Aegis > RUN

[Hayward]

*Yawn* Doesn't rambling on and on about what job is useless get old with you professional endgamers?

I've actually played the job, unlike you worthless theorycrafters from the forum that shall go unnamed, and see RUN as good in what it was DESIGNED to do: take magic damage that other jobs couldn't take and minimize any magical damage they might otherwise take.

Taking Physical Damage is mainly a Paladin thing. Magical Damage is Rune Fencer's calling card. Could RUN use some Job Traits and/or gear (beyond Dux Scale mail, of course) to make it more solid? I'd certainly take it, but don't come on these forums with dishonest comparisons in some attempt to foment more job discrimination than is already in this game.

[Kojo]

*Yawn* Doesn't rambling on and on about what job is useless get old with you professional endgamers?

I've actually played the job, unlike you worthless theorycrafters from the forum that shall go unnamed, and see RUN as good in what it was DESIGNED to do: take magic damage that other jobs couldn't take and minimize any magical damage they might otherwise take.

Taking Physical Damage is mainly a Paladin thing. Magical Damage is Rune Fencer's calling card. Could RUN use some Job Traits and/or gear (beyond Dux Scale mail, of course) to make it more solid? I'd certainly take it, but don't come on these forums with dishonest comparisons in some attempt to foment more job discrimination than is already in this game.

[Zagen]

Magical Damage is Rune Fencer's calling card.

So where are all the single element magical damage dealing no/minimal melee damage dealing mobs that would allow it to shine above even Aegis as the superior magical tank?

You could argue well the AF/Relic/Emp/Mythic/Merits are all missing but all of that will have to address the fact that when something casts multiple elemental damage types and deals high physical damage RUN's capabilities go to the OP's point of Aegis > RUN.

[Duelle]

*Yawn* Doesn't rambling on and on about what job is useless get old with you professional endgamers?

I've actually played the job, unlike you worthless theorycrafters from the forum that shall go unnamed, and see RUN as good in what it was DESIGNED to do: take magic damage that other jobs couldn't take and minimize any magical damage they might otherwise take.

Which is therefore one of the weakest niche designs you could use on a job that is essentially supposed to tank.

It'd be one thing if RUN, PLD and NIN had perks on top of being viable tanks for content, with PLD being sword and board, NIN being shadows and dodge and RUN being able to absorb/mitigate magic better than either. What appears to be the problem is that the job is seemingly designed to mitigate magic and only magic. And even then, as pointed out earlier, it is rather clunky.