JUST FOR DISCUSSION: How would YOU make BLU a normal job with rotation

[linay]

Who says a job needs a rotation?

It needs something to justify acquiring and using multiple abilities, especially if the acquirement process is left to the player to do manually, such as the case with Blue Mage.

[rachcouture]

make it a jack of all trades job. give it 3 stances. 1 stance would be for dps, 1 for tanking, 1 for healing. all skills would be useable regardless of which stance you're in, but they would have an increased mp and decreased potency, and possibly even cast time if you're not in the correct stance for them.

Yes please. That'd be amazing and a breath of fresh air for this game's class design.

It needs something to justify acquiring and using multiple abilities, especially if the acquirement process is left to the player to do manually, such as the case with Blue Mage.

Okay, but adding something as mundane as a rotation in a game that has too many of them isn't going to do it.

[linay]

Okay, but adding something as mundane as a rotation in a game that has too many of them isn't going to do it.

Too many? Irrelevant. Each job is only concerned with its own rotation, not any other rotation.