Another Red Mage Tank Idea

[Mimilu]

RDM does not use "shield" RDM has been protrayed as mainly a magical fencer, fencers use one handed rapiers, No shield. It's like giving a sword to a blm.

I thought giving RDM shield spells would allude to their nature as enchanters in various FF games, having access to both black and white magic.
RDM have three parts, melee, black magic, and white magic.
The shields and self-buffs represent white magic, the damaging spells are black magic, and the weapon skills are melee.

No..WE have 2 ranged casters, Which are Black mage and Summoner, BRD, MCH, are ranged PHYSICAL DPS. (which are also 2 by themsevles) There is a difference.

So we have 2 ranged casters 2 ranged DPS, 3 Tanks, 3 Healers, and 3 Melee DPS, to even that out, they would have to add another CASTER DPS or even ranged, But obviously since RDM is a magic based job, it will follow the caster family. it would make no sense to bring out a 4th tank job. that has no business tanking (due to how the job has been viewed and nothing they use supports tanking) You see now? It simply just makes little sense to do this.

Except both BRD and MCH get stances that up their DPS in exchange for cast times, i.e. like a caster. Just ask any veteran BRD, hitting level 52 changes the job completely, for better or worse.
And saying that RDM would go in a caster role is contradicting what you just said in your first point: RDM are magical fencers. It would make less sense to deny them all three parts of their repertoire: Melee, Black Magic, and White Magic.
Also the idea that RDM = Tank making little sense is purely your opinion.

Get in line with Nektulos-Tuor who also did the same thing, But he ended up just shooting down anyones opinion who didn't agree with him. and comeplty ignored what i just said to you about 4th tanking making no sense as well as a class that it makes no sense on. Nothing wrong with discussing it again, like so many people are doing, in another topic.. but much like Nektulos's idea, it won't work. Especially the way you want to work (evasion)

Like I said previously, when I meant Avoidance Tank, I mean they mainly use shield spells to avoid damage, with as much evasion and parrying support as any other tank would get.
And are you really one to talk about "shooting down anyone's opinion who doesn't agree with them and completely ignoring what was just said to them "?
Saying that making a 4th Tank makes no sense is just, for lack of a better word, stupid. They only have three roles in this game, why would they stop adding jobs to one of them? Especially when one role (DPS) has 7 jobs already, compared to Tank and Healer's 3?