My Idea For Fixing Blue Mage

[Blueyes]

BLU could have worked as a normal job. They could have picked a role, and taken classic blue mage spells to form a rotation/toolkit for that role, and just tied the monster part of it into job quests. It would have worked fine.

The thing is, SE has pretty much done those things already. They have picked a role for Blue Mage (it's a DPS), it will have a rotation (one similar to Bard, but it's a rotation none the less), and there will be quests that may or may not guide players towards learning certain spells.

It's true that Blue Mage would have to put in extra work compared to other jobs, but shouldn't it be up to the players to decide if they want to put in the work towards using Blue Mage in all content? I don't see why it's such a bad thing to have a job with a different progression system. If you don't want to put up with a Blue Mage who only has Water Cannon, you don't have to, just like you don't have to put up with a Black Mage who only casts ice spells.

SE is being overly protective of Blue Mage. It's like a parent refusing to let their kid go to the park out of fear that their kid will get beaten up.