Bluemage in its current state is a time sink and nothing more. The main point of Blue mage, the Masked Carnivale, needs skills from ARR end game content to reliably do. Of said skills, The drop rate for skills from primals is so stupidly low, that if a party of 8 lvl 50s got together they'd be spending WEEKS on lvl 50 content that nobody enjoys doing just to get one stupid skill. As it is, people go into lvl 50 content with lvl 70s carrying them. Even then it takes hours to days to get any skill whatsoever from the primals.

And anyone who says, "It's supposed to be solo. You're supposed to solo content with it." I don't think anyone can solo Aurum Vale, which is required to get Glower for the Masked Carnivale. They either have to get a party of 4 lvl 50s or hope a lvl 70 comes by and helps them. And beyond that, the EX Primals are so not solo-able it's laughable to even think that. They also take a lot of time with full party of lvl 50s, about 10 minutes each time. The primals are so bad, that some of them require 2 lvl 70s to be able to carry some blue mages. If you need 100 runs to get a skill on avg, then that's a LOT of time sunk into one single skill that's only semi-usable. It's a grind, plain and simple. Nothing more or less.

So, while it IS fun to get skills from overworld mobs, it's not so fun from content that you have to cheat the system and use PF for. Or beg lvl 70s to come and basically do your job for you. This class is anything but "solo content".