Red Mage as possible new tank class

[Gandora]

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That look great, but CNJ already has a fast cast job ability. This is what lead me to think some of what have been said before is not viable. SE could make RDM a job coming from CNJ, but set it on the other side of BLM with Support spells.

The requierment could be to have CNJ30 & THM @ 15, or even vice-versa. This would be the simpliest way for SE to make it a support job imo.

This being said, it is also difficult to make a non tank job coming from GLA because of JA such as these requiring a shield "Shield Lob/bash." It would force the DEV team to give a shield to jobs that natively don't have one.

In order to make a new DD (assume DRK), the DEV team would have to either make a new class because it does not make sens to have them share the same gameplay as already existing class.

Even to make DRK a tank would be ridiculous, because:

a) DRK using GLA as base class would have acces to flash/Rampart and would make the PLD rather useless, it would have every traits a PLD have, on top of being able to absorb foe's life, that would be broken (and ludicrous for DRK to use flash as base JA.)

b) DRK with MRD as base class, would be an "enhanced WAR?" again able to use Flash as main JA & using BB combo to make/keep hate, Tomahawk & I pass. Nonsens here again, unless Storm's eye & Storm path get a significant boost when used by DRK

What would be the point of doing this, really? It wouldn't take long for SE to sinc under an ocean of complain because PLD & WAR became useless.

I mean, you can argue as much as you want about DRK being a tank in older FFs (which it was not, and which had acces to Dark Magic in FFX-2 as well as FFII) but in the end its down to FFXIV mechanics, where it would be more logical for it to be a DD.