but and hear me out here every job is a limited job when you think about it

[Necrotica]

Taking this into account they really could turn Blue Mage into the only hybrid class. Have it choose a 'stance' to que with, either healer/tank/dps and have certain abilities types locked based on that.

For example. BLU ques as tank. Select 2 AOE, 3 cooldown single target, 3 mitigation, 2 heal, 2 cc abilities, 1 interrupt, 1 off gcd single target, 1 off gcd aoe. It is like I just described every single tank class right there.

Then do the same with Healer. 1 dps ability to spam. 12 other healing abilities but you only use 2 of them. (I don't know I got too bored of healer to stick with it.)

This simplicity could finally bring Blue Mage out of limited status!

[pikalovr]

Taking this into account they really could turn Blue Mage into the only hybrid class. Have it choose a 'stance' to que with, either healer/tank/dps and have certain abilities types locked based on that.

For example. BLU ques as tank. Select 2 AOE, 3 cooldown single target, 3 mitigation, 2 heal, 2 cc abilities, 1 interrupt, 1 off gcd single target, 1 off gcd aoe. It is like I just described every single tank class right there.

Then do the same with Healer. 1 dps ability to spam. 12 other healing abilities but you only use 2 of them. (I don't know I got too bored of healer to stick with it.)

This simplicity could finally bring Blue Mage out of limited status!

sad part is people would still choose him over current tanks or DPS BLUs "invuln" is hands down the best in the game and he can actually get some nutty DPS out with his comboing thatg actual feels like a combo not just hitting 1-2-3 and getting MP and gauge and a small amount of health *cough* DRK *cough* healer would prolly be the most balanced (at current state) role of BLU if it was introduced like this