Quote Originally Posted by Jandor View Post
Honestly, blue mages not being tanks would drive me crazy. Tanks have a blue symbol, blue mages are blue. You can't give them a red DPS symbol
As nice as it would be in theory, contrary to popular belief, Blue Mages were never tanks, historically being either full-blown "clothies" or being no sturdier than what a typical melee DPS would be. Yes, they occasionally had to get hit to learn a spell, although most cases simply required them to just see the spell to learn it along with couple of examples that required either an item or ability. And I'm sure there's someone to say "but they were tanks in XI", to which my response has always been "so was everything else".

Now Green Mage would be more of a tank, but that would be weird too giving them a blue tank symbol.