Quote Originally Posted by technole View Post
Cause that's where the direction is with Blue Mage, it isn't ever going to be normal. These skills were all designed for party and raiding content.

The beauty and difficulty of doing them on blue mage is because the game sees a party of them as all red DPS, and that means any mechanic that was once role-aligned is randomized. Like any party member could get the O4S earthshakers, versus the healers only with a normal comp. Or you can get any gavel mechanic in A8S. This also opens up interpretation of what skills could be best slotted for the instance.

There is different play style because each of the raids you do bring different skills, as you don't take the exact same skills in each one. Like who wants to be the 'DPS tank' to take a swap, buster they need Frog Legs, not everyone does Or one of the DPS mimics has another heal skill in-case the healer gets involved in a mechanic. You need someone with the fish in A8S, or if you go in using Eureka best-in-slot gear you probably need one of the HP raising skills to survive certain mechanics.
Taking different skills =/= having a different playstyle. All of these skills do not change blu's playstlye, you still burst at your 1/2 min window and filler inbetween, all these skills are doing are adding a situational button, it's like saying having your lost actions (not essences) in bozja changes your playstyle, they don't, they are just momentary diversions from your fundamental kit, which we have mentioned before in the case of BLU has all the workings of a normal job. Like thats literally it though as well, blu is essentially a caster dps that has access to "lost actions/essenses" as part of their kit, give ANY job access to their lost actions from bozja and they'd be able to do what blu does, instant kills and all, they even have thier own version of diamondback and BETTER versions of skills like white wind/frog legs. It boggles the mind how people can't see that BLU's rotation currently is anything other than just another caster rotation with lost actions spiced in, and if we were to give that rotation to people as a normal job nobody loses anything.