How a Shapeshifter Could Work in FFXIV

[Brightshadow]

Honestly the shapeshifter of this series is a Blue Mage. If Square wants to add a shapeshifter they should just add Blue Mage, which is basically a monster tanking since they use monster abilities.

As for gear, there is no reason why they can't just use Intelligence gear. All they need is a trait that converts Intellect to VIT. As for your shapeshifter I have an idea.

You know how in FFIX garnet would sometimes get like critical hit when summoning and have the full summon animation instead of a half summon animation. Perhaps blue magic could work similar. When using spells normal they would just use monster animation, but when Crit or an ability is used the spirit of the enemy would appear in back of the BLU to use the ability or something like that. Which would feel like a shapeshifter.