Quote Originally Posted by Kaitoo View Post
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Why would that have to be the case? None of the current casting jobs really play all that similarly at all in my experience, and I have all of them at 70.
They could make Blue Mage a casting DPS, but give it a bunch of fast-casting short range spells so it has to move around a lot.
They could make it use a heavily proc-based system like Bard where it always has to react to changing conditions.
They could even make Blue Mage into a full-on tank, if they so chose. It certainly has a decent amount of tools for it already, so many of the changes would just be stats.

Also, I think the image you quoted is sarcastic... all those Glowers represent the mechanically ideal way of playing BLU now. Why not make it more interactive and fun to play? The current system is unique in implementation, but the actual combat gameplay gets stale fast.