Quote Originally Posted by Lemuria View Post
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.
Yes, it was a daunting task to say the least, damage had to hold back and RDM tanks were only, in most cases used in dire "hold this NM untill everyone gets here" situations so it wasn't Optimal, but it did work.