Thread: I like BLU a lot after 5.15, but BLU being restricted is making XIV less fun for me

Originally Posted by DBriggs304

BLU is just too overpowered to be a regular class.

i'm pretty sure anyone here or in any other thread can rattle off some REAL easy fixes to the "overpowered" abilities you might list--such as making whitewind potency based, remove 'death'-type spells entirely since everything is already immune to them, make mighty guard/diamondback an aoe party/self defensive buff like SMN's devotion skill and a small shield like BLM's manawall or NIN's shade shift (respectively), most supposedly broken debuffs are already three-and-done-forever and if there isn't perfect party communication all three applications will be blown instantly as several BLUs try to apply it at once and rendering that button effectively wasted on every player who has it for the rest of the fight, the devs have already repeatedly nerfed buffstacking for the "please kill yourself" strategy of selfdestruct/final sting as well as the brush with death debuff and a very long revive spell cooldown, and many of it's stronger abilities require either a limited-application debuff (knife requires stun, drills require petrify, etc etc etc) or you having 7/23 other players that are equally geared, skilled, interested, and have the "correct" spells at gunpoint to try and attempt to go get (such as J kick, the primal spells, etc).

aside from that gimmicry, you refresh your dot, spam your 12 bland flavors of 200 potency cone (of which only three actually matter, those being a physical, astral, and umbral spell since elemental resistance mechanics were removed back in heavensward, a full expansion before BLU was added), weave in your big OGCDs (primal spells+devour) as they come off cooldown, and stack your selfbuffs for your burst windows much like any other "real" dps class