I'm going to go with the unpopular opinion that if we ever get Blue Mages in FFXIV, they are not going to be anything like we all know as enemy skill learners as we know it. But I don't just express this opinion without grounds to speculate. Here's what I think, and additionally, below will be a spoiler for those not current with the MSQ.


I think SE is alluding to the possibility of a new job and showcasing it as an "artificial mage" in both Krile and Fordola. I think that, given what we know about their transformations that they may in some form evolve into blue mage, but in the sense that they were crammed full of Aether, and as such, attune to the Aether of others, allowing the possibility of "replicating" them and theirs.

That's just what I think