So... that spiderman shirt... (new job tease)

[Vexander]

Seems more that Yoshi is pointing out the flaws in a traditional Blue Mage playstyle with an MMO setting, rather than stating it'll never be on the slate for FFXIV. Like RDM, it could be they decided that its more important to honor the aesthetic of the class over the substance.

[Lufir]

Seems more that Yoshi is pointing out the flaws in a traditional Blue Mage playstyle with an MMO setting, rather than stating it'll never be on the slate for FFXIV. Like RDM, it could be they decided that its more important to honor the aesthetic of the class over the substance.

Agreed 100%. It seems likely that the only thing traditional about RDM will be the artifact armor look. RDM has a history of learning the exact same spells as a BLM and WHM albeit at higher levels. But, I'm pretty sure that RDM will not be sharing ANY of the BLM or WHM spells like Fire 1,2,3 or Cure 1,2,3 like it has in every other Final Fantasy title. FFXIV is reinventing the Red Mage. Why can't they do the same thing with Blue Mage? Just watch, RDM won't feel like a traditional RDM once you outgear the initial 4.0 artifact armor and you equip the next patch's generic mage gear shared by Summoner and Black Mage.

Red Mage will no doubt be a blast to play and kick ass in the ranged dps department. But, glamour will be it's only saving grace for tradition. So when we argue about why BLU won't work in an MMO setting or how SAM can't be a tank... Just look at RDM and see that FFXIV does not have to stick with tradition at all and can recreate any job as long as it looks the part.

[ADVSS]

yeah the BLU is really touchy subject i cant really say will or wont work either way, it can be made but people may not be very satisfied, i was more of a rdm fan than a blu so im not as terribly sentimental about it as someone who is a big fan of BLU would be. For balance sake, we all know exactly what formula will have to be taken, and exactly how many skills and traits(for now) they will get every x levels, and then theres the role-forcing its skill set to mostly lean a certain way, if just an open world jpb for anything besides dungeons trials and raids, maybe. probably not instance pvp either, Or BLU could do both, and the books/spells could be given to a companion chocobo or something, while in dungeons itd have the same typical role-based skill set. Bad ideas, i know im sorry