Puppetmaster

[Sylvain]

To myself and others, a blue mage just needs to use enemy skills. How you learn them isn't too important since there's been various methods in the franchise.

But to many it is important, to many having the current implementation of the BLU is really important, above being able to do current content.
I'd rather have a full job too but many don't. Many just want the flavor above all else and it matters a lot because it is the very reason why they implemented BLU as limited instead of not at all.

that could be some kind of toggle to switch between the two modes, a completely separate job stone

well, if that were to happen, it won't be before LONG because there are so many jobs that already could be implemented, if they were to add "BLU" as an actual caster (or tank, or heal... probably tank or dps tho). Altough the animation would already been done, designing an engaging rotation would still take nearly as much time as creating a new job from scratch.

Heck, perhaps it would even be harder simply because BLU is just a mess by design. Making a cohesive dps rotation with a bunch of random spell might actually be harder than designing something from scratch like the Repear.

Then the issue with doing such thing would be, what about the other jobs? what about RDM? BST, PUP, what about any other job that could fit that limited job fantasy?

To me that's a can of worm they simply won't open.
At least I wouldn't.

We can agree or disagree with their choice of making limited job.

Personally I'd rather have them as limited than not at all, which was their stance when asked during HW. Same goes for BST PUP and whatnot.

There are things that I wish blue did better, more specifically more interaction with spell and less "220 spammable ST/AoE spell with 50% falloff".
But overall the addition of new skills make it all the more fun to play in older content.
But that's a different topic.

I'll stop here but my bottom line is, I don't think it is realistic to expect the BLU to become an actual job, I mean not in a near future anyway (and by near I mean anything before 8.0 at this point). When it comes to PUP and BST I could be wrong, they could be released as full job, but Y.P hinted that they'd be nice Limited, I would also pick those as new limited for the same reason they have chosen BLU (because you can't have the fantasy and full job at the same time, you're gonna have to cut somewhere).

There are a million "what if they'd do that" or "they could do that" to make BLU or PUP or BST as real job, but in the end, they probably won't because they've make up their mind. BLU is limited and will always be, BST and PUP will probably be limited (BST is almost confirmed from an interview) so it's more a matter of when than if and that's it.

If anything proposing new ideas to enhance blu as a limited job will be more productive. But that's just me.