Blue mage spells are almost entirely all reskins with the exact same potency with a few meme spells thrown in the mix. There is hardly a point in collecting the same spell over and over again to use in a carnival that has no interesting rewards, especially beyond the 2 weeks after the patch hits. No-echo runs are very niche content-if I want the rewards from an old raid I'm doing it unsync at lvl 80 with max ilvl.

I feel that the few remaining blue mage players see the world through a different lens than most people. There would be a whole lot more blue mages out there if they had just made this a normal job. Enjoy your tentacle monster and weekly challenges. The vast majority of the playerbase has better things to do.