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    Quote Originally Posted by Aidorouge View Post
    That's assuming evolved works the way we assume versus what it actually ends up as, where to me it just sounds like more of the same "simple jobs/difficult fights" design we've had for ages.

    There's also the issue of how long they bother to keep reborn jobs around, and I'd rather limited BLU didn't join them on the chopping block and something like the proposed evolved kit Chasingstars posted became the only option.

    And it's not even like Square-Enix "promised" a BLU update in Evercold, they only told us "we'll try again" so it already feels like its exclusive content is endangered between a new limited job and them juggling 40+ reborn and evolved jobs.
    Key point, you'd still have the reborn version of blue mage anyway, even if it never got evolved. Just like how dragoon would now have two versions. And that we already know that the reborn vs evolved version share some similarities but they are difference. Like how Bard reborn vs evolved function differently in terms of their songs while coexisting, that a mage's ballad for reborn is not like a mage's ballad for evolved. And the thing is, blue mage would still have the opportunity to grow as its reborn version as its already far different compared to any other job because of spell collection and the assignment of spells equipped.

    Evolved is just the hybrid version of pve and pvp versions of jobs as so far shown with some new stuff included. Which as I mentioned before, blue mage never got a pvp version. Like for ninja for example, it will have its reborn, its evolved, and its pvp versions with different potencies and different abilities. Which is three versions. And the pvp one already exists, meaning technically on the high end there would be 65 jobs and their abilities to remember.

    EDIT: Honestly all this talk reminds me of the tabletop game Pathfinder 1st edition. Where Summoner was really strong, and so when given its unchained version, it was actually more reasonable compared to its "unchained" version while every other class that got an unchained version had potentially better stuff compared to their "chained" counterparts. So with blue it goes from limited to "non-limited" but being more limited in its spell capacity.
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    Last edited by Chasingstars; 04-29-2026 at 08:12 AM.