Puppetmaster

[aveyond-dreams]

Learning blue mage though quests just so it can fit in this homogenized role that the other basic, boring rotation jobs have?

Blue is made to be gimmicky , random, use every spell it knows and be unbalanced. If blue mage was shoehorn into a regular job, it wouldn't be a blue mage but a boring generic caster

Also its odd that red mages in other ff games get cure really early but ffxiv gets cure very late in game

Red mage is fun but pressing the same boring rotation over and over again isn't

But i guess thats why ffxiv is a theme park mmo

Every other job is built off pressing the same "boring" rotation over and over again. That is literally the point. This is a group game. It is not a solo game. Even Blue Mage has a meta rotation, though I suppose one has the option to be *unique* and ignore it, likely to the rest of the party's detriment. What you have in Blue Mage is the illusion of choice, just like in WoW, where they give you a lot of options but at the end of the day there is one better way to optimize your character.

And yes, a Blue Mage regular job would have been used exponentially used more by the general playerbase because Blue Mage -the minigame- is built off of fomo. You have 2 weeks to learn the latest spells. After that? Good luck. Everyone else will have already moved on. Then you can only use them in carnival fights (which they are running out of ideas for) or moogle events. To get rewards a huge chunk of people already own.

Gacha limited time events last longer than Blue Mage updates. We do not need to shackle another job to a system that proves just how ephemeral it is time and time again.