I am extremely disappointed to hear about further limitations to blue mage. No squadron? No duty roulette? No deep dungeon? These were things that I was begrudingly willing to accept. Being locked out of the main story of the game however, is not acceptable.

Whoever made this decision has shown they are completely out of touch with what players actually want. From what we've seen in trailers so far, Blue Mage is nowhere near the overpowered class they make it out to be. It seems as if its on the same power level as most other jobs except a few added gimmicks such as the learning system and several powerful spells that could easily have been nerfed or altered to fit into parties while still retaining the core learning system. I was very excited to have a class to play through the main story solo, especially with the New Game + feature coming soon, but this contradicts that.

I see no point in playing as FFXIV's Blue Mage in its current state. This "limited job" concept has been executed in the most restricting, unfun way possible and no other jobs should be subject to such treatment. Players want full fledged jobs that work not only in regular party settings, but simply for the sake of progressing the main story as well. What was supposed to be the highlight of this patch for me has completely fallen short of my expectations. What's next? Vieras being gender locked to females only? Dancers who are restricted to being a rhythm mini game in Gold Saucer? It certainly wouldn't surprise me seeing as now they've removed Time of My Life.

Overall, I'm just very sad that this hasn't turned out at all like I thought it would. Thank you for reading my mini rant