RDM tanking(post your comments and thoughts on it here)

[Tamarsamar]

As much as I hate making posts on the bottom of the page, I figure making a new topic for this would be rather uncouth.

http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxi/threads/5950

Job Trait: Tranquil Heart
WHM Lv. 21
RDM Lv. 26
SCH Lv. 30

Reduces enmity gain when casting healing magic.

Well, it seems that, most unfortunately, the devs have spoken, and have decided to get rid of the one source of enmity that we had left.

Red Mage tanking was already depressingly dead. This is simply the final nail in the coffin.

[Glamdring]

Well, it seems that, most unfortunately, the devs have spoken, and have decided to get rid of the one source of enmity that we had left.

I don't know about the ONLY source, as a guy you might fight in a PVP if you cast Fire IV on me I WILL try to sink an axe into your forehead...

[Tamarsamar]

I don't know about the ONLY source, as a guy you might fight in a PVP if you cast Fire IV on me I WILL try to sink an axe into your forehead...

Only problem with that is that the conventional rules of enmity and tanking don't exactly apply in PVP.

And yes, strictly speaking our damage is also a source of enmity . . . but (assuming each job is going for damage) we should really only be out-damaging, what, Bards and (hopefully) White Mages? Which I suppose is passable if you're duoing with one of those jobs, but otherwise . . .

(Though there's not much reason for our damage to not be on par with the likes of Corsairs, Dancers, or Paladins . . .)