Red Mage use Casting gear!!

[Vexander]

SCHs and MCHs have had to deal with shared gearsets that don't fit their aesthetic, so don't see why RDM will/should be different. All SE has to do is diversify future gearsets so that it's not always catered to one Caster aesthetic (which they currently do anyway).

A good point. Seems each expansion has an, 'Artifact,' set which is based on the individual class, and then the sets are designed around a theme, such as raid gear being designed to the raid, or tomestone gear being designed to what sometimes seems to be a random theme, like Primals out of nowhere.

[Serilda]

If it means more diverse caster clothing while the healers land up with more robes, that's potentially great news. Less of the 'black/white variants of the same gear' and more variety. Not to say I am going to steer clear of robes entirely on my casters, but they always clip awfully anyway so this could be a nice accidental benefit for those of us who look good in other styles.

[Crysten]

Caster job uses INT gear...

In other news, the sky is blue, the grass is green and water is wet.

[Deedsie]

I suspect it'll have its own set the way Dragoon and Ninja do for strength and dexterity do, respectively. If loot bloat was really an issue, then why do they insist that Ninja wear different things from Machinist and Bard? Or Dragoon from Samurai and Monk, for that matter? Follows the aesthetics of the job in question. Black Mage and Summoner are not fighters by any stretch, but Red Mage is while also being a caster. Loot bloat is no argument, especially with tomestones. If anything, it just gets people doing the content a bit more.

[Kling-Klang]

Just remove the restriction for glamour (as long as the job is leveled you can glam the stuff on another job)...

[dice137]

I don't get why people were assuming that a casting class would use DEX gear in the first place. (Using "well, it's a ranged DPS" isn't really an excuse because NIN is melee.)

[Niwashi]

I'm still holding out some hope that a new expansion will bring big enough changes that they'll finally be able to fix the glamour system somehow, so that we can have a different glamour for each job, even in cases where they do share gear.

And that they'll then add more AF like gear, where each job gets custom designs. (We just need the fix to glamour first, so we can make better use of AF designed sets.)

[Kazrah]

Cool, means I can start stockpiling poetic gear for it.

Also, Scouting gear: why is this still a thing?

[Madrone]

Scouting should probably be collapsed and nin put on striking along with sam. Then all eastern themed jobs have one set. I know that kind of sucks for glamor.

They actually should probably start putting some non-main attributes on gear too... like INT for healers, MND for casters, Dex for STR jobs, pie for Dex jobs, etc. There tend to be small ways they could make use of the stats. And if there aren't, then make a small effect, like Dex giving parry rate again, or STR increasing parried amount,' but definitely something that isn't an offensive bonus.

Healers would have less of a gap between using Cleric's Stance correctly or not.

Caster's Physick would be more functional.

Mcn/brd party buffs would last longer.

[Xandos]

Historically red mage wore heavier armor similar to what the Dragoon is wearing. Red Mage was a mix between fighter, white mage, and black mage originally. They could use most of the same weapons as a fighter and wearing things like chain mail and scale mail were pretty common. They also couldn't cast the highest levels of black or white magic. They retained most of that in FFXI but tended to focus more on casting in the end game due to game design.

I'm not a fan of pigeon holing this class into being a caster and wearing caster gear. It shouldn't be just a caster. This class really does need it's own set of gear to be what it should be. Barring that they could either find a way to increase the armor value for red mages in cloth gear or find a way to give them int and mnd from the dragoon gear. Some sort of cleric stance like ability would probably work.

I do like the idea of adding in other stats to all the gear and making them somewhat relevant again. I am pretty sure that's how 1.0 gear worked.