Please reconsider stance on blue mage

[Kerii]

Just a bit of a guess... BLUM would arc off Conjurer and sub Thaumaturge. The "logic" would be that by understanding all of the elements and aspects of nature you are able to learn skills from monsters. Rather than roaming the world and fighting monsters you'd likely have a fixed set of instances where "Iconic" monsters would be fought allowing you to learn a handful of moves that would end up a sort of "Charm and Mimic" role. This would be a nice take on the style as it would work in context of the game and make sense from a lore perspective.

(I'm sorry if I'm late here, or reiterating things that have already been said.)

(This isn't exactly on topic, but REDM would have to work slightly differently from the classical design as well. That is, they'd come from Thaumaturge and be more focused on reducing the destructive aspects of black magic. Turning to conjury for it's understanding of the elements (sub job) they'd learn to use both sets of skills (not all), at the cost of losing the most powerful skills of both jobs. These are just guesses based on how /all the other jobs/ currently work and the idea that they need to be simple enough to play, but practical enough that they won't overpower other roles.)