Disciples of Magic Tanks/Melee

[Jinrya-Geki]

Will it ever be possible to have tanks, and melee jobs that fall under disciples of magic?

While ninja does use ninjistu, which is a form of magic. It still falls under Disciple of war.

[BlaiseArath]

Red Mage would probably be our only option in that regard... Possibly Runic Knight?

Unless they pull from a Tactics game or something where theres like 90 jobs I dont know about.

[Roxas_Andrade]

Someone said that dancer was a dps/support in ffxi and crushed my dreams, cuz i didn't know it.

I'd like dancer as as magic tank, They should have dances like Enmity [put your dance here], Regen [dance], Defense [dance], and such, like the bards songs. Of course you'd have to stand on the place for them to work and there should be a lot of other skils too. But it would be cool... :´-(

[Mirron]

Red Mage as a melee damage dealer. Works out pretty well. Only issue is that it also makes a lot of sense as a tank, but I think that they could just have Mystic Knight or some other variant as a tank. It's also possible (though doubtful with Astrologian being shown) that Dark Knight is a DoM Tank.

And Dancer seems like the best choice for a melee healer of sorts, if they ever do one that is.

[VanilleFang]

Is DRK going to be a DoW? I could see it being a DoM.

[Mirron]

I think it could go either way at this point. I'm hoping it's DoM, primarily because I only play those, but it could be DoW.

[Jinrya-Geki]

I think it could go either way at this point. I'm hoping it's DoM, primarily because I only play those, but it could be DoW.

Likewise, I only want to play DoM dps, so it really sucks there's only 2.

And I am terrible at being Smn, so technically I only play 1.

[Deifact]

Is DRK going to be a DoW? I could see it being a DoM.

it will most certainly be a DoW, i cant imagine a tank not being able to wear chain/plate mail. plus concept art definitely shows them wearing heavy armour.

[Garlyle]

A disciple of magic tank I don't exactly expect.

A disciple of magic melee DPS? Sure. As mentioned Red Mage - or even whatever they adapt Blue Mage into could fit in this (Given that most monster skills are user-based AoEs it could actually make sense).

Realistically I can see it having issues (Melee characters usually have to move more than mages, cutting out cast time; a melee caster would be locked out of autoattacking; and a few others), but it could be made to work.

[Mirron]

Likewise, I only want to play DoM dps, so it really sucks there's only 2.

And I am terrible at being Smn, so technically I only play 1.

I play healers, but yeah, currently I've only got four jobs overall, five once I get Astrologian. Kind of a disappointingly small number of DoM total. DoW has quite a bit more.

As for Dark Knight and not being able to wear chain/plate mail, depending on how exactly it works out they could just make the existing Tank armor able to be equipped by Dark Knights, or perhaps a special section of armor just for Dark Knights (as well as any future DoM tanks if we get any). It would seem a tad redundant, but it may be necessary depending on how the job is done. Not like we haven't had mages in FF that use armor after all.

Red Mage could be a melee DoM by relying on buffs to cast spells, and then going into melee to perform melee attacks/skills, probably using MP to perform things like Flame Strike or whatever you want to call them. It could also give them some utility if they can cast said spells on other party members. Just means they'd need to break away to cast the spells, though they might not even need to do that.