So this umbrella update is something I have wanted to see for some time. I have always felt that more glam options for blue should be added to content so we blue mages can go and get them for our characters. The problem is I expected that to be in content I could well... do as a blue mage. Like if this was a reward for doing the savages that would at least be a nice tangible reward I achieved on blue. If I earned the upgrade mat by doing prime targets or purchasing with seals that would be great. I want to see more blue mage options appear in content. I want boss weapons and savage weapons for blue. I want ult and criterion sets for blue. I want content and thing to do as blue. So if you add those things I want but you make me require a non blue job to get them then it feels like the monkey paw has curled rather than the great reward it should feel like.
It really all feeds into the supreme lack of care the 80 blue update seems to have. We are a class so neglected and mistreated that the fanbase was willing and even excited at the thought of receiving a mount every OTHER expansion. We already get the least amount options for content and glam, and we only receive a content once an expansion and we were so starved that every alternating expansion update a mount seemed like an exciting prospect. Whereas something like Island Sanctuary got how many since its been introduced? One less there for one for blue just wasn't feasible? Really?
And while the lack of a mount killed so much interest in the 80 update for new potential blues the thing that hurt me the most was Seat of Sacrifice. This was a major MSQ trial and it was deemed acceptable to release without a log entry and extreme achievement. That was so not ok. First of all the future implications for that are abysmal. Now anytime there is a cinematic moment where we break our limits I can't think how the neat the spectacle is I can only think well this is another thing they won't bother to make blue be able to do. Second the reason we blue mages except being the second class citizens in XIV is because of how fun it is. A big reason for that fun comes in the form of the role mechanics being completely random. It changes the fights into remixed versions for no extra dev time. It is so fun and satisfying even on content that is years old. And we don't get to have that experience with one of the biggest fan favorite trials. Like if nothing else blue mages should be able to do all the msq instances and while I suppose we can still queue into the instance the biggest part of the blue mage experience, the xenolocking, we can't enjoy for this trial. I mean you can't be bothered to put a diamond back check for lb3? Is it any wonder blue mages feel this update is a huge disappointment when even the bare minimum for a blue update can't be met?
And if that wasn't bad enough still we are fully locked out of Memoria? Why? The connection to Bozja? If so that's exceedingly dumb. Even if you didn't give us an achievement to keep it in line with Odin and Rathalos the option for those who wanted to tackle it for fun could have still been on the table. You didn't even let us have the option. There was no need. The lack of achievement would have killed 95% of the interest for blue mages to go into the instance anyways. It just further makes us feel we are unwanted by the development staff.
Man I love this class I really do. Whether by accident or miracle the XIV team stumbled on to a recipe that works and made for the most fun class in the game with blue mage. And I wanted another banger update like we got with HW and SB content. But instead it just feels like the class is an obligation the dev team wants to be rid of. In the future am I still going to be told that my class shouldn't have access to Ultimates. Am I going to be excluded from V&C dungeons? It is going to be further tossed aside to focus on the new limited job? Are the devs going to keep putting the least amount of effort into the one update an expansion I look forward to the most? I don't know. I hope not. I hope the class I have invested so much time into starts seeing some improvements in the way its updated. And the first step is let me earn the cool blue mage staff on my freaking blue mage.