Mage melee gear

[Economizer]

A lot of those jobs already have melee gear. WHM has the Blessed set, which is oozing with haste. theres Zelus tiara, Goliard Saio, some of Nashira gear for certain jobs... Obvious none of those were designed with melee in mind but they all offer the most important melee stat, Haste. Then theres Add-on Gear which can be specialized for melee (most of its useless now anyway)

White Mage is also the sole job on the Magian clubs, there were the pirate cudgels, Auspice having that buff (pre-nerf it was even more amazing), and of course, Hexa Strike. Red Mage has enspells, Composure (accuracy buff in addition to obvious melee boosts), will get Temper and Gain-STR, has decent Sword and Dagger melee skills, and is on gear like the Atheling Mantle. Summoner's stats in general are far greater then they have to be, considering that they are just about useless for pets (to my knowledge), Summoner gets the same rank in Staff as MNK or WAR do, and unlike other spell-casters, doesn't cast spells that interrupt melee cycles all the time.

Granted, for all except the best geared of these, you won't be matching standard melee jobs, but for people to come into a thread about giving mage jobs melee gear is pretty insulting, especially when they come in here telling us about how we shouldn't be pigeonholing jobs. If a no defense damage dealer can solo something that wasn't meant to be killed solo, why can't other jobs?

This game is definitely played differently against super hard foes, so why can't it be played differently for the majority of stuff?

[Asymptotic]

BRD tends to be on things with WHM/SMN.

[Limecat]

I was always disappointed that WHM can't use Corselet and Corselet +1. They're not even super-heavy armor, just really fancy leather stuff!

[Economizer]

It would be interesting if White Mage was on the more defensive armors (by more defensive, I mean non-attack related) that Paladin is on... after all, White Mage is on Holy/Divine Breastplate, which is super heavy armor.

Limecat, what gear is the Mithra in your sig picture wearing?

[Karbuncle]

Those legs are made of Morion Worm skin.

I remember seeing that picture a long time ago. As for the body i think its Nobles.

[Limecat]

Yeah, the person who drew those comics/pictures is a friend of mine. One day she was lamenting how hard it was to finish her Morrigan's Slops, so I said SE should make a sort of -1 version that was easier to get and made from the skins of Morion Worms since the tathlums have +INT. And the mouth feelers had to stay on to give the pants tassels.

[Economizer]

And the mouth feelers had to stay on to give the pants tassels.

I didn't notice those until you said that.

So I presume the club is something generic?

[Limecat]

I didn't notice those until you said that.

So I presume the club is something generic?

Sorta. It's just the kind of thing I'd like to use as WHM. I spent several years with WHM as my only high-level job, so I've had to club a lot of critters to death to get things done.

[Razushu]

Sorta. It's just the kind of thing I'd like to use as WHM. I spent several years with WHM as my only high-level job, so I've had to club a lot of critters to death to get things done.

You.. monster!