Quote Originally Posted by Eorzean_username View Post
What made Blue Mage "Blue Mage" was that it:

• Wore blue clothes
• Stole, copied, or learnt skills from Monsters, rather than leveling-up or spell-scrolls
• Wielded Monster skills in battle, rather than traditional Black/White spells

THAT'S. IT. That's Blue Mage. That's all you needed to do!!
Even then, what you're describing is the traditional Blue Mage o: Final Fantasy has introduced variants

Because if we go by FF8, you obtained spells via items.
In FF9, you had to eat an enemy with the skill you wanted to learn.
In FF10, you had a specific command you had to use to learn the spell.
And though Brave Exvius takes a spin on the traditional approach, which is one I hoped the devs would implement. The Blue Magic you get is tied to the story progression.

And there's nothing wrong with the story quests being like "Ok, defeat that enemy. See WoL? You learned that thing's magic. Also, here, your crystal stirrs or something, so you have magic someone else learned in the past to help you with your rotation".
You'd get the same thing. You'd skip the Learn mechanic, but personally that's okay. Things don't need to be directly translated, and things don't need to always be gimmicky. And you'd preserve the flavour of the class (one of using enemy skills in combat).

"Oh but their skills would be too broken"
Yeah, well, DRK usually uses their HP to use skills and we don't have that. Now hush. We can be creative for once. :P