain this a bit more? I didn't like the Carnival, but I don't recall it having anything that seemed like an ability concern. I'd be curious to hear about what aspects can cause trouble and how.

Regardless, an easy mode sounds fine; they do offer that for other solo instanced content so it doesn't seem like an unreasonable request.