What Roles would you like for Samurai and Red Mage?

[Blood-Aki]

I figured Red Mage would be a melee DPS with the ability to enchant their rapier with magic which would be their stances. Similar to Monk or Huton for Ninja, and cast close range magic similar to the signs from the Witcher series. I think that would work best for FFXIV, but who knows? Doesn't make much sense to have a sword if you're not going to use it.

If they follow the niche of how RDM has worked in past games it will most certainly untilize a sword with spells, My guess is enchanted swords magical damaging melee attacks, etc. this is why i said it will make the most sense, as since it is a mage it will follow caster dps or meele caster dps. some people want it to be a tank, which makes very little sense as rdm has never "tanked" before. and they don't even wear heavy armor.

[ChazNatlo]

If they follow the niche of how RDM has worked in past games it will most certainly untilize a sword with spells, My guess is enchanted swords magical damaging melee attacks, etc. this is why i said it will make the most sense, as since it is a mage it will follow caster dps or meele caster dps. some people want it to be a tank, which makes very little sense as rdm has never "tanked" before. and they don't even wear heavy armor.

See, that's sortof what I don't want, on the basis that it eats into the Sword Mage/Mystic Knight((My personal all time favourite class))'s niche. Sword AND magic, yes. Swords imbued with Magic, no.

[SendohJin]

some people want it to be a tank, which makes very little sense as rdm has never "tanked" before. and they don't even wear heavy armor.

in FF games only XI and XIV has real tanks, never tanked before is mostly irrelevant. there's also a first time for everything and FF games are about evolving the series not staying stagnant the entire time. NINs definitely didn't "tank" before XI and when players started doing that SE didn't nerf the hell out of them so they couldn't do it.

you don't need heavy armor to tank, FF games have this fancy thing we like to call magic.

[Duelle]

I figured Red Mage would be a melee DPS with the ability to enchant their rapier with magic which would be their stances. Similar to Monk or Huton for Ninja, and cast close range magic similar to the signs from the Witcher series. I think that would work best for FFXIV, but who knows?

RDM...and The Witcher? Hmm....anyone know if Geralt ever wore a pimp hat?

[Alexander_Dragonfang]

RDM...and The Witcher? Hmm....anyone know if Geralt ever wore a pimp hat?

Chances are.... Absolutely Yes.

[TruebladeNuke]

RDM...and The Witcher? Hmm....anyone know if Geralt ever wore a pimp hat?

I've been playing through The Witcher 3 (slowly) lately, and after reading this post, I just now got an image of Geralt wearing a Red Mage outfit.

lols were had.

[AlphaDragoon]

Samurai for melee DPS please. I'm hoping for more of the FFT Samurai/FFTA Parivir style, normal sized katana, wreck your face type of Samurai myself.

[silentwindfr]

the core mechanic of the melee dps is the combo and positional now, believe me i'm the first one to regret it, but Yoshida and it team still follow some data they have receive age ago while the V1. saying it's more fun to have positional and combo together.

that said, tons of idea for interesting dps was given, like a system that is freed of the combo with know making use of the FF11 skill chain system, but used by only one person, you do one skill followed by another, giving an effect as result. they can even farer by adding skill effect needed for obtain another one.

leading to a system where you need to know what the skill chain with another will give. that only one example of possible mechanic that can be used by the samurai, that is a jobs based on technic. making it part of the weaponskill system is the best way to do it (from my viewpoint)

try to add this to a tank, is not possible since it need to focus on the boss hate and survive, that why if you look closely the gameplay tie to the damage of the tank are soo bland actually.

for the dps, since they are freed of this role, they only have to deal damage, they need then to create a deeper system and gameplay for make the jobs less boring to play. that why even if it means more work, you see more dps role added than tank and healer.

[dekal]

read mage = melee dps
samurai = pure healer

[Cinicus]

Sam needs to be a DPS that gets bonuses for being face to face with the mob. It should share the maiming gear. Rdm sounds cool as melee magick dps or as magick tank.