Quote Originally Posted by Dale View Post
I'm not that familiar with Blue Mage (tried to level it but lost interest and none of my friends play it regularly) so I'll debate your post in this way:

Can Blue Mage phalanx and refresh II party members with their blue magic? If not, then that might be your answer. If they can, then I think you make a good point.

And I have no beef with people saying Enspell IIs need to be revamped. My issue is when people call them useless. Because they aren't. At least not in my opinion. Because I use them and like them.

All that being said though, I do agree with you that there isn't a need to raise Blue Mage sword skill to an A+. It should stay at A. No Mage should have the highest rank available in a melee weapon in my opinion.
This is correct. Blu has a lot of good support spells but most (aside from diamondhide) can be uses on other party members. We get refresh and haste but we can only use it on ourselves. We also cannot have all spells set at once, where rdm has access to their entire spell pool. None of our traits are native. They all depend on our spell line up. Bottom line is rdm and blu have many of differences. Although they are both hybrids mages, they have many differences within the jobs themselves as far as what they are able to do and how they do it. Blu also relies on skillchains for dmg out put. Though I respect your opinion that their skill should remain at A, I have to disagree. Blu is in the frontline much more then rdm, and blu can use all the acc they can get to build tp for skillchains. Though if SE did ever decide to raise rdm's sword skills to A+, I would not be against it in the slightest. I just don't think it would be as useful to rdm as it is for blu.