Quote Originally Posted by Peregrine View Post
You mistake FFXI's difficulties as unique to it. It's the same across any MMO in which your job in part defines who you are, which is mroe true to FF than in any other MMO. Red mage is a terrible idea: A mediocre mage and a mediocre meleer is what it is online.
You're going off-topic, but why else do you think I have to spam these boards every couple of posts and have RDM-related stuff in my sig? I'm hoping it gets through the developers' heads that design like Red Mage's is bad in an MMO context.
Marauders are the red mages of this game. Mediocre tanks, mediocre DD. In straddling the fence, they end up castrating themselves.
Again, it won't be a problem if there are mechanics in place that allow a MRD to specialize in damage or specialize in tanking while keeping both possible roles separate from one another. FFXIV doesn't have to copy WoW's talent system to achieve this, by the way.