Limited Jobs Limit Potential

[Allegor]

Is there anyone even playing BLU anymore? like, serious question. Even the carnival guy in Ul'dah is rather lonely every time I pass by. If that's the future of what a limited job is I'd rather they make them a full job or don't bother at all, but that's just my opinion.
Also, BLU is nowhere near as broken as they feared it would be, if anything, it's horribly underpowered. With a little tweaks here and there it could be a normal ranged caster by 6.0, who knows.

[BubblyBoar]

My soul still hurts from what they did to my beloved BLU. I do not wish that on any other job.

[grinkdaboy]

there's always a way to make things work. yoship just chose the hard way

[Auryan]

I don't know, the idea of turning jobs that were otherwise not going to be added into the game as side content is pretty clever. The execution needs some work, but for a seedling of a new concept...not bad. I had fun with BLU, even in its current early awkward phase. I even still use it to mess around with FATES and low level WT dungeons and in between working on my zodiac weapons.

All it needs is more fleshing out and more goals to reach. I kind of like the idea of it having to work on making its own relic weapon and gear. I would love it if BLU gets its own playground in the New World. A Eureka-like area that only it (and other limited jobs) can enter. And for people that hate BLU and Eureka, that must be quite a scary thought.

And why wouldn't BST work as a limited job? Give it a Monster Bank like the one in Tactics Advanced to store all of your pets, a monster journal to record all of its beast interactions and a whip (I'm fine with dual-wielding axes too), and viola! A loner adventurer that spends all of their time studying, befriending and raising beasts. And while they're taking inspiration from TA, they can honor the symbiotic relationship it and BLU had in that game. Learning spells and taming beasts together.

[Cidel]

I'm not completely averse to Beastmaster being a limited job if the content they made for it was akin to a Pokemon-type/style content (like how many hoped Verminion would be) or even a turn-based strategy like Tactics. Given their poor handling of a pet DPS in SMN, I couldn't imagine them getting a normal Beastmaster job right. That is to say, I'd hope they put actual effort into making a side content limited job like Beastmaster enjoyable, totally unlike that boring auto-attack mess Pankration from FFXI.

[Jandor]

I'm not completely averse to Beastmaster being a limited job if the content they made for it was akin to a Pokemon-type/style content (like how many hoped Verminion would be) or even a turn-based strategy like Tactics.

I mean, if Beastmaster was essentially a full FF themed pokemon game inside FFXIV I'd be ok with it being limited.

But it's not going to be that, it'll be a SMN that can't queue with 50 useless pets and 2 or 3 decent ones.

BLU has the least consistent identity of any FF job other that the fact it uses monster attacks, so a BLU DOW could have been really interesting, melee attacks to build a blu magic meter to then cast or somethin

Reverse RDM with monster attacks, the job we'll never get

[Seraphor]

But it's not going to be that, it'll be a SMN that can't queue with 50 useless pets and 2 or 3 decent ones.

Still sounds better than SMN 2.0 with only 3 monsters and only 1 that's any good.

[Jandor]

Still sounds better than SMN 2.0.

Does it really? 50+ pointless monsters with which to fight open world mobs from 2 expansions ago. Wooo.

[Seraphor]

Does it really? 50+ pointless monsters with which to fight open world mobs from 2 expansions ago. Wooo.

Yes, it does.
Side content matters as well as core jobs.
SMN 2.0 would be pointless, and good side content is better than no side content.
Limited BST is better than no BST.

For all BLU's drawbacks, it's better than not being in the game at all.

[DumdogsWorld]

While there's always room for improvements on everything, I'm happy with Blue Mage just the way it is.

Thank you, Blue Mage. Thank you for giving me the tools to build an army.



An army of Pudgy Puks.