On Red Mage melee...

[saevel]

RDM can't solo some of the DNC / NIN solo's or even MNK due to evasion being too low. Most of those guys solo is just stacking massive evasion / counter and letting the NM whiff at you all day long.

[Greatguardian]

RDM can't solo some of the DNC / NIN solo's or even MNK due to evasion being too low. Most of those guys solo is just stacking massive evasion / counter and letting the NM whiff at you all day long.

Uh, I'm not entirely sure where you're trying to come from with this but it's not like Red Mage is sitting around letting things attempt to hit it during solos anyways. There is no need for an evasion check when the monster is unable to swing.

Red Mage can and has solo'd quite damn near everything in Scars+Visions, and I'm sure it can solo damn near everything in Heroes aside from Ule Ironclad, Rani, and a few other NMs that don't take well to being alive for longer periods of time. Pinning has been recognized by the Development and GM staff as a legitimate tactical maneuver, and, anyone who actually understand what it is and how it works knows this, can require serious player attention and skill to pull off properly over long fights.

Red Mage can solo damn near everything in the game because it's so damn hard to kill. Not only do they have movement speed, Fast Cast Utsusemi, and full access to awesome PDT/MDT armor, but they can also damage monsters from a distance without ever getting within striking range.

There were plenty of reports of Red Mage solos of high level NMs post-Abyssea Era on BG, and I have personally solo'd damn near everything in Visions+Scars myself on Red Mage. The only reason myself and, I'd imagine, others stopped doing this was that there was very little point in taking 20 minutes to solo something when you can just get a mule or a friend and proc/kill the monster in 2 minutes with 5x the drops.