my assessments are that of several other parses done 3 years ago and comparing it to the stated parse of the blue mage as said before. take account to blue mage getting 100% damage boost and healing boost when soloing. thus in group play they lose the solo buff. I have calculated that without that buff, the parse of blue mage stated before has been cut un half since when solo it is doubled. simple math isnt everyone's specialty. now taking a look at stormblood parsing, black mage parse average is 14k dps. without the solo buff, blue mages dps is currently 16k burst and 8k stall dps.

now for the healing. As stated before redmage can heal and res back to back but its dps would drop. same situation lies with any class. when you stop DPSing, your dps goes down. That is obvious, but it does so even more for blue mage since the only heal you can use as dps is white wind (costly to spam with 1500 cost). Other heals dont go above 100 potency and isnt worth spamming. (if you want to factor in switching to healer mimicry, that further lowers its dps drastically)

Blue mage can also only revive once every 5 minutes where other classes do not have such a limitation.

I would figure some would understand how dps works but comparing a parse from storm blood black mage and CURRENT blue mage(excluding solo buff) is quite the gap with black mage in the lead for steady dps. 8k steady with 16k burst vs 14k dps steady.

look into dps with synced groups and compare it to other classes. you will be surprised how blown out of proportion blue mage really is compared to other jobs.