Add Blue Mages Already

[Seraphor]

DoM tank would never ever work. A tank needs to hold agro and have good mitigation skills. I honestly don’t think a caster could keep up with casting both offensive and defensive abilities to be a tank. BLU will be dps and that’s that.

A combined shield spear/staff would be cool. Or, a tank that uses a giant Japanese Fan could work . Like Temari from Naruto.

Or, because a blue mage would be a caster/melee hybrid like Red, it has weaponskill for aggro and spells for DPS, with some instant cast spells (Just like all the gcds other tanks have) as additional aggro and defensive abilities.

There's no reason why that couldn't work.

Have it keep all the same stats as the other tanks incl. Strength, explain it as blue magic not being the casters own aether but the gathered aether of aggrod enemies.
Have the iconic blue magic spells utilise a job gauge instead of MP.
Sorted.

[Tint]

Or, because a blue mage would be a caster/melee hybrid like Red, it has weaponskill for aggro and spells for DPS, with some instant cast spells (Just like all the gcds other tanks have) as additional aggro and defensive abilities.

There's no reason why that couldn't work.

true, there is really no reason, as seen by the example of PLD. or DRK, wich has no casts, but both are meele / mage hybrid tanks...

sooo, why do we need BLU then?

in Dragon's Dogma you could play with a Cane and a Great Shield. You could cast spells and enchant the shield with elementals for perfect-block counter attacks. that was kind of fun ^^

oh and in FF8 we had Quistis, wich was a blue mage with a Whip.