Could Blue Mage do more in the future?

[Cabalabob]

There are a lot of issues with BLU being a regular job and you should probably set your expectations to “it will never happen”.

First off, BLU doesn’t have any innate abilities, it learns absolutely everything from monsters. Imagine a BLU joining your DF run having learned NO SPELLS. Are there ways around this? Yes. Would they require significant work on SE part? Yes. Will they put in that work? Probably not.

Second, BLU is actually really weak. Sure it can do crazy stuff but that’s because it has so much utility like white wind and diamondback. Take those away and what’s left? A really mediocre dps. Like 1k dps behind a BLM of the same level kind of mediocre.

And most importantly, it would just be really boring… BLU has no job mechanics or interesting attacks. You’d have 1 dps spell that you spam, a DoT and some oGCDs. Basically a healer without the healing.

There are more issues with it but those are the main 3 that come to my mind. Don’t get me wrong, I wish BLU could have been a regular job and I’d love them to prove me wrong, but at this stage in its development? I really can’t see it ever happening.