Quote Originally Posted by Blueyes View Post
Honestly, I believe the only reason why there are spells with such an abysmal learn rate is to slow down progression. If Blue Mage had access to all content, they could scrap the RNG entirely because there's actual content for it to do after collecting all of its spells. But since there is so little for Blue Mage to do, SE has intentionally given spells a low chance of being learned purely for the sake of keeping Blue Mage occupied when there's nothing else to do.
We did over 80 Garuda runs to learn feather rain. After 5 normals runs I did go on my 70 job to burst thought that rng fest. Took still over 3 hours