Quote Originally Posted by LineageRazor View Post
It's worth pointing out that pretty much ALL of your observations about BLU depend on design decisions that do not actually need to be made.
Again, read previous posts I made on explaining how we can both have a unique, broken job and use it while balanced in Duty Finder/current content. You can try to push for crippling Blue Mages all you want, but that's just stupid when the world is not just black and white and there are many shades of gray in-between. Telling a person that knows how to "fix" the problem without mutilating the job that it is possible to mutilate it to make it work is as effective as telling a doctor that can a stomach cancer that he can just cut out the stomach and be done with it.

Quote Originally Posted by LineageRazor View Post
YoshiP, though, was apparently stuck in this mental vision of what BLU MUST be, which was pretty much incompatible with the game, and rather than tailor his image of the job to fit the game(...)
So...what gives you the right to complain about how he did it when you are doing the same thing?! You are stuck in this mental vision that this is how Blue Mage is and that they won't even bother looking at making it playable. Then you try to "tailor" the job to fit what you want, completely ignoring the wishes of the thousands of people that will enjoy it as it is planned now, but would be "meh" at best if it was changed as you want. And it wasn't even released yet.

The developers at least tried, put work into it. They listened to the other side. You are completely ignoring everything that does not fit your agenda, disrespecting their work and by extension disrespecting other players that like it. And all you do in turn is think of the most basic ways to cripple it completely ignoring everything and everyone else. Anyone can make a crap game with crap skills and crap mechanics. But a good game, good skills and good mechanics require compromises. Instead of trying to turn a Blue Mage into Black/Red Mage V2 with a different skin, at least put in that extra effort to think of something that will not just shift the "victims" of this decision to the ones that LIKE this Blue Mage.