FOOD FOR THOUGHT: Will Red Mage be just like astrologian? A fusion between SMN & Blm.

[Kotemon]

Apparently the majority of those remembering RDM are remembering only 2/3rds of the actual class. ....... Tank RDM: To me, a Tank RDM would actually be more along the lines of V's Mystic Knight.

As I recall, Red Mage was just a general all-round filler for a 4 man party in Final Fantasy. It also only had access to some of the low teir spells of White and Black and even then it was a smaller spell list (about half). A light DPS that swung between a backup nurse for the White Wiz or spell caster for the Black Wiz. The shield was just to boost its defense due to the turn based system it used.


If anything something closer to the Mystic Knight/Sword Mage/Rune Fencer would be more tanky. It also wouldn't have mush of ranged magics aside from something like scathe/ruin. If anything taking the cross skills from Thm and Acn would fill out almost all its magic spells and set it as RDM-like with offence and healing magics, and force you to choose between both cross class abilities since they are all useful to some extent. Otherwise as a tank it'll take from Gld/War cause it'll need those skills.

[MaethusXion]

As I recall, Red Mage was just a general all-round filler for a 4 man party in Final Fantasy. It also only had access to some of the low teir spells of White and Black and even then it was a smaller spell list (about half). A light DPS that swung between a backup nurse for the White Wiz or spell caster for the Black Wiz. The shield was just to boost its defense due to the turn based system it used.

Dunno if they made RDM physically stronger in the remakes(never did a 4RDM party on the NES version), but I've done a couple RDM parties with the PS remakes. Yeah, aside from the skills not being the same as the full Fighter/White Mage/Black Mage it was fairly decent. Though, again, single player games. Heck, you could go almost full attack with a WHITE MAGE/WIZARD...

[Kotemon]

Dunno if they made RDM physically stronger in the remakes(never did a 4RDM party on the NES version), but I've done a couple RDM parties with the PS remakes. Yeah, aside from the skills not being the same as the full Fighter/White Mage/Black Mage it was fairly decent. Though, again, single player games. Heck, you could go almost full attack with a WHITE MAGE/WIZARD...

It was not easy especially with only a few good stuff to equip across the board so to many duplicate jobs would not be top tier. The best I could recall setting all characters as the same class was akin playing in hard or ex mode.

I discovered after a long time of rarely making it to the end and fighting the boss. You can 1 shot Chaos with BRAK.