Limited Jobs Limit Potential

[Derio]

BLU being limited I was supporting the idea at first. Simply because with this they can stay true to the lore of the job. However seeing it being actually out was quite disappointing.

The point of limited was because the job would be very powerful to the point where it could not be included in other content due to its power.

However that is not the case. BLU is an underpowered job and at this point they should have just made it a stand alone job.

I hope beastmaster, puppetmaster and geomancer dont become future limited jobs.

[Burningskull]

Any job I can't do my daily roulettes with is useless to me. I do not like the idea of Limited Jobs. It added nothing to the game except a collectathon for about 1 week.

[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.

[Kazrah]

Best way to see limited jobs is not as neutered jobs, but as player-oriented experiments--mechanical "what if" scenarios--that otherwise wouldn't be able to adequately exist in this game without the job being something that is not true to previous versions like how the players would want. On one hand, it's an interesting approach to playable content, but I do agree with previous posters in this thread that something like a "Limited Job" Roulette should be a thing since it's a lazier way of providing additional content for those jobs.

Also, pro tip: if you don't want a job to be limited, then don't ask for a job from FFXI and whine about how it needs to be exactly like how it was in FFXI. It's just that simple!

[Jandor]

SMN 2.0 would be pointless, and good side content is better than no side content.

Collecting 50 mobs to do outdated content with is literally just BLU 2.0 with monsters instead of spells.

BLU wasn't good side content either.

[Kalise]

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

I disagree.

Instead of implementing a crappy "Job" with limited use, limited content and a limitation on the games scope (Since, there's a lower potential for getting an actual full BLU job)

It would have been possible to have the time and resources spent on "Designing" BLU on some other, likely better, side content that could have had more permeance or enjoyability.

Like, how much time was spent designing BLU? Writing the story, implementing all of the limitations, animating their skills, coding in 0.0001% chance to work insta-death spells, coding everything to be immune to insta-death spells, balancing their INT scaling so they end up being exactly as powerful as any other job... At level 50... With a full set of ilevel 130 Ironworks gear.... etc.

And how much time would it have taken to say... Create a new side-story line such as the Postmoogle or Hildibrand series? Create a new type of end-game content that is maybe something like a "Boss Rush" where 8 man parties will fight a series of dungeon/raid bosses back to back that are scaled up to level 70? A Prestige system where you can play jobs at max level and progress towards "Prestige" levels that allow you to unlock things such as extra AF gear, unique skill animations (I.e. Golden Bahamut)?

Or any number of other things that would have been more entertaining that the current BLU...

All without the disappointment that is a ruined BLU job...

[Burningskull]

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

If I was starving and someone gave me a steak with maggots crawling all over it and said, "Well it's better than not having something to eat isn't it?" I would probably starve.

That's how BLU felt to me. Granted I did level it and collect all the spells... but it still feels like a maggot steak to me.

[Barraind]

Blue Mage was fantastic.

For leveling my chocobo every 30 minutes.

As a class, it accomplishes nothing we were told it would be except limited, so i guess that can count as part of a win? (I gave up before getting all the spells because I didnt want to bother people to do primals with me after they finished relics and I hadnt learned the spells yet).

[Gralna]

If I was starving and someone gave me a steak with maggots crawling all over it and said, "Well it's better than not having something to eat isn't it?" I would probably starve.

But that's just extra protein, and don't write off what you would or wouldn't eat when starving... you'd be surprised what you can stomach.

[Nalien]

If I was starving and someone gave me a steak with maggots crawling all over it and said, "Well it's better than not having something to eat isn't it?" I would probably starve.

That's how BLU felt to me. Granted I did level it and collect all the spells... but it still feels like a maggot steak to me.

I mean... Based on what you just said, you wouldn't starve, because you did in fact eat the maggot steak...