Quote Originally Posted by Chasingstars View Post
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.
That's trusting Square-Enix to juggle all of that without dropping everything, where again we can't be sure how long reborn jobs will actually remain or how BLU already got the cold shoulder because they were "too busy" working on BST.

I would also argue that the work on evolved jobs probably also ate into BLU's update, or how its likely responsible for the long delay on BST. The BLU update and BST addition were both touted as Dawntrail features, but one got cancelled and the other isn't coming out until Dawntrail is practically over, BUT OH BOY THEY SURE WANT US TO KNOW ABOUT THE UPCOMING 23 "NEW" JOB MODES FOR THE NEXT EXPANSION.

So yeah, just one more reason I'm not keen on evolved jobs because its just going to end up another flavor of homogenization for humdrum standard content that's negatively impacted the only two jobs that actually feel unique, with modes built specifically for them and their personal mechanics. I'd rather they had spent all that time on evolved jobs giving the standard 21-23 jobs their own carnivals and crucibles instead.