Anyone else wish RDM was a PURE support class?

[Lemuria]

After Summoner and Dark Knight, I've resigned myself to the knowledge that there will never be a job that is truly faithful to the classics. Black Mage's only use three elements, white mage's come closest but somehow gained the ability to stone enemies to death as opposed to light based spells, like Dia, which would've made sense (and were in the pre-calamity FFXIV).

Red Mage should, arguably, be the ultimate hybrid. Their weapon should be swords, with the ability to both heal and cast black magic spells. They won't be, but that's really the whole point of this. A lot of jobs are just shadows of their namesake. Whatever they come up with will work with the current game meta, so I guess we'll just have to sit tight and wait to see if it's something that we want to play as.

[basketofseals]

After Summoner and Dark Knight, I've resigned myself to the knowledge that there will never be a job that is truly faithful to the classics. Black Mage's only use three elements, white mage's come closest but somehow gained the ability to stone enemies to death as opposed to light based spells, like Dia, which would've made sense (and were in the pre-calamity FFXIV).

Red Mage should, arguably, be the ultimate hybrid. Their weapon should be swords, with the ability to both heal and cast black magic spells. They won't be, but that's really the whole point of this. A lot of jobs are just shadows of their namesake. Whatever they come up with will work with the current game meta, so I guess we'll just have to sit tight and wait to see if it's something that we want to play as.

What exactly is not faithful with DRK? No cast from HP moves, but there's a couple drain ones, and DRK has always been one of the tankiest jobs.

[Tanathya]

What exactly is not faithful with DRK? No cast from HP moves, but there's a couple drain ones, and DRK has always been one of the tankiest jobs.

As I've always said, give DRK its signature ability, which is to spend HP to deal more damage (the definition of a tank), not the drains, and keep it a tank. Let's see how tanky DRK has always been.