Worthless on every conceivable level.
I'm not a fan of blue mages in the first place, but having all these conditions in the way so that getting spells becomes a chore, and making the character a fucking failurepile makes me wish for a fast forward feature in videogames.
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Well, the traditional blue mage is not that bad; you just either have to a) not die or b) remember to resurrect that character before the end of the battle to ensure that the blue mage learned a new spell from a monster when s/he got hit by that special spell. Nonetheless, the fact the Quina has to eat the monster to learn its abilities and then also the mob has to be under 20% health was pretty hard to accomplish (especially the uber monsters that you'd actually want spells from!) as I had a tendancy to just kill the darn thing before Quina can pull out her fork and knife to finish it off.
Jam it back in, in the dark.
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