NEEDED Disciple of Magic DPS Jobs

[Kling-Klang]

I agree, I would love a good magic dps finally.
I try to like BLM and SMN but both playstyles arent that fun to me, BLM with the new 60 skills is a bit too stressful often (for me) and I really dislike the SMN pets.
So a new magic dps would be really great.

[Dreamsoap]

Time Mage?

No, pirate mage. Uses an anchor. Does highest dps when drunk.

[Exiled_Tonberry]

Time Mage?

AST is technically time mage.

[Thunda_Cat_SMASH]

Red Mage is coming in 4.0, a potential magic DPS job (I hope a melee caster ^^)

Red mage tank, plz! ;u; I rather not see my suave swashbuckling fencer as a dps, and I don't think it even fits as one.

[Korbash]

Red mage tank, plz! ;u; I rather not see my suave swashbuckling fencer as a dps, and I don't think it even fits as one.

When I played Warhammer Online some of the mages classes I played there were melee range mages using a melee weapons and using magic and bashing mobs at the same time. There is nothing conflicting with using magic and bash mobs with a swashbucling fence as a DPS mage. Not all the mage classes are squishie with light armor and stay in the background.

[Kazrah]

I have a better idea.

How about a caster with one spell. That's it. Just one spell. Every other skill it would get would alter the next time that spell is cast in a certain way (i.e. make it a dot, an aoe, make it do triple damage, etc.).

I also left something about a Blue Mage somewhere on these forums.... (#shamelessplug)

[Xiao_]

Gun Mage

i understand what you're getting at but this breaks my heart because i wish we had actual gunmage

[ADVSS]

well i take it that they will make it an int based melee caster, i would hope more range than ninja but ya know. looks like they treat all range the same you get magic range/int and physical range/dex. Its kind of funny, that most of the support these days is all dex, even ninja. maybe they will swippity swap it with rdm and make him lower dmg than ninja but offering support akin to brd mch. As a caster though , melee even, i would like the aoe thing to be good, good aoe, even for a melee. since thats kinda what were missing more than anything outside the very rigid box(besides a medium range [close combat with range]).

[Norleas]

Well if RDM isn't a dps class then it's most likely gonna be a magic tank job, which I think will be pretty awesome. Or even possibly somehow a mixture of healing and dps (since I can't imagine it being full-on healing like what we have now).

[Naunet]

I don't disagree with you and I'd love to see some more casters but the question is what kind of caster could they add? We have the DoT based caster that builds to a backloaded burst and a spell based caster that's more about front loaded burst.

I dunno, Rift did pretty good in providing a fairly wide variety of caster mage souls. The possibilities are out there. I think some kind of Void-related necromancy-like class could be pretty cool.

Class variety can come just as much from different flavors as it can in the variety of mechanics, as well. I mean, WAR and DRK play pretty darn similar and yet they're different classes.