A concerned Blue Mage, concerned about..certain..Blue Mage spells. improvement ideas.

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A fair argument, and I see your point. You are correct, but I will still disagree, as it is a matter of play-style preference... I see Blue Mage with more DoTs as more fun, as I like to play around with DoTs and work around the challenge of maintaining them, if there are several. I would like it if Blue Mage also had "Electrocuted", "Burns", "Sludge", a proper "WindBurn", a proper "Poison", and even less well known DoTs like "Flesh Wound"; while I was quite disappointed that NightBloom is just Song of Torment upgraded, instead of a new DoT...
before you argue, I will add... Imagine if there was more than one "correct" way to play Blue Mage. So what if we have a meta of "Best Spells"? we may eventually have more than 24 "Best Spells", and then meta or not, it will not be possible to use "all of" the best meta spells... I would like to see Blue Mage have in-class diversity, complete different ways to play Blue Mage, with none of these various viable play-styles being a "wrong" one.

if a person does not like DoT management, then just do not play the DoT blue Mage style, or use Blue Mage DoTs, and play a different valid style of Blue Mage, for a example... albeit that Blue Mage has yet to reach the point where we have too many spells, to have a single viable meta... But I hope that it happens, and that Blue Mage becomes in-class diverse.

I can see what you’re going for and I had a similar idea back when BLU first arrived that we should have each element give a debuff that increases elemental weakness for another elemental spell (casting aqua breath would give a thunder resistance down so you cast high voltage which would give an Earth resistance down so you cast earthshaker and so on) so you could either equip a lot of damage spells to cycle elements or equip less damage spells for increased utility (mitigation/healing spells). It would just require a total rework of how all damage BLU spells work and at this point with all the new spells we have it might be too late for that.