@Naoki Yoshida-> Make Samurai a DPS class!!!

[Shippuu]

Ah no worries, POTD will be filled with DPS. xD

Ah yes, cause nothing says successful expansion like forcing a bunch of players to use old content.

Good luck getting through all those MSQ dungeons and getting endgame currency.

[Radacci]

Red Mage is a Range DPS so I am curious how will it function in battle if the main attacks are focused on casting spells and the sword attacks are Magic Slash Waves and short "charge in attack then jump back to position" skills

i guess kind of like MCH/BRD when they use their "cast" extension, you cast your spells at range, and then sword skills, since auto attacks are physical, it will be like auto attacking with any caster/healer=rubbish damage.
Also we only saw 5 skills from what i can count, and we'll maybe have something around 30-35 skills (or since they want to reduce skill bloat, maybe still around the 27-30 we have now - so RDM can seamlessly cast spells at range, and do melee combo in melee range.

Ah yes, cause nothing says successful expansion like forcing a bunch of players to use old content.

Good luck getting through all those MSQ dungeons and getting endgame currency.

i think ppl are exaggerating a bit, there was no such problem in HW, because lv cap went up- many ppl will cap their mains before taking up the new jobs, unless they are super hyped and WANT the new jobs as their mains over any other job.
there's nothing forcing you to run PotD, it's just one of the best options (so far) there's roulettes with XP bonus, new beast tribe quests (the HW beast quests give quite a lot of XP, and im sure the new beast quests in SB, will give tonnes, too) MSQ, side quests, FATEs; you can switch it up and do whatever.