Jobs you would like to see fundamentally changed?

[HumanNinjaToo]

Are there any jobs out there that you would like to see completely revamped? Shout out some ideas, I'm super curious to see what you all have in mind.

I would love to see Red Mage fully turned into a pure melee battlemage class, with a hybrid of magically buffed physical dps and black mage style rotations. En-fire/elemental type spells to buff their weapons, and maybe buffing teammates weapons as well for support.

This seems like a completely oxymoronic idea, lol, a "pure hybrid". But I get what you mean.

I would like to see the dark knight be an actual dark knight. So far what I am seeing is just another tank. I think it should be a DPS that relies on self-sacrifice to dish out mega damage! Maybe in a perfect world... I won't get my hopes hope.

[Jasmyne]

This seems like a completely oxymoronic idea, lol, a "pure hybrid". But I get what you mean.

I would like to see the dark knight be an actual dark knight. So far what I am seeing is just another tank. I think it should be a DPS that relies on self-sacrifice to dish out mega damage! Maybe in a perfect world... I won't get my hopes hope.

Oh yah true that's kinda dumb, but I like your idea. Maybe if they kept it a tank it would gain more defenses as its health decreases, which would be scary for a healer but would require people to work around the diversity of different classes in the group and I really like that concept. The only problem I see with that is it would make shields even more valuable, and the whole scholar/ast meta would be even more important.

But changing drk into a DPS? That would be so cool, it would possibly share dps heavy armor with dragoon since drg seems so lonely there with its armor sets. I genuinely believe we have way too many tanks that do almost the exact same thing so that would be a really neat and unexpected change.

[HumanNinjaToo]

Oh yah true that's kinda dumb, but I like your idea. Maybe if they kept it a tank it would gain more defenses as its health decreases, which would be scary for a healer but would require people to work around the diversity of different classes in the group and I really like that concept. The only problem I see with that is it would make shields even more valuable, and the whole scholar/ast meta would be even more important.

But changing drk into a DPS? That would be so cool, it would possibly share dps heavy armor with dragoon since drg seems so lonely there with its armor sets. I genuinely believe we have way too many tanks that do almost the exact same thing so that would be a really neat and unexpected change.

I hope you didn't interpret me saying your idea was dumb, sorry if that's how it came across. I just meant the term 'pure hybrid' because the words counteract each other linguistically. I am of the mind, however, that a red mage relies on black and white magic, maybe more so on physical damage like you mentioned. But buffing other's weapons seems out of sync with my own view on what a red mages role is. I would like to see them be able exploit enemy-type weaknesses though (i.e. extra damage versus beast type or flying type with the right self-buff). IDK, it seems a bit convoluted when I think about it...