Please reconsider stance on blue mage

[Tupsi]

Exact same system...?

The way Blue Mage worked you had to pick and choose your skills which also granted certain traits with certain combinations - In ARR you have to pick your cross-class skills you want to use, it uses the same system. In XIV 1.0 you had a list of skills you wanted to use and set it to your hotbar, so 1.x > ARR is an evolution of the same system Blue Mage in XI uses. That's what I mean.

As for "shifting between roles", no BLU in ANY FF game ever did that

99 Blue Mage as well - I've been a healer, DD and Tank in quite a lot of content, so maybe you never did it, but I sure as heck have And they did shift roles, their primary design was a mage that does damage, but due to skills like Mighty Guard and White Wind you almost never needed a healer if you were properly prepared for some encounters. That's what I mean with that.