Please reconsider stance on blue mage

[Velhart]

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.

What is the point if people just make one desired strat and then it becomes that way or the highway? Yoshida said himself it would lead to this. I would like to see Blue Mage as much as the next person, but making one job more complicated to set up than another is not the vision the developers are going for. Also if you decided to make BLU hybrid, it would defeat the purpose of the job system. Job system's intent is to put you to one specific role. People are not going to be thrown into a DF with randoms and ask what the BLU is doing. Also a cruddy situation if people want BLU on healing/tanking and they refuse...DPS only! This is an issue when creating a hybrid for jobs. Inevitable "Set role to tank, then claim you are DPS going in." scenarios for a quick DF party.

That is only just one of many reasons that a traditional BLU will not work in ARR. I do hope BLU does find some way of making it in without rocking the boat, but I guarantee any form it comes in, it will not be the kind of BLU that people are looking for, I can guarantee that. This game is not FFXI nor 1.xx rather if you like it or not, it can't jump off it's rails unless developers decide to take a major shift in the game's concepts with all jobs, which is very unlikely.