Late to the BLU Party

[jon041065]

That would defeat the entire concept of hunting down enemy skills, and there would be no reason at all for it to be a limited job.

Disagree with the first half of that statement and agree with the second half.

I mean if you really want to get into it, every job has suffered sweeping changes to fit into the game. White Mage, Scholar, Black Mage, all of them. Still, (increasing amounts of) people are still playing FFXIV, so those design choices can't be as hated as some would like to make you believe. There's no reason Blue Mage should be the first job where the line is drawn and limitations are placed because "it just can't work".

If anything the design philosophy should be to make jobs like this "Advanced Jobs", with additional content and hurdles to clear before being able to bring them into the full game, not "Limited Jobs", where they are just restricted from the full game arbitrarily, and (for now) permanently.