Blue Magic - do the spells truly need to be learned manually?

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I'm ok with just skills remembering old games. There is so much to be done with either a Healer or DPS Blue Mage! Mighty Guard, White Wind, Expose, Life Drain, Transfusion... The possibilities are really high in number, it all comes to how "game balance" will prevent something new and well done.

Personally, I think it'd make more sense if Blue Mage was a Caster DPS with options.
For the "healing" part, though:

- White Wind could be a percentage-based healing spell (like what Lustrate used to be pre-Heavensward).
- Magic Hammer basically being their version of ACN/SMN/SCH's Energy Drain (but for MP only).
- Angel Whisper could be a raise spell.

Sadly, Mighty Guard is already used as a Lv.2 Limit Break for Tanks (not to mention that the current "Protect" works like a Protect + Shell, effectively making it redundant).

Still, and as you said, the possibilities are really high, so we'll just have to see what they come up with.