Quote Originally Posted by TheRealMadruck View Post
Remember Kiki, in 4.5 you will be leveling to a max 50 and acquire skills like every other job in the current system of FF14. Like DRK, AST, MCH had a number of skills preset when you start at 30 and RDM/SAM at 50...it is incredibly safe to assume the same will happen to BLU. They are only now going a different way...instead of handing them out, they are making to which you acquire them via normal leveling. Why? It is simple...SE is in this for $ and they know BLU is a incredibly popular job in the FF universe. They are more than likely doing it this way to keep people subbed, which to me is completely reasonable.

Sorry, but this will not be the BLU you may expect if you played FF11 or any in the past that had BLU. Like RDM, we will see a variation of BLU in respects to FF14.
They've already indicated that it is going to be different to other jobs and separate from them and is the first "limited job", but the latter is pretty ambiguous. So I don't think applying the same logic as the existing job system works. Whilst I am not expecting FFXI copy pasta, but there are some core fundamentals they adhere to in setting up jobs. For example they were clever with RDM because they managed to mix melee skills, magic spells and healing spells into the job and make them all useful to appeal to it's fast casting jack of all trades. But they have previously indicated the challenges of handling Blue Mage. However, we should learn more today.