Colour Me Blue - Blue Mage

[Tharian]

I never said it was weighted on how many times it appeared in Final Fantasy history. What I asked was why you felt it was necessary for this game to feature Blue Mage in the first place? I then provided justification for why I felt it wasn't necessary. No where did I say that the justification was a reasonable justification one way or the other for whether or not the Dev's will in fact include the class into the game.

Also, Blue Mage as a distinct Job has appeared in quite a few less than 8 Final Fantasy titles. This is because in Final Fantasy VII there were no distinct Jobs, only Materia that granted abilities that resembled those jobs, and because in Final Fantasy X the Blue Mage abilities were on the same character that had the abilities of the Dragoon as well, meaning that it was more of a hybrid job in that game. And if we actually count the games out, there are 9 games (not counting spin-offs) that the Blue Mage did not appear in; that means there is exactly one more game without the Blue Mage, than there are games with the Blue Mage. I am counting direct sequels as part of the main Final Fantasy series instead of treating them as spin-offs, so that means Final Fantasy X-2, Final Fantasy XIII-2, and Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII all count as part of the main series for this discussion.

Regarding Astrologian being unique... that is in fact false. While it has indeed never appeared in the main Final Fantasy games before, nor has it ever appeared under the name "Astrologian" before, the Astrologian has in fact appeared in the Final Fantasy Franchise before. In 1997, a few months after the release of Final Fantasy VII the game Final Fantasy Tactics was released in Japan. One of the classes available in Final Fantasy Tactics was the Astrologer class; granted this was a unique class available only to the character by the name of Orran... but the class did exist previously, though it had a totally different set of abilities than the Astrologian is likely to have.