A concerned Blue Mage, concerned about..certain..Blue Mage spells. improvement ideas.

[Anahlise_Auhn_Giinslai]

I can see what you’re going for and I had a similar idea back when BLU first arrived that we should have each element give a debuff that increases elemental weakness for another elemental spell (casting aqua breath would give a thunder resistance down so you cast high voltage which would give an Earth resistance down so you cast earthshaker and so on) so you could either equip a lot of damage spells to cycle elements or equip less damage spells for increased utility (mitigation/healing spells). It would just require a total rework of how all damage BLU spells work and at this point with all the new spells we have it might be too late for that.

to cycle through the elements is one idea of interest, yeh... My own idea was to split Blue Mage DPS into various styles. like instant damage versus DoTs, and also if Blue Mage could specialize into a certain element, to make DPS styles like to split Blue Mage into options like various -mancers, in this case being Aqua-, Cryo-, Levin-, Pyro-, Terra-, and Ventus-; as well as if Blue Mages could specialize into the "no-aspect" or physical damage spells.
Blue Mage has the potential to achieve real in-class diversity, if Squeenix would just allow the dev team to do it...

[Flay_wind]

to cycle through the elements is one idea of interest, yeh... My own idea was to split Blue Mage DPS into various styles. like instant damage versus DoTs, and also if Blue Mage could specialize into a certain element, to make DPS styles like to split Blue Mage into options like various -mancers, in this case being Aqua-, Cryo-, Levin-, Pyro-, Terra-, and Ventus-; as well as if Blue Mages could specialize into the "no-aspect" or physical damage spells.
Blue Mage has the potential to achieve real in-class diversity, if Squeenix would just allow the dev team to do it...

Good on paper, but then one style would likely be superior to others and everyone would just use that. Unless, it would require one other element to enable the strongest combo, which in turn just makes it a split into say a couple of pairs, or one "battery" player for the rest. Which is kinda sorta antifun as is, since that role already sorta exists in a tank role.
Overall i feel that it would create an unnecessary overcomplication and the current BLU is really fine as is.
You have your DoT upkeep, cooldown skills, like what more do you want? Combos for combo sake?

[Anahlise_Auhn_Giinslai]

that is kind of the whole point of to create balance, to kill off superiority...
There is no point in a debate over a pipe-dream that is never going to happen, though.

while for the sake of argument, I prefer complex. Blue Mage is too straight-forward "just use the best spells and forget the rest". In this sense, Blue Mage is exactly the same as every other subclass, all Blue Mages use the same exact spells and there is no diversity. What I desire is in-class diversity...
Yeh, the current Blue Mage is fine, but I am a selfish person, and fine is not good enough for me, as I want even better than fine...
But as I said, that is a pipe-dream that is never going to happen.

and why bother to ask me what more do I want? I did state what I want, in a clear manner, in my original post....at the moment, what I want as
a Blue Mage main, is just for the "worst" spells of my favorite subclass to be improved, so that they are no longer the "worst" spells.