Red Mage as possible new tank class

[Gandora]

DRK soul crystal equip effect: renames shield lob to weapon lob, renames shield bash to weapon bash

Why make things simple when we can make them difficult, right guys? Especialy when Shield Lob is a job ability learned throu a quest, logic?

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While most you say in the 2nd paragraph can be correct to some extends, can you tell me what would be the point of making a new tank with nearly the same attributes as the already existing tanks?

We have 2 damage mitigation tank doing it their own way, why would we need a third one? Now we need evasion & magical damage mitigation tanks.

This is where "again" the whole "DRK will come back as a tank" logic fall.

Also, as someone said, Red Mage =/= tank in anyway until its strongly backed up. I did RDM/NIN tank before in XI, it was easily possible because of RDM Haste Phalanx Refresh Fast Cast Stoneskin & Utsusemi. Unless the Dev team do something as reliable as that I don't see how it could be possible.


Right now we need some kind of buffer & somes DDs.