BLU & RNG

[Kalise]

After spending 5 hours farming Ramuh alone before learning the spell and hours farming ruda and iffy with no luck on my other char, I am retiring blu. The sheer amount of work to learn spells does not equal the lack of reward from the carnival. Working for spells is fine. Working this hard for spells that just get you a title on a job that you can do nothing else with is not worth it imo.

I feel this will be a major issue for BLU going forwards.

Like, right now, it's not so bad. BLU is brand new so everyone's playing it because it's new and different. Though, soon people will get burnt out on grinding for EX skills...

But that's okay because in 5.01 there pushing BLU up to level 60 cap and adding in more spells!

Though, how long will that last? Sure, people will pick up BLU again, level it up to 60 and maybe go out and learn all the Overworld skills and maybe do the HW dungeons that have skills in. But then? Presumably we'll be in the same situation, where all that's left to do is farm Trials (Since, even if they don't put any more skills into like HW trials, there'd still be these ARR ones to do...).

Then how long until the next update for BLU? Will there be another update for BLU or will the devs look at the poor playtime on the class and decide it's not worth putting so much effort into a class no-one is playing? What's the end goal for BLU, other than farming EX for some stupid RNG chance to learn spells that you can use... While you're farming for the next EX for a stupid RNG chance spell?

It's one of the core differences between an MMO and the single player FF games. In the single player games, Blue Mage was again, completely optional content, you didn't have to use the BLU characters in your main party and if you did you only needed to go learn a handful of skills that were strong and useful. Then when you finished the game you decided to go hunt all the skills down for completionist sakes.

Here in XIV it seems like collecting the spells is both the means to an end and the end in of itself...

Without getting into yet another "BLU should be a real job!" debate, it almost feels like they could have just made current BLU as some Eureka/PotD hybrid, where you have this secluded open world content where everyone's class is set to BLU and there's a bunch of enemies that you can learn skills from and then inside the world there being a PotD style endless dungeon for people to go through, with even more spells to learn in there (Without all this 5% chance to learn BS... Reminds me of farming mounts in WoW, where the "Common" ones were 1% drop rate. I got them all. After about 5 years of daily/weekly farming for them...). Since, at least you'd have some "End-game" content to use your spells in... Heck, they could make it like the Masked Carnival so even the crappy spells could have a use...

But we'll see... Hopefully their update come the next expansion has some indication of a plan for BLU.