Hybrid Classes/Jobs

[Shougun]

Limited jobs brings a fresh enjoyment to stale jobs that are the holy Trinity

It literally supports the holy trinity through one of it's own actions though. . . Also diamond back is not as good as a tank LB since tank LBs don't stun you for 10 seconds.

Man. . lol. Blue gets me so salty, even people who like it I can't help but think "should have been better". At least with housing I feel like it makes sense how we got here with the whole 1.0 rush into 2.0, 'it'll be fine just for FC' 'oh my god our game is so popular' (still think it's not best suited for the type of game FFXIV is, and that even people who like having neighbors could have been satisfied with instanced neighbors, most of them at least).

I mean I get perhaps that it's different so that's nice, sometimes different is all people really needed. . but I still find it hard to actually work through the logic as a set of rules (not opinions) and end with the result "nice job" (building a set of rules from desires/statements and then following those through- many stemming from SE's initial directives which seem to only be partially true/followed). The job literally supports the holy trinity through mimicry, a system you have to use if you want to do the PF content well- it's gimmicks are so short too, like spamming missile as peak ground breaking gimmick gameplay. Made worse if people are in it for the gimmicks, and making one of the reasons they told us blue had to be this way, by the fact they've nerfed/removed some of the gimmicks of blue mage spells for the sake of PF.

SE: we're going to make blue a real blue, by not. . We've decided to not actually do the real versions of spells like fire angon, or angel whisper, we need to balance it even though we said we're not making to a normal job because of balance. Me: 11/10 take all my salt. Not that I even believe the purpose should be to make 1:1 monster spells, I think fun should have been #1 priority, especially if you were going to say 'who cares about balance' route to excuse not spending full resources to avoid it being a real job, and in that I feel they didn't do as good as they could have.

Also red mage is great, going to deny that red mage is weakest I would argue in parallel at least to some variants (has support, offense, both black and white magic, melee, and fast casting). Loads of people feel greatly empowered by using their substantial vercure potency or chain raising, and the damage while not the highest is entirely functional for all content. They're also pretty great at soloing which carries some of their FFXI vibes forward for those who played that one. Of course it lost a load of support skills in comparison to that other game, so that might have felt bad, but having played both and not particularly being a crazy red mage fan I think FFXIV's is quite good and fun.

I note the fan boy part because sometimes your opinion can shift and become more particular if you're a fan, like I 'was' a fan of blue mage, I really dislike what happened here. In the sense that under SE's reasons I think they didn't do a great job, in most other player's reasons I don't think it was that great, and in my own especially. Adding the word reason and not opinion because if someone says "I like it for X over Y" you can then use that logical basis and compare- I often find that either the logic is inconsistently applied and not really either solid or at least not the root actual logic that hides beneath (I believe people if they say they like it but sometimes the reasons seem flawed, and really what most often seems to be the root and amount to was 'it was different' which is not a high bar), or while I can see why someone might like it I can also feel it hardly did it in a stellar way ("I wanted more PF content and a reason to do old stuff", sure- I believe they could have done that better, both with or without having to use blue). I feel bad sometimes talking about blue mage, hopefully if anything thing gets translated it gets smoothed out, I've no intention to hurt who ever made the job.. but my disappoint of the job from every angle I look at it is strong. To the point I've leveled and enjoyed every job in FFXIV except blue mage, one of the few jobs I was actually looking forward to, and which is one of the easiest to level, and I still feel like 'why bother, it's just not that good- maybe when I'm bored I'll do it for the achievement points'.