Quote Originally Posted by VanilleFang View Post
What? How? Traditionally Red Mages have had lower maximum HP than Black Mages, and have never equipped anything above light armour.
What red mages have you been using...? They've never been worse than a black mage defensively. They're a hybrid in all aspects, physical and magical.

They'd probably be the best option for a mage-tank, except for, like...blue mage, and the team already said there'd be difficulty faithfully adding it in, IIRC.