I don't understand BLU defenders

[LineageRazor]

from my point of view BLU is a job that don't fit at all in FFXIV, what makes BLU a BLU is not only learning the skills from monsters but how this skills works too, most of then are based on add status effects like petry, oil, charm, curse, ect ect and none of then are allowed in FFXIV for balance purposes bcs every job have the right to be equally value in high end content.

EVERY job we have is tailored to fit this game. Traditionally, a major purpose of BLM was to exploit enemies' elemental weaknesses with a variety of elemental spells, for example - that is COMPLETELY gone. While a lot of Blue Magic spells include status, there are plenty that do not. Keep only Bad Breath, and make it as useful as BLM's Sleep or SMN's Tri-Bind or any other job's crowd control abilities.

And their other spells? Give them Frost Breath for a nice aoe when dealing with packs, and for single-target DPS, have different sorts of Blue Magic interact with each other in interesting ways, like Magic Hammer inflicts a short-duration magic vulnerability that can be exploited by Death Ray, or Head Butt renders the mob briefly vulnerable to Slashing damage in order to follow up with Death Scissors. And hey, the Frost Breath example above? Inflict Fire vulnerability for a Bomb Toss follow-up! That's just one example of how you can include a variety of status-free Blue Magic spells while still making for an engaging and interesting DPS job.

YoshiP, judging by his comments on BLU four years ago and what we wound up with today, is clearly stuck in a rut in his thinking of how the job must work. But he's wrong. Every job was changed and given its own identity in this game, and that identity does not precisely match how it has been in previous games. If Yoshi's vision for BLU was incompatible with the game, he needed to change his vision, not implement it as-is (and preserve balance by locking it out of practically everything).

So yes. A Blue Mage, depending on how crazy they will go on the skills, can be the BEST tank and the BEST healer in the whole game, despite being locked to a DPS role and DPS casters stats. Because its skills don't even CARE about its stats outside of damage.

So... don't give them these things. Problem solved. White Wind didn't cure everyone for current HP in FFXI, for example - it was just a regular cure spell. On the subject of game-breaking buffs, BRD was king of these in FFXI, but look at it in this game?

When a job seems too OP to add to an MMO, change the job so it's not OP.