Poll: Which of these FF jobs would you like to see added to XIV the most?

[Mimilu]

Link to poll

Once again, this is a poll just for fun. >///3///> ♥

For those who haven't played an FF with a Job System:

Beastmaster: Controls animals. Usually a physical class.
Blue Mage: Learns spells and skill from enemies. Known as Vampire in Bravely Default and Catmancer in Bravely Second.
Chemists: Uses items. Usually can use items more proficiently and can mix items for crazy results. Also known as Alchemist or Salve-Maker.
Corsair: Pirates with gambling buffs and guns. From XI only.
Dancer: Uses dances for things. Sometimes buffs, sometimes debuffs. Most famous are XI's, which was a jack-of-all-trades, and Tactics', which was a debuffer.
Fencer: Physical job that uses swords (especially Rapiers) and usually debuffs things.
Geomancer: Mage that usually involves the environment with their magic.
Green Mage: Mage that focuses on buffs and debuffs.
Hunter/Ranger: Archers. May have traps or even summon animals.
Mystic Knight/Rune Fencer/Spell Fencer: Puts magic on their blades and/or themselves, usually elemental spells, sometimes debuffs.
Necromancer: Uses dark magic and the dead
Puppetmaster: Fights alongside a puppet. From XI.
Red Mage: Can use Black/Offensive Magic, White/Healing-and-supportive Magic, and Physical Attacks. Jack-of-all-trades class. Mentioning XI can cause a war...
Samurai: Uses Katana, wears heavy armor, and sometimes throws gil at enemies (for god knows why)
Viking: HINGA-DINGA-DURGEN

[ErdrickLoto]

I voted Mystic Knight/Spell Fencer, since that seems like it would fit the concept of "magic-using tank" more than Red Mage (though I wouldn't be surprised if Red Mage was used for the name).

[Thunda_Cat_SMASH]

Red mage tank. Naturally.

[LioJen]

Mystic Knight / Spell Fencer / Rune Fencer / whatever they want to call it in Eorzea. As a tank of course.

[Lilseph]

Even though it's almost ALMOST confirmed by SE, I'd like to have a RDM. The idea of a tank using magic and fencing skills sounds pretty charming.

[Blackcanary]

Red mage tank. Naturally.

Red Mage would not make a good Tank. It should be a DPS job.

[Blackcanary]

Voted for Beast Master.

[Lilseph]

Red Mage would not make a good Tank. It should be a DPS job.

Huh? Why not? o_O

[Mimilu]

Current Results:

Out of 167 votes

1. Dancer at 34 votes (20% of the vote)
2. Mystic Knight/Rune Fencer/Spell Fencer at 25 votes (15%)
3. Red Mage at 22 votes (13%)
4. Samurai at 20 votes (12%)
5. Blue Mage at 15 votes (9%)
6. Necromancer at 11 votes (7%)
7. Puppetmaster at 8 votes (5%)
8-9. Beastmaster at 7 votes (4%)
8-9. Chemist at 7 votes (4%)
10-11. Corsair at 5 votes (3%)
10-11. Viking at 5 votes (3%)
12. Green Mage at 3 votes (2%)
13-14. Geomancer at 2 votes (1%)
13-14. Hunter/Ranger at 2 votes (1%)
15. Fencer at 1 vote (>1%)

[Lambdafish]

Huh? Why not? o_O

Because traditionally RDM has no traits whatsoever that would make it viable as a tank. It is a DPS swordsman (fencer at that) that uses offensive black magic and healer white magic. XI broke the trend by giving it support abilities (still not tank) and having it fill a support role with refresh, haste, slow etc.

The ONLY time that RDM has been a tank is very loosely in XI. When people say that RDM could be a tank in XI, they are highly exaggerating this fact, and its about equivilent to having a WAR go DPS in this game, or having a SMN tank with titan.

It is not impossible for RDM to be a tank (after all DRK was, and that is the least tank-like job I can think of) but it would involve such a bastardisation of the jobs core that it would no longer be RDM anymore.

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You should really have omitted RDM from this poll as it has been all but confirmed at the NA fan fest (scarlet witch, yoshi P is fooling nobody)