Red Mage as possible new tank class

[Sephirah]

Making them tanks as their *only* role (which is what jobs are; FFXIV is a game where jobs have a single role; a *class* could have multiple, like the ACN, but, unless RDM is a class rather than a job, which is doubtful because BLM and WHM aren't) requires too much of a deviation from their core concept, just like it does with Ninja.

If they did add it as a class instead of a job, it might be interesting to see what they could turn it into. Perhaps going 30 GLD 15 RDM would make a Mystic Knight for tanking, or RDM 30 and ARC 15 would be more the "Red Wizard" route.

There is also still the possibility of it being added as an "advanced" job (combining whm/blm), but so far that has only been confirmed as something they are considering.

[Kitru]

There is also still the possibility of it being added as an "advanced" job (combining whm/blm), but so far that has only been confirmed as something they are considering.

I still find the idea of an "advanced job" somewhat dubious, mainly because it either compounds the number of potential end options or implies that you're going to have *very* few real combinations. I also begs the question of how they would work, given that the existing jobs provide 5 abilities, and that's it, right now.