Quote Originally Posted by Jonnycbad View Post
SE has said they have 120 Blue Magic spells developed. We have 50 now. We can presume the remaining 70 will come through the next 20 levels 51-70. Now imagine being level 80 BLU if de-limited you have to pick 24 for your role. You >KNOW< the community will define a set optimal list that if you deviate from will be considered trash, right?
But that's just the nature of the beast.

In any mmorpg setting with a huge number of options, there will always be the optimal setup. This is exactly what happens in WoW: back then you had a ton of talent options to choose, yet there were cookie cutter formula that you had to opt in if you wanted to join certain parties. Nowadays they dumbed down the system, and while still offers options with certain levels of equality, you STILL got the to-go setup to pick up.

It's impossible to achieve perfect balance without homogenizing everything, so in the OP's BLU proposition, I'd say: go for it.

Have your set of skills tailored to the group content, and the rest of the 100+ spells tailored for everything else like Masked Carnivale, solo dungeon challenges, etc.