How Blue Mage Could Exist in FFXIV

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Once. They learned by getting hit once.

Actually the main reason why I didn't make it a tank was because I never felt like it had enough of a toolkit for tanking. Sure, some examples like White Wind and Mighty Guard (a.k.a. the tank 2-bar Limit Break), but there's really not much more than that. It was also traditionally never that tanky, only being sturdy enough to take just as many hits as any other typical melee job, hence why I kept it to that role and tried providing more support components.

I have to agree that the vast majority of its spell kit was dps related and debuffing, but now with RDM we're starting to get less needy in that department...hmmm

However in terms of a DD caster that RDM didnt fill, we still have room for one that has more debuffing and buffing than straight res/cure so there could still be room for it as a caster DD...

Thing is I would be shocked to see no tank or healer in 5.0. And given what balance we have now, i would just think wed get a ranged physical if we got a dps(like in HW)

if they held onto the thavnair theme id love to see MSTK make that tank slot as well, but after seeing SAM implemented which all classic iterations show it surely had to be a tank, im not entirely certain that theyd have to go with the aesthetic

And besides M barrier, all of MST toolkit was Up DPS with spell sword, so hmmm

Healer would be pretty odd fpr BLU, but it would be funny fo be rewarded for missing a mechanic