Fencer And Red-Mage - New Tank Class Suggestion

[Enkidoh]

Careful you'll confuse people if you use Final Fantasy's actual spell naming conventions, need to number them.

Cynical much? No offense, but that sort of comment clearly gives away having only played a FF game made after 1998 and then making the incorrect assumption all FF games were like that, which was not the case. The original English language versions of FFI, IV, VI and VII all used numbers to show spell potency/tiers instead of the stupid 'ra','ga','ja', 'na' system (the later only appeared as standard in the English language versions with FFVIII), which is exactly the reason why FFXIV does the same. Yes it might be now a modern tradition, but then this game has more in common with FFI and FFXI than modern FF titles like FFXIII so I digress (FFXI after all used both).

As for the OP's post, Fencer ironically was actually considered as a starting class for version 1.0 but was ultimately never added (although references to 'fencing' skill still existed in 1.0's files but were dummied out and never used). So it is definitely possible if SE does decide to continue to use 'starting class and then upgrade to Job; rather than the stupid classless 'Extra Jobs' Heavensward had, FNC is a good a class as any for RDM.