Why do people want Blue Mage in this game?

[MagiusNecros]

They tied weapons and classes together instead of tying skills and abilities to each class. And since 2 jobs branch off of Arcanist you have 2 jobs that share the skills of the base class. That's where they fucked up. Each class always had proficiency(what can be equipped) in types of armor and types of weapons in other FF games. Not to mention the way they handle stats is more simplistic to accommodate their simplistic design. An ugly mess IMO when most cases you focus on a single stat to do everything for you.

If they want to do away with base classes and retain the armory system they will have to remove cross class skills and basically tack on skills to the job that give the same effects.

Otherwise they will have to scratch the entire system they are using and come up with something else. And with the game this far in it's life they likely won't do that.

But when you factor in that some of these "cross class" skills are mandatory for your job and they are already limited to begin with. Ask yourself. Are they really cross class skills? Because they are not.