Truer words have never been spoken.
More seriously, from what I can gather from this google translation the main points:
- Blue Mage Combos aren't good because their conditions are so weak (Relying on status effects that many things are immune to)
- Blue Mage has historically been categorized by gaining power by learning strong Blue Magic spells, but there aren't any except 1000 Needles during leveling.
- If they intend to release all the OP spells at level 60/70 it will be just an excuse to cover the fact that they botched the implementation of BLU.
- There is the strange implementation where it's supposed to be a Solo Job that is not suitable for Parties, but then a lot of is actual gameplay is pushing you into parties.
- It should be given a direction (Solo only or Party play) and then balanced accordingly. I.e. Make it balanced for normal Raids or jack up its power and let it solo everything.
- I believe there's a section talking about getting carried through the EX trials trying, in vain, to learn the Primal skills...
- In an effort to prevent an unbalance in the game, it seems that they removed from the main game all the things that would cause an imbalance (Such as the insta-kill skills which don't work on many things) while leaving behind just stuff that would work fine with the main game (The fact that it is pretty much a normal class)
- Blue cannot use Squadrons to go learn the spells they need from various dungeons for... Reasons...
- After completing the Masked Carnivale, the job feels empty and boring because there's nothing else to do with it.
- There is no major difference between BLU and other jobs to justify it being so limited.
- Any class could have being given Masked Carnivale style solo content.
- Possibly a comment about how this is a poor precedent for Limited Jobs in the future.
One of the points that really stood out to me, was the one about how any class could have gotten a Masked Carnivale type arena.
Heck, I remember one of the best arena mini-games I've ever played, which was the one in the Colosseum in Kingdom Hearts 1. That place was FANTASTIC and there's no reason why something similar couldn't have been implemented that would have worked on other jobs.
If you think about it, there's no reason they couldn't have also made that style of content that could work with parties too.



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