I already knew before it would be announce that it would never be viable,why ? his gameplay is not suited for MMO,
1000needle from pampa,when you're level 10 ? its great,when you're lvl 70 ? 1000dmg ? totaly useless,morbol breath ? boss are immune to 90% of abnormal status,so everything that make Blue Mage great if other FF can't be implemented,so yeah,good idea in solo game,bad in MMO because it wont scale good enough.