Think we'll get any Magic Tanks?

[Sylari]

I'll have to defer to Kitru's evaluation here. You have 5 offense-related abilities and 8 healing-related abilities (Cure/2/3, Medica/2, Protect, Raise, Esuna), plus the stance which is only meaningful for a character built with MND and class traits for MND and healing which are otherwise totally useless.

Oh no I certainly agree it wouldn't be clean or very nice... I just think it's not impossible. I mean in that same vein Arcanists have only one healing spell (and nine offensive ones) and the wrong trait stats too and I've heard a lot of WHMs lately grumbling about Scholar being the better designed healer.

Rdm was master of enhancing and enfeebling classes.

Not... really. RDM is all about being the two core mages spliced together on a halfassed fighter. It might lend itself to a bard-esque utility DPS, but playing at tank (or this notion of a buffer/debuffer) run counter to the class' normal themes.

[Nahara]

Rdm was master of enhancing and enfeebling classes.

Only in XI and that "mastery" was the bane of every Red Mage I've ever encountered. They hated the fact that a job that was usually the jack-of-all-trades mix of melee and magic was relegated to the back line as a debuffer and Refresh bot, because they were too squishy and dealt too little damage to put on the front lines. I'm pretty sure there'd be a similar riot if Square Enix forced Red Mage to, once again, be a back-line job.