Red Mage: The one class that will be impossible to impliment

[Hiruke]

Your idea of an RDM couldn't be implemented, but why on earth would you think they would even want to do that to begin with? Just FYI, SCH is also traditionally a mix of WHM and BLM (as are MANY of the classic FF mage jobs), and SMN traditionally only, you know, summons. You'll note that FFXIV's SMN and SCH absolutely DO NOT follow that model. AT ALL.

I think, unless they are completely crazy, they will made RDM what many (most) people actually want: a magic swordsman. A frontline attacker/caster.

So, really, "the only way" SE could implement RDM is by making a stylized version of it, which is something you should expect for EVERY job in FFXIV. BRD in FFXIV isn't a traditional BRD, either. It's an MMO. Jobs must be robust, not flat like you can do in, say, Final Fantasy Tactics, where jobs only server a very very specific purpose.

[Morningstar1337]

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I said that ACN are the closest to RDM (along with THM).

First off I'm the only one I know who explicity wnats a Spellfencer class, and I though the gimmick of the red mage was the ability to use both Black and white magic (exclusibf classless games like KH or FFXII, those allow unlimited access to both schools of magic)

You have a point there, personally I think the Spellfencer/Magic Knight/Spellblade/Fencer/whatever class would the closest they can get (and only if they can get cure spells)

Level 4 isn't much of a grind really is it? Lol.

On topic though, they can easily just give it WHM/BLM spells, just not the strongest form as you said. They could even just give it a larger pool of cross class skills than other jobs to make up for a lack of unique abilities.

That could actually work. But the trade off would be having to grind 3/4 classes to get the most out of one.

Also I just used Raging Strikes as an example. anyone who actually thinks getting to 4 is a grind are just lazy.