As someone who prays to see Blue Mage made into a balanced and functional job for all content, and who also doesn't want to see everything unique to Blue Mage stripped away, I have to be honest, I'm not the biggest fan of the dual soul stone approach.

It is more work placed on the shoulders of the development team compared to simply having one or the other, but also, I don't really want it to feel like Blue Mage has an "identity crisis" so to speak. I would prefer to see Blue Mage be cohesive across content. If spell restrictions become a necessity to have a balanced Blue Mage, I would have its full list of spells accessible only through the Masked Carnival because that is the only content that has been created with BLU's full list of spells in mind.

Don't get me wrong. In the months leading up to BLU's announcement, my pet project was to create a fan concept for Blue Mage. It was designed to be as grounded as possible, using real actions from real monsters that already existed within FFXIV. The goal was to prove that Blue Mage can work as a balanced and functional job in FFXIV, but the project was never finalized. Eventually, I told myself, "I'll just let SE figure it out," and well... back to the drawing board I go. Once we understand the function of every action available to Blue Mage, I hope to contribute towards a proposed solution that attempts to retain as much as possible.