Quote Originally Posted by Reynhart View Post
No, the only time BLU has ever been gated by level is in FFXI. For every other game, it's just that later monsters tend to teach more powerful spells, and it has nothing to do with the level you are to learn or use a spell. That's exactly why, in FFV, you only have Blue! instead of Blue1! to Blue6!. More importantly, in FFV, Blue Magic is learned by the party, which means a high level Master Blue Bartz could learn a spell usable by a very low level Blue 0 Krile.

No one cares what the order you're supposed to learn spells. White, Black and Red Mages don't have a choice of learning lower tier before higher ones.
That's wrong though, because you physically cannot enter those areas with those skills with low level BLU's because of boss or story restrictions, and even then a large amount of skills were not usable because they were awful.