Useless spells

[Dale]

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.

It's more philosophical from my standpoint. Because I just think the A+ ranks should be reserved for the straight up melee classes rather than Mages. I do think Blue Mages should have a higher sword skill than Red Mages though, especially now that you have confirmed they cannot cast most of their support spells on other party members.