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

[GMERC]

So basically we agree on the reasons something like a blue mage is not going to be what people want it to be.

If you have a look at my posting history (in particular in this very thread) you'll find that my idea of what a Blue Mage should be in this game already goes against the general consensus opinion. I am totally unphased by the possibility that it might not be a job that has to learn its abilities through being hit by equivalent enemy attacks, because that isn't the part of Blue Mage that matters to me, just as cast-from-HP abilities aren't the part of Dark Knight that matters to me.

[Reynhart]

I am totally unphased by the possibility that it might not be a job that has to learn its abilities through being hit by equivalent enemy attacks

Blue Mage could still gain abilities through being hit by an enemy attack. Just quest-enemies and not roaming ennemies.
But for that, we need several things :

• The job needs to start at level 1. This way, you wouldn't be able to dive right into party content before having the opportunity to do job quests.

• Each job quest from level 1 to level 60 (or 70) will give 1 new spell, contrary to class quest that only scarcely offer a new skill during the 1-30 time. This would give at least 16 monster skills to learn (No idea how many quests we'll have from 60 to 70). Considering Black Mage only learns 15 spells, that's actually not that bad. The 11 remaining skills would be learned by leveling from 1 to 50 and would mostly be abilities to further enhance the spells, with some weapon skills in the mix.

• For icing on the cake, what could be interesting is that you could chose between several spells when you tackle a quest, so the order in which you learn the spell while leveling could be different depending on your tastes.

[Katana190]

The job need to start at level 1. This way, you wouldn't be able to dive right into party content before having the opportunity to do job quests.

Right. If they ever end up making BLU they can't make it anything above level 30... it would take the experience away entirely.
I don't really agree with the new jobs starting at 50 either, I thought 30 made sense because all jobs start at 30.