I'm not sure if I've got this in the right spot or not, but in the middle of levelling my BLM and doing expert roulette as my PLD, a wild idea came to mind. What if we had the ability to play a dual wielding caster type tank??? The Blue Mage would essentially wear "of Casting" gear to maximize damage and be able to dual wield like the ninja, the job quests would give you your melee abilities plus whatever OGCDs square decided to throw in. You would have a separate ability book (actions and traits->actions) showing you what spells you could learn from monsters and possibly what mobs to learn them from. Yes the "of Casting" gear would limit the high HP pool for standard tanks but that's where spells that apply shadows (FFXI's occultation (grants caster up to 8 shadows to absorb attacks)) come into play as a form of decent damage mitigation. I know it sounds really broken but it would be cool to see it in game and how square fixes it to make it more bearable XD thank you for reading.