Blue Mage is a masterpiece of game design.

[Shougun]

It's supposed to be a solo job, but you need a skill from Tam-tara Deepcroft to continue job quests very early on. Not to mention the skills acquired from T1 and the Ex Primals...

Questionable skills like Self-Destruct and Final Sting...okay? And some of the skills are different from the actual monster counterparts. So much for them having to be the same.

I think if they allowed squadrons and the trust system to work with blue mage those party spells wouldn't be so rough (easy now, I mean far into the future it might be bad to get those skills).

As for the two goof spells I think they're just that lol, I wish the other jobs had goof spells to be honest. No teleport craig on white mage, crazy jump spells on dragoon.. ;(

I'm legit confused on why Blue Mage is banned from Squadrons.

I can already have my squadron clear an entire dungeon for me, with only me contributing against bosses, and only be

cause it locks me in the room with them. So having me as dead weight doesn't matter.

I can also command my squadron to hold back, should there be a skill I still need to see for a chance to learn.

I can only see two reasons for this: a limitation of the mechanics used to queue up for it, or because the already increased exp pool from command missions would be absolutely broken in the hands of a BLU.

Same lol and I think either the DF mechanic works through it some how (as you mention later) or they wanted players to team up in the beginning. As Blue Mage gets older though I definitely think it's a huge missed opportunity if they don't allow Blue Mage into it (at least assuming they don't already have a plan to do it later).