In a recent talk with some friends of mine on new jobs, one of them mentioned this idea that really got me thinking about how viable it would be.

I honestly don't know as much about prior blue mages and blue magic as I'd like to know, and the abilities they'd have access to in XIV even less so, so I decided to bring the idea here and see if people had any ideas of how this could work.

Just from my own musings, I would think that BLU could be a viable supportive damage dealer in a similar vein to the BRD. Lancer supplies all your main damage-dealing abilities and the five abilities you get from your class quests could be used to give the player access to debuffing things like Charged Whisker and Bad Breath. I would think they'd also get some party buffs, but I honestly don't recall any enemies using buffing abilities aside from the beastmen casting things like the en-spells (which would be something more in the realm of Red Mages).