Red Mage (Tank) Please!

[ckc22]

I'd be ok with it as either a tank or dps(more in the support dps side analgous to brd/mch) but really hope it's not a healer.

I think support/utility dps (give it some combo of: instant cast procs for magic off of a weapon combo/cast times for fighting from range, enspells, enspikes, some light healing/battle raise/tp&mp refresh) is the best option, as I'd rather see blue mage take the mana tank role.

[Saggo]

I'd cry a little if RDM was only just a tank, but that's just me.

You could only do that if the DPS held back. Even 'proper' tanks had difficulty holding back aggro from many DPS in the late game simply because of the crazy damage they could output. Red Mage wasn't terrible in the aggro stakes, but there wasn't much enmity gear to go around for them, and they had limited strength since you would basically NEED sub war for provoke which killed some of your magical potential.

Enmity was an issue for every single tank, since it had a hard ceiling and DDs eventually overgeared compared to that ceiling.

As for RDM tanking, it boiled down to RDM/NIN for shadows and rotating cures and debuffs. Rotating debuffs for enmity was so good that SE nerfed the hell out of to end that practice. Sub WAR was only ever for goofing around or certain melee builds.

[Nektulos-Tuor]

I'd be ok with it as either a tank or dps(more in the support dps side analgous to brd/mch) but really hope it's not a healer.

I think support/utility dps (give it some combo of: instant cast procs for magic off of a weapon combo/cast times for fighting from range, enspells, enspikes, some light healing/battle raise/tp&mp refresh) is the best option, as I'd rather see blue mage take the mana tank role.

We already have Bard and Machinist.

And.. Yoshi P said originally he was considering Samurai or Dark as the next tank, they went with Dark but i imagine sam will still be a tank.

Funny, I heard they were gonna be DPS. Also, why do we have another two-handed sword Tank?

[Blood-Aki]

We already have Bard and Machinist.

And we already have Paladin, Dark Knight and Warrior. As i said, we don't need another tank, over the obvious caster choice, You do understand the 3 vs 2 ratio, right?

If anything Blue mage would take this role anyway, Not RDM.

[Zeonx]

watch redmage be a support job.

[SinisterJointss]

And we already have Paladin, Dark Knight and Warrior. As i said, we don't need another tank, over the obvious caster choice, You do understand the 3 vs 2 ratio, right?

If anything Blue mage would take this role anyway, Not RDM.

This one gets it

[Natandalus]

I wouldn't say in FFXI that red mage was a tank. It was more of a kiter/soloer it had some utility for tanking but so does ninja in FFXIV with a damage down ability. It being called a tank is a terrible idea it will likely be a caster but i hope it will be a magic melee dps that i think would be interesting.

[Natandalus]

And.. Yoshi P said originally he was considering Samurai or Dark as the next tank, they went with Dark but i imagine sam will still be a tank.

[Caidyn]

Nah.

Melee/caster hybrid DPS, where it belongs. We have enough tanking jobs at the moment. If anything, with the current raiding format, a new Healer would be more welcome.

RAID JOBS
3 Tanks 3 Tanks
6 Healers 3 Healers
14 DPS 7 DPS

Let's get some variety out there. There's a lot of great potential in these new jobs.

[AylmerOfFamfrit]

No, We were already disappointed (well i was anyway) that DRK, which should have been a DPS job was turned into a Tank. the LAST thing i want to see is a RDM tank..IF anything it needs to be a caster type.

If they are going to come up with a new tank job it needs to be something new or older game jobs, like Rune Fencer. (which would sound like a Rdm the way you are describing)

Dancer was a great melee healer in ffxi, Rdm could be a elemental based melee or we could use Geomancer like it was in Tactics. Sam in ffxi was a melee that could temp for the tank with certain abilities if stuff hit the fan. Love Samurai.