Roles for Samurai, Red Mage, Dancer

[SyzzleSpark]

Yoshi said he wants SAM to be a DD.

Also can someone explain the penchant some of the playerbase has for suggesting clothies as tanks? Mages and clothies are squishy i.e. not tanks.

[AlphaFox]

Yoshi said he wants SAM to be a DD.

Also can someone explain the penchant some of the playerbase has for suggesting clothies as tanks? Mages and clothies are squishy i.e. not tanks.

Personal spell like Protect (or tank stance) to increase defense to a good level, done. Its not so much we want a clothed mage, we just want something new for tanking. In almost every game played, I have never seen a straight up mage character tank (if you know one, please let me know, may be interested). I mean in a way, I'd imagine just like BLM with new spells and better defense but not as good in attacks....actually that does sound like a RDM.

[ADVSS]

Personal spell like Protect (or tank stance) to increase defense to a good level, done. Its not so much we want a clothed mage, we just want something new for tanking. In almost every game played, I have never seen a straight up mage character tank (if you know one, please let me know, may be interested). I mean in a way, I'd imagine just like BLM with new spells and better defense but not as good in attacks....actually that does sound like a RDM.

aye but tank armor is superior in magic defense compared to even mage armor in this iteration, not lying, its really sad, itd be easier to slap a magic tank in heavy armor, cause it defends magic better than robes even

my favorite version of a mage tank is dragon ages arcane warrior, btw, having a buff that allows it to use intellect as its str stat to wear heavy weapons and armor and limiting its max mp pool but allowing it to cast magic if it wants to go oomp. alot of this classes unction was to limit its mp pool for seemingly permanent buffs to tank better

http://dragonage.wikia.com/wiki/Arcane_Warrior

keep in mind they COULD do this for red mage, but the idea of a split jobs from a single class seems like a route they wont take again.
it would be a branching class femcer > Mystic knight (tank) Redmage(dps) post 30 would be the transition between caster blasts, or more enfire/barrier abilities. I dont see them doing this though. But i think it could work and would make the community less divided with the tank/dps redmage, id probably main and gear both even if their basic skllset was similar

[TarynH]

Also can someone explain the penchant some of the playerbase has for suggesting clothies as tanks? Mages and clothies are squishy i.e. not tanks.

In Final Fantasy 1, Red Mage could actually wear light armor (chainmail, etc.). In FFXI they can wear scale mail. Technically any "mage" can wear whatever the developer decides they want them to wear.

But here's another idea. Shameless plug: http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...d-BLU-function