Red Mage (Tank) Please!

[Nektulos-Tuor]

I'd be ok with it as either a tank or dps(more in the support dps side analgous to brd/mch) but really hope it's not a healer.

I think support/utility dps (give it some combo of: instant cast procs for magic off of a weapon combo/cast times for fighting from range, enspells, enspikes, some light healing/battle raise/tp&mp refresh) is the best option, as I'd rather see blue mage take the mana tank role.

We already have Bard and Machinist.

And.. Yoshi P said originally he was considering Samurai or Dark as the next tank, they went with Dark but i imagine sam will still be a tank.

Funny, I heard they were gonna be DPS. Also, why do we have another two-handed sword Tank?

[Blood-Aki]

We already have Bard and Machinist.

And we already have Paladin, Dark Knight and Warrior. As i said, we don't need another tank, over the obvious caster choice, You do understand the 3 vs 2 ratio, right?

If anything Blue mage would take this role anyway, Not RDM.

[SinisterJointss]

And we already have Paladin, Dark Knight and Warrior. As i said, we don't need another tank, over the obvious caster choice, You do understand the 3 vs 2 ratio, right?

If anything Blue mage would take this role anyway, Not RDM.

This one gets it

[ckc22]

We already have Bard and Machinist.

Yeah and we have 5 other dps...

[Saggo]

I'd cry a little if RDM was only just a tank, but that's just me.

You could only do that if the DPS held back. Even 'proper' tanks had difficulty holding back aggro from many DPS in the late game simply because of the crazy damage they could output. Red Mage wasn't terrible in the aggro stakes, but there wasn't much enmity gear to go around for them, and they had limited strength since you would basically NEED sub war for provoke which killed some of your magical potential.

Enmity was an issue for every single tank, since it had a hard ceiling and DDs eventually overgeared compared to that ceiling.

As for RDM tanking, it boiled down to RDM/NIN for shadows and rotating cures and debuffs. Rotating debuffs for enmity was so good that SE nerfed the hell out of to end that practice. Sub WAR was only ever for goofing around or certain melee builds.

[Zeonx]

watch redmage be a support job.

[Natandalus]

I wouldn't say in FFXI that red mage was a tank. It was more of a kiter/soloer it had some utility for tanking but so does ninja in FFXIV with a damage down ability. It being called a tank is a terrible idea it will likely be a caster but i hope it will be a magic melee dps that i think would be interesting.

[Natandalus]

And.. Yoshi P said originally he was considering Samurai or Dark as the next tank, they went with Dark but i imagine sam will still be a tank.

[Caidyn]

Nah.

Melee/caster hybrid DPS, where it belongs. We have enough tanking jobs at the moment. If anything, with the current raiding format, a new Healer would be more welcome.

RAID JOBS
3 Tanks 3 Tanks
6 Healers 3 Healers
14 DPS 7 DPS

Let's get some variety out there. There's a lot of great potential in these new jobs.

[AylmerOfFamfrit]

I'd be ok with it as either a tank or dps(more in the support dps side analgous to brd/mch) but really hope it's not a healer.

I think support/utility dps (give it some combo of: instant cast procs for magic off of a weapon combo/cast times for fighting from range, enspells, enspikes, some light healing/battle raise/tp&mp refresh) is the best option, as I'd rather see blue mage take the mana tank role.

I agree with the Blu tank statement but only if the developed it correctly. The only thing is Yoshi-p said that the way the game is designed it would be too much of a challenge to consider.