Red Mage, again?

[MilesSaintboroguh]

There's this little thing calle a Keeper's Hymn you can buy for 250 seals at your GC Hq. Trade in one piece of i160 from your expert roulette and you can buy 3. 'Nuff said about the SCH/SMN issue.

But the point is you shouldn't have to be doing that every single time. That's just a lazy band aid fix to ignore the problem at hand.

[ChazNatlo]

Which makes them a great Tank. There is no such thing as a person who can do everything in this game unfortunately.

He would be either underpowered and nobody would want one, or overpowered and he would replace everyone if he could be everything.

I'd typically assume that a Tank would need to be a master of tanking.

But the point is you shouldn't have to be doing that every single time. That's just a lazy band aid fix to ignore the problem at hand.

Also that while that is annoying, the issue with the split classes is balancing them, not playing them.

[SendohJin]

I'd typically assume that a Tank would need to be a master of tanking.

not really? there are 3 tanks now. PLD takes the least physical damage, DRK takes the least magical damage, WAR does the most damage of the 3 tanks, and all of them can tank everything and not die. how are any of them masters of tanking?

[ChazNatlo]

not really? there are 3 tanks now. PLD takes the least physical damage, DRK takes the least magical damage, WAR does the most damage of the 3 tanks, and all of them can tank everything and not die. how are any of them masters of tanking?

I confess I anticipated this.

When a person says "Jack of all trades, master of none" they usually don't mean that the person is able to be as good as anything that isn't the absolute paragon of it's art.

When I say "Master of tanking" I'm referring to the fact that the classes are within the level of excellence, not that they are first among equals. They are sitting with fellow masters. By contrast to say, a Dragoon, that can survive tanking longer than a Black Mage, but is not a master of it. ((Que "Unless they're tanking the floor" jokes))

I should clarify that whatever the role it is, it'll need to be optimized to that role, so "Jack of all trades, master of none." isn't going to be apt in a system which features specified roles. I don't think Redmage Can't be a tank ((Though I confess it is an odd fit)) I just don't think "A tank works great as a master of none." is a good argument.

[SendohJin]

I should clarify that whatever the role it is, it'll need to be optimized to that role, so "Jack of all trades, master of none." isn't going to be apt in a system which features specified roles. I don't think Redmage Can't be a tank ((Though I confess it is an odd fit)) I just don't think "A tank works great as a master of none." is a good argument.

no, it's not a great argument. but a tank is best equipped to be a jack of all trades, DPS has to sacrifice Healing, Healers have to sacrifice DPS. what WARs are right now is closest to how RDM should function.