Red Mage use Casting gear!!

[St0rmchild]

I think they will share gear with the other two casters.

Why ?
Because adding another new gear category would dilute the loot pool too much.
Right now there are 7 sets combat of gear:

- Tank (PLD/WAR/DRK)
- Healer (WHM/SCH/AST)
- Magic DPS (SMN/BLM)
- Ranged DPS (BRD/MCH)
- Dragoon
- Monk
- Ninja

That's 6 pieces (head, body, hands, waist, legs, feet) times seven sets is 42 different armor loot items. At 2 loot items per chest, that's already a fairly small chance of getting an item you can use. Increasing that number of sets would only decrease the chance even more - if you think you currently have to grind a lot to get your preferred drop, think again.

Even if loot is restricted to a choice from 3 pieces per chest (as in the current 24 man raids, that's still 21 different items of which 2 get picked per chest =)

So for eminently practical reasons, I can understand the upcoming jobs sharing gear with existing jobs -- and I highly suspect any future jobs will end up doing the same!