A question for the BLU peeps

[Reynhart]

But BLU magic has been balanced in every game to date. FFXIV would be no different.

Blue Mage is horribly imbalanced in most games. In V, it can cheese a lot of bosses that other jobs would have to fight the fair way. In VII, it gives access to more powerful spells than most materias, for cheaper and far earlier, and in IX, with the proper setup, it allows Quina to hit damage cap from the very beginning.

The only games where Blue Magic could arguably be balanced are the two that considered it so powerful that they were used as Limit Break.