SAMURAI SHOWDOWN

[EdwinLi]

You should consider being a lawyer with how you interpret things lol. How someone sees reworking the armor in FFXIV specifically around RDM out of "implementing jobs to adequately fit roles" while supposedly not ignoring the previous "we aren't setting out to radically change jobs just for the sake of being different" is completely beyond me, but more power to you.

They are not changing a Job if the foundation and lore of the Job is still there in the FF14 version. Both Samurai and Red Mage can be either Tank or DPS without affecting the lore behind the two jobs.

If you're relating that quote to gameplay of a Job alone that is something we should not go deep into as the only way to know the gameplay of a Job in FF14 is if it is already released or shown. It is only then when we know if they have radically changed the job's gameplay to be different.

However, that has already happend with Machinist as it was originally intended to have a unique mechanic involving Weapon Modifications but was scrapped and changed into what it is now.