It should be a long-term goal to make Blue Mage a real job

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Originally Posted by Shurrikhan

So, because it, effectively, breaks content -- often making it impossible for other jobs to participate (to the point of silver or better rewards)?

Don't get me wrong, FATEs as presently designed kinda suck, and getting through them faster is quite the personal benefit, but if an unfair advantage is the primary thing going for a given toolkit...

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Its one of those things IMO, I can't stand FATES most of the time and BLUE helps dealing with that little problem when I want to try to get something.

If FATES were honestly fun then yes I would call Blue Mage to be nerfed.

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Originally Posted by Bright-Flower

You could make blu as a normal job, sure. But that would mean giving it a standard set rotation/toolkit and a job gauge and making it play by the same rules as every other job. It could be done. But I think it's good to have side content like limited jobs. Not everything has to be about the loot treadmill, I think having some things like this are good for the game.

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You're needlessly limiting yourself there. Who's to say you can't implement BLU as a caster DPS but also have content like the Masked Carnivale? Segregating a job like a leper and trying to present side-content for it as a consolation prize isn't a good look. And that's on top of having BLU fans getting to see their favorite job be treated as a nonfactor in-world.

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And as a normal job they'd be limited to leveling up and the occasional job quest. The LORE of the job could be tied to studying monsters and mimicing them but the actual collection aspect would be missing as a normal job.

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That's a pretty big assumption. As I mentioned, you could have just given it the additional task of learning spells out in the world while still having designed it within the caster DPS paradigm. If quests have to be used, limit it only to milestone/big spells that would be unreasonable for a solo player to otherwise get (like learning a skill from a behemoth). It isn't an all-or-nothing deal, even if it seems the devs treat things as such.