Quote Originally Posted by LineageRazor View Post
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Yeah, those characters are certainly blue mages in spirit if not title. And I know they have fans. But considering FF XIV is really unlikely to have an actual 'go out into the world and learn spells from monsters' mechanic and the job would probably only resemble blue mage in spell names/aesthetics etc, my guess is that they'll stick pretty close to the classic blue mage look and theme, and I don't think they're going to say make it a magitek tank job like some people have suggested. But only time will tell for sure of course. If they made FF XVI or XVII as a more sandboxy MMO maybe a classic blue mage would be a great addition, in FF XIV I think the best they can aim for is to capture the aesthetic and classic spell list.

Quote Originally Posted by Zeldert-Castiel View Post
I always though that BLU is a tank class...

Other than that, I may have some ideas for the skills. They could get those by killing enemies from their job quests.
To the best of my knowledge it's never really been a 'tank' class. In SOME games you have to get hit from a spell to learn it but that's one and done. I wouldn't consider a job a tank unless it A. has an ability to draw hits towards it or to take hits for party members like Cover in the old turn based games, and B. is sturdy enough to not get rekt doing so. I wouldn't consider classic 'turn hp into damage' dark knight to be a tank for example.