How would you design Red Mage in FFXIV?

[Duelle]

red mage has no spells of its own it's a fighter/whm/blm, pls stop giving it skills it doesn't have.

The problem is that there's no other way for it to actually work if you want it to be a melee+magic job.

[Musashidon]

The problem is that there's no other way for it to actually work if you want it to be a melee+magic job.

i personally (and this is just my personal opinion) would rather have no redmage than some randomly made class with redmage job crystal slapped onto it.

redmage is a job that will never be mmo friendly because if made to well it would be the only needed class and if not made well enough it will be useless, then you got redmage with things a redmage wouldn't have and i don't want that at all.

[Duelle]

i personally (and this is just my personal opinion) would rather have no redmage than some randomly made class with redmage job crystal slapped onto it.

When you make the transition to MMORPG from RPG, there are concepts that will have to adapt or be dropped entirely. I've seen what mimicking FF1's Red Mage got us, and being told I was a hybrid only to find myself spamming the same 3 spells while having token enfeebles AND a bad reputation for having the potential to solo content that was not intended to be soloed simply tells me the job concept was not adapted. I know it can be done because I have seen properly designed melee/magic hybrids at play, so it's a matter of giving feedback, suggestions and in the case of our beloved pimp-hat-wearing magic fencer, pray that FFXIV's developers are aware of the discussions, threads and ideas for RDM design that have been tossed at SE since 2007.