Red Mage (Tank) Please!

[Nektulos-Tuor]

Yeah I just got told. I am so wrong. I believe that it may be a dps melee class. Hybrid is just not going to happen. I think it would be something like Genesis in ff7 where he can light his sword up.

That is why I said Tank, it makes sense most to the game. Rapier is a dueling weapon as well. There are no hybrids in the game and Red Mages do everything.

If RDM tanking become a thing I would like them to have a different tanking style compared to the 3 tanks we have now. Similar to how a physical melee is different from a caster or physical ranged, maybe make RDM has off GCD skills for tanking rather than combos.

Yeah, I wanted him to "cast spells" in melee. Immune to interrupts of course.

We'll no. It really doesn't. That role makes more sense for Rune Fencers, Mystic Knights, or Spellblades, infusing magic for defense and damage. You strip RDM down to defensive earthy stuff or whatever and it loses its identity more than DRK did being shoehorned into a tank. It'd be a Rune Fencer with a different name.

If RDM is introduced as a tank, it's because SE first wanted a tank and then shoved whatever name they wanted on it, not because of some great affinity the job has for it. It'd be even more egregious than wanting a tank and shoving a DRK.

Well, I don't really take the "No it doesn't, because it doesn't."

I could see Rune Fencers, Mystic Knights, Spellblades all being DPS. However Red Mage makes most sense because a Red Mage would actually study spells like that and know how to use them defensively because a Red Mage is usually a hybrid of all things.