Personally, if I were to implement Blue Mage all over again, I would have sold it was a melee scouting DPS or tank, and focused on shapeshifting as the primary mechanic. There are a lot of jobs that ‘could’ fit that mold, but Blue Mage is the only established archetype that actively cares about shapeshifting. It’s a job that would have benefitted greatly from the early quest focused style of job ability acquisition. The ‘collectathon’ aspects I would have treated the same way as performance, a secondary emote system that has no place in regular combat.