Red Mage is Range Combat? (Discussion)

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This confuses me so much. How was BD's Red Mage a "Tank" that game was turn based.

The class's innate trait was Revenge, which when they got hit, could proc and give them a free BP. In addition, they could also learn the 'Turn Tables' and 'Eye for an Eye traits, which gave a free bp on dodge and and increased crit rate to the max when the RDM hit low health. I equipped mine with a Red Muleta to boost the rate she got attacked, equipped the counter centric SAM skill set, a sword for more frequent limit breaks, and Buff Up for constantly raising stats, as well as E4E and The cover trait where she'd take the hit for a weakened ally. It worked fairly well, especially when Revenge procced multiple times. Not a gamebreaker, but a style I certainly adored most. Admittedly, I looked at the fact it had Revenge, and started to work on a build based around getting the RDM hit as much as possible, so I suppose I did the best I could to make it a true tank? XD My party was RDM, Spiritmaster, NIN, and BLM.

Admittedly the idea started simply because I was curious if it was actually possible to make a mage job durable, and Revenge made RDM seem like the best candidate, but it worked fairly well, at least IMHO.

Put I will give you major props, because unlike everyone else, you did not mention XI, THANK YOU.

I avoided the game like a plague after what they did to RDM, honestly. XD Making it a refresh bot...

I was mad over the skill reveal trailer for 3.0 when they showed 15 seconds of a BRD not getting anything interesting. So no, the fact someone who might have been really excited for this class, seeing it turn out like this, might make them lose interest.

Someone understands my complaints!