Quote Originally Posted by Xerius View Post
I don't understand why the dev's seem to think that every job needs to come from the same cookie-cutter mold as all the other jobs, I for one would welcome a job with a completely new progressions system, just like Blue Mage was in FFXI. Camping out the Blue Magic spells was fun in it's own way and it was an accomplishment to finish your list.
When the question was brought up in a previous live letter, Yoshi-P explained why: it's because some players might be excluded if they didn't have a certain spell learned yet.

And, while Blue Mage was depicted as versatile in V and XI, they could easily go the Strago route for XIV and make BLU a Caster job like BLM and SMN.