Red Mage (Tank) Please!

[Nicobo]

I read some mentioned about RDM tanking in FF11. First you have to know why Ninja is a tank in FF11.

Ninja has a spell "utsusemi" which creates shadown images to absorb enemy attack, so keeps casting utsusemi I and II made it possible to tank. Of course, Ninja tanks must sub-job Warrior to access Provoke.

DEV explicitly said it was unexpected that NINJA was used as tank, they designed NINJA as a DD, but they let it be.

So any job sub-Job NINJA could cast "utsusemi" which had less image copies, and it would not enough to tank. Red Mage fast cast trait allowed casting "utsusemi" much faster with significant shorter recast timer, in addition Red Mage could generate aggro by self-healing or casting some high enmity spells (ie. Sleep) on the target.

But, that was just something like "ast solo heal x", "8war kill x"..etc, someone did it intentionally.
Actually RDM was paper weak and RDM was not a tank. ^^;