Quote Originally Posted by KDSilver View Post
I hardly see how BLU couldn't have both aspects on the game.
So, basically, you want a gimped version of the Blue Mage specifically made and balanced to fit into normal party gameplay? In short, you want a boring mage that has nothing to do with BLU except funny animations for its skills, while ALSO having a solo content designed exclusively for that job? That'd be a very poor attempt at forcing BLU to be what it's not.

Blue mage is about learning abilities from monsters, and using these abilities into battle, while choosing what is the most effective against what you are fightning. None of these aspects can translate well into the current multiplayer battle content of the game. If you were to force it to fit "normal play", you wouldn't have monster learned abilities, you'd have fixed skills and fixed rotation. You wouldn't have monster weaknesses to play with like you will in the Carnival. None of that is the kind of BLU I would like to play in normal party settings.

BLU is wild. It's special and weird. Trying to force it into being "normal" would end up in a very poor result.
Just enjoy it being a side content thing. As it's the best they could do with it.