Why do people want Blue Mage in this game?

[Reiryuu]

I think FF9 had it, too, with Quina, but s/he was a weird case. I don't know what a Beastmaster does (typical hunter?), and I'm assuming lycanthropy is transformation into a ... were-creature of some sort?

Actually, come to think, we don't have any jobs that revolve around transformations a la Druid from Diablo 2's expansion (or WoW). I think it'd be cool to play as a job that transforms.

Strago [Is that how his name was spelled? Relm's father] (FF6) and Gau (FF4) were also BLUs in a sense though not by name (they both learned abilities from monsters)

Beastmaster summoned monsters from pots in FFXI. They were in other FFs too, V had one IIRC