Blue mage at patch 4.5

[Hanayumi]

3 jobs would have been better, but that's OK. Let's settle for less when we could have had more!

The ONLY identity for blue mage that's been consistent is that it learns abilities from monsters, then uses them on their own. They have never had a full carnival sidestory, and they've never been excluded from participating in the game itself. You can bring Quistis or Quina or Kimarhi with you the whole game.

It would likely take less work to do that than to do the Carnivale and balancing that. The difference is BLU in relevant content is a better long-term option than being relegated to content that'll last, at most, about 6 months (and only because people will be bored as hell with nothing new coming after 4.5.)

There is a lot.... of work that go into making a full on job, but the main idea is "Balance." Blue Mage would pretty much have to settle down to a role, caster dps, for obvious reasons like stats, gear, required skills for roles. Would also need to progress well with other jobs as it levels, wouldnt be able to obtain all possible skills right from the start, just the usual couple skills every few levels, monsters would pretty much have to be only the open world as you cant really lock out skills in like dungeons or primal fight unless it solo instance... I mean slowly and slowly you start losing out on a real blue mage and instead start getting a regular caster with a blue mage gimmick...