I wanna know something and it's been on my mind for a while now.

Why are so many people trying to push Red mage as a tank in this game? Sure in other games it was a jack of all trades master of none.

But honestly adding red mage as a tank seems like it would be just a shield-less paladin with a rapier and en-magic.

White magic? Paladin has it
Self buffs? Paladin (stoneskin, etc)

The only thing they don't have is "black magic" but I still feel like it would be much more suited as a dps.