Quote Originally Posted by OmegaNovaios View Post
Red Mage and Blue Mage are my favorite jobs of all time! I just really hope they don't get thrown under the bus by being based of current classes, particularly the lame GLA. It would suck to have such a lame setup of 50 Lvs and then only 5 unique actions for both jobs. I really hope SE makes a Fencer class and extends to both RDM and BLU off that with BLU equipping Scimitars instead.
Well, in a way, that's pretty much how the SCH functions. While I don't see Red Mage or Blue Mage coming out of Gladiator, it's still entirely possible that a job and it's role can work without a full complement of 17 abilities and 11 traits. Even then, Yoshi-P has said that he's willing to bend the rules of the armory system if it accomplishes the desired task; his given example was DRK coming from GLD, where they could do things like remove the bonus enmity on the various abilities in order to make it a viable DD job using abilities normally designed for tanking. Which they would have to do, as Arcanist is the only one seemingly built from the ground-up to accommodate both of it's associated jobs.