How Blue Mage Could Exist in FFXIV

[Talraen]

Ninja have traditionally been about freely equiping two weapons at once. In FFXIV, they just equip a specific weapon which happens to be a pair of daggers (Like monk equip a pair of cesti). Does that make the XIV incarnation of Ninja a bad one ?

There's a pretty big gap between "I can't decide to have two different weapons" and "the way I perform the core mechanic that differentiates my job from every other job works completely differently." Dual-wielding is hardly limited to ninjas, but only blue mages have ever learned spells from monsters.