A question for the BLU peeps

[Beckett]

First off, jobs are content.

Now tell me, how could it been made unique from other casters? Like, I want someone here to fully detail out HOW you could make BLU compatible with PF but still keep the monster skills at 100% power.

Anyone want to take a stab at that? Someone?

If this post were made circa 2015, it would read:

"How could Red Mage be made unique from other casters? Like, I want someone here to fully detail out HOW you could make RDM compatible with PF but still keep their equal balance of healing, casting and melee DPS."

It wont be BLU anymore, at least no in spirit. It just becomes a caster with a new rotation/priority/resource management system that has a harder time acquiring its skills compared to other casters. Thats what it boils down to. So when people say things like "Make it work no matter what," those people are sidelining the core aspect of a BLU mage. This really then is just saying "All I really wanted was a new caster class thats called BLU mage."

And today you could easily say that Red Mage in FFXIV is not RDM, at least not in spirit. You would almost universally be called foolish, but you could say it, and in the truest most technical sense, you would still be correct. XIV's Red Mage does not have the classic jack-of-all-trades, master-of-none style that Red Mage is known for, but that doesn't matter because the job is still fun. And despite being forced to conform to the confines of XIV's systems, very few people would argue that it doesn't still feel like playing a Red Mage. There is no reason to assume that the same thing couldn't have been done with Blue Mage.

I absolutely understand the excitement for the new type of content that Limited Blue Mage will bring, and the fatigue of getting new jobs that need to fit into the same set roles. Those are perfectly valid opinions to have. But the claim that Blue Mage could never have been implemented as a standard job while still keeping its identity is, at the very least, misguided.