My Idea For Fixing Blue Mage

[Reynhart]

My Idea For Fixing Blue Mage

From my point of view, it wouldn't really "fix" anything about BLU.
BLU is, officialy, restricted for two reasons :

• Broken Skills because it's a big part of BLU being fun
• Customization that can lead to drama

And what you suggest won't change anything about these two. Sure you'd have some skill "required" for each role, but, unless your whole setup is required, you could still end with some drama in the "free" skills you have. It's the limited job equivalent of "I have the proper average ilvl, deal with my extremely underleveled weapon".

Even now we can come across players who don't have a certain skill (because it's from a job quest) or just don't bother to use their toolkit correctly, occasionally creating difficult runs in the duty finder.

Not having a skill is not a "choice", it's a loss. BLU is different because it will have to chose its skills. I've used that example on others topics, but imagine all the drama we'd have if job could only chose 5 job skills from their list. You'd end with tanks not having their tank stance or their self healing, because they want to do moar deeps.