Quote Originally Posted by Nalien View Post
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...
Because there's no reason for it to be tanky if they are going to learn skills from class quests, the only reason they would need to be tanky would be, as I stated, if they were going to learn a move from every fight they go to. Which...isn't going to happen, as I also said.

Blue mages have always had mostly damage skills, with just a few supporty/healing/buff abilities on the side. DPS just makes the most sense, you don't need to be a full-blown tank to take a few hits...