Predictions for job(s) in the next expansion?

[EdwinLi]

Balancing and Meta aside, you are essentially suggesting a second sword enchanting caster for the roster. This is akin to suggesting another Holy Healer, or suggesting another healer be brought in that uses a fairy or pet to heal.

That is if you are a person that defines Red Mage as a Sword Enchanting Caster.

For me, in my opinion, Red Mage is not a Sword Enchanting Caster because the focus of the combat is to use the Orb to cast spells for Primary combat.

The sword aspect is a release of excessive energy the Red Mage has built up from those spells. 90% of Red Mage attacks treat the Sword more as a part of a Rod with the Orb being the head of the Rod as well.

A real Sword Enchanting Caster Job is one that focus on using the Sword as a Primary with majority of the 1,2, 3 and etc attack and off-cooldown attack about using the sword itself to actually attack the enemy even if it means creating Magical Energy Slash attacks to attack them from range.

Unless something changes in maybe 6.0 or beyond, Red Mage is not, in my opinion, a Sword Enchanting Caster Job due to the nature of how the weapon is more of a Rod that has been split into two piece by design.

This is also why in my opinion it is not "akin to suggesting another Holy Healer, or suggesting another healer be brought in that uses a fairy or pet to heal" due to how different in what the two Jobs will primarily focus on when it comes to the use of their weapons and method of using those weapons.


However, as I said everything we say now will not determine what the new Jobs in 6.0 is since it is most likely already finished and the only thing left for Yoshi-P and the development team is to reveal them either after 5.4, 5.5, or 5.55.