Some love for Blue Mage

[Phoenicia]

I don't really agree with having a ton of melee combos or something , even if "traditionally" BLU is a melee caster, it's not here. It's also not from the source it was from , which was FF5. In FF5, BLU had rather mediocre bad Melee stats. The main one it was even really a melee was FFXI. It's even catergorized as Magical Ranged DPS. We need more ranged spells for it. we have tons of melee cleave, we just spam glower.

I did not say make it exclusively melee. I said "a" melee combo. Of course I am not asking it to be the next SAM or MNK.

In FF5 even BLU's Magic Stat was low. BLU was a battle mage just like red mage. Slightly weaker magic and slightly stronger attack (BLU wore shields while red mages didn't). BLU was never about raw power in either aspect but rather about special and cheesy effects. For example BLU isn't a healer but White Wind is a very strong heal. Heck the ffxiv iteration of WW is the weakest it's ever been (since it used to have aoe esuna in 7, 8 and 9). Their offensive and defensive capabilities came from abusing certain effects. Just like how this iteration is trying to make it, but failing miserably at it.

I wasn't even comparing this BLU to FF5's BLU specifically. However, Every FF game that had BLU had them with decent melee capabilities. Check Tactics Advance, FF5, FFXI, And to an extent Quistis and Quina in 8 and 9. What SE classifies them is irrelevant, RDM has the same classification of Magical Ranged DPS and still has its strongest burst in the form of a melee combo. Paladins are tanks yet they have one of the strongest single target heal spells and one of their burst phases is a magical nuke spam.