Samurai & Red Mage cross skills

[Alyshia]

Only Samurai was ever "confirmed". Red Mage is just in your head. And expanded classes have no attachment to other core classes as we've seen. Hopefully they continue to steer away from generic classes. Red Mage is about as generic as it gets. Some type of Magic Swordsman melee dps/caster would be more interesting.

[Lemuria]

Red Mage is about as generic as it gets. Some type of Magic Swordsman melee dps/caster would be more interesting.

You mean... like a red mage? Taken from the context of FFXI, Red Mage supplemented their melee damage with enchantment spells (Enfire, Enthunder etc), and they could cast curative and destructive magic. Don't get hung up on the name, it's the mechanics which are more important.

That said, I have a feeling that future classes are going to go down a similar route to Dark Knight, Machinist and Astrologian. That is, they will start as jobs, have zero cross-class skills and begin at level 30. Personally, I find that disappointing as cross-class skills are the bread-and-butter of being able to customise a class at the moment. We don't really have much in the way of specialisation or customisation, so some new classes with some decent cross-class skills would be nice.