No I dont play Blue anymore.
Did not enjoy the concept of limited jobs before playing it and when I played it I knew exactly why I dont enjoy the concept.
Have only played it on release, might have played it more if it was a normal job and maybe it could have even become my second job next to summoner if it would have been fun because I like mages.
It should be made into a real job. There is no reason to have it limited, especially because its underpowered and not overpowered and because its kinda death "content" since people cant do much with it after reaching lvl 50.
Dont look much into party finder because I mostly gather and craft right now. But I also dont run into many blue mages out there.
That would probably be Yoshidas answer but I dont believe it. They just imo went the easiest way to do that and seeing how people on this very forum came up with better ideas quite fast, I d do believe that we might have gotten real job if people continued to ask for it and the devs not going the "cheap" way.
In the end this is just a strange way to implement it. They did not make it into a normal job because you need to learn spells by killing monsters and because it would be too overpowered. Yet you can get certain spells only through achievements and a vendor and they have no problem of stopping you with the questline if you dont have certain spells. So what stops them from doing the same for blues in duty finder? And its funny how they are seemingly not powerful at all, maybe even weaker than some other DD with the same gear..so how are they not ready for duty finder? The skills, especially the aoes seems to be kinda the same just with different names. And they say that its mostly a solo job and stops them from taking part in a lot of group content, yet most skills are hidden behind group content..Its like they dont even know what to do with it..
I just hope that they dont introduce another limited job in the future.