I'm personally more interested in a light mage of sorts. perhaps exorcist or something like that. Make them some order founded to track down voidsent during the war of the magi. We don't have a light centric dps yet like healers do with white mage or tanks with paladin. Considering we have been called the warrior of light for so long, having a dps job centered around using light would be nice. Perhaps I should make a thread on it. Maybe i'll get motivated eventually. xD

I honestly prefer geomancer over green mage and even better if it is like a mage tank with a hammer/bell hybrid that uses different aspects of nature. Viking and rune fencer are already technically in the game with marauder and red mage.

As for the magic melee idea, I do like it kinda, but it falls flat when you realize there is a ton of jobs that fight in melee that use magic. Samurai, Dark Knight, Reaper, Paladin, Ninja, etc. Three of those off the top of my head use magic.