Would Blue Mage make a good tank?

[Nalien]

If BLU is ever in this game, they will learn skills from class quests mostly, and that'll make it just be a DPS.

How will that make it a DPS? That's a huge leap in logic, same as mine... It's a Job that could technically do anything...

Blue Mage is a mage Job that (should) learn spells by taking them to the face... It should be tanky as a result... Whether it actively learns them, or just gets them through a quest (which can still simulate taking moves to the face to learn them), it's lore should still be "A mage that takes enemy skills to the face and lives to throw them back", that's Tank material. Or would we prefer another mage that goes out and defeats stuff to learn new skills? Because that's how Summoner works with its (might as well not exist) Egi...

Not sure why people want to turn cool jobs like blue mage, mystic knight, and samurai into a tank. They even wanted ninja to be a tank before it was implemented to the game as a DPS. It's boring, bros.

The concept of a mage Tank is infinitely more interesting than the three heavy armor melee Tanks we've currently got.

There's a list of possible Jobs they could add, and a list they've even suggested... Samurai as a Tank would be thematically no different than Paladin, Warrior or Dark Knight. Red Mage and Blue Mage would make the role a lot more interesting...

They're not going to not add new Tanks... So I'd rather they mix things up... Likewise, I don't want the next Healer to be something standard, I'd rather see something like Dancer fill the role, because that wouldn't be another mage Healer.

Repetition will kill this game, already bad enough with have Bard and Machinist as near-identical Jobs... I'd rather not see Blue Mage go through the same motions as Summoner, and I'd rather not see a new Tank/Healer be near-identical to the current three... Another mage DPS that throws enemy moves at enemies? How is that honestly going to be more impressive than Akh Morn? It isn't. Give me a unique play on the Tanking role instead.