Good call. Sycrus it is than, thanks.
Yeah just like the other steps, it's generally much better outside, although for the other 2 steps you could farm memories at a decent pace inside IF you made a cluster party(the droprate from fates was absolute ass, I didn't even get 20/20/20 farming from 1 to 15).
Sucks you can't queue with DF with BLU though, since current BLU is overpowered as fuck compared to normal classes in synced content so it'd be perfect for these old alliance raids. My BLU at 70 unsynced is almost as strong as my 80 near max ilvl chars, shit's pretty wild.
This BLU update was great, not only did they add a fair bit of power again to the class(new primal oGCDs and some new GCDs that do ~400potency with cooldowns), they also added cool solo tools, first for leveling/doing FATEs you get Choco Meteor, a spammable aoe that does 300potency if you have your chocobo with you but then the most surprising one, Basic Instinct, which grants perma sprint speed(including in combat), 100%more damage and healing potency and ignore the Mighty Guard damage reduction penalty(so you get the defense for free) as long as you're solo in group content(dungeons, raids, trials and alliance).
That shit's great for soloing old content, makes BLU actually much better than most other classes. You can literally one shot Twintania or Nael as well as several of the old primals with a propped up Final Sting and a crit(and you can one shot them if you soften them up a bit first), so you literally skip the whole fight and don't have to suffer some of the longer breaks. I farmed Nael in 15secs and Twin in 30(have to run to the fight first) for example, which is super cool and feel like what BLU should have been from the start. You can also solo synced dungeons if you want to learn spells on your own, a few might be undoable due to multi player forced mechanics, but most work just fine. I did Ala Mhigo solo to test(in case the mount dropped) and it only took 26mins solo, which is a very reasonable time, similar to Trust times.
Meanwhile BLU groups are busted as fuck, you can more or less instant death every trash pack with the new Ultravibration(besides Temple of the Fist which is the one dungeon where everything is immune to every fucking status for some reason), so dungeon clears take like 7-8mins for the log, very easy to complete everything.
Now at least the restrictions make sense, the class is very strong and clowns the old content. Just wish they let us use it in Eureka, would make farming more relics and shit a lot less annyoing. Having a special solo only version of potd/hoh for BLU would be great too, would get people interested in soloing these on normal classes. Although BLU would absolutely tear these apart(especially since there's now a spell that does 500potency vs undead, so those undead floors would fucking melt).
