Red Mage as possible new tank class

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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.

How does being a damage dealer prevent someone from using a shield or force them into being a tank? BLM and WHM both are capable of using shields and it's not like it spontaneously makes *them* tanks or stops them from doing their jobs. Since weapon damage is the same for both a 1h or 2h weapon of equal level, it's entirely possible to have a DPS class based off of GLA to use a shield because, if you're not a tank, shields are just stat blocks. Even Shield Slam, which requires you to be attacked, doesn't make it any less viable to give GLA a DPS job since PGL already has something that's pretty much the same: Haymaker.

A DPS job based off of GLA would really only slight reworking of the secondary effects of the baseline GLA job abilities: remove the high enmity tags from Savage Blade and Rage of Halone, (possibly) remove the STR debuff from Rage of Halone and replace it with something more DPS-y like a DoT, and change Flash from flat enmity to something like 100 potency. All of this is both possible and relatively simple given what the devs have said about turning GLA into DRK before. Honestly, the visual effects are more problematic than the mechanics, though that's just giving the attacks dark visual effects as opposed to the white/light visual effects, which isn't too far outside the realm of what was done with SCH. Flash would likely need a rename, too.

Even to make DRK a tank would be ridiculous

Only if you base if off of an existing tank job, and those aren't problems with DRK itself but rather with creating *any* job for a class that already has that role. Adding a new DPS job to ARC, THM, ACN, LNC, or PGL would present the *exact* same problems. A *new* tank class that uses DRK as its job wouldn't have any of the "crossover" problems.