Quote Originally Posted by Duelle View Post
Just want to comment that when I called this back in December, people like Hyrist were telling me that I was jumping the gun and that we didn't know anything about the job and thus we should just sit and wait instead of giving opinions, criticism and feedback. Unsurprisingly, the job turned out exactly as I said it would. I wasn't impressed back then, and I am not now.
Do we really need to go down the rabbit hole of console RPG vs MMO again? Yes, the job was used a certain way in the console FFs, but as I've constantly been saying, stuff changes when you cross the threshold into any other genre.
Yes and this is the best way to impairment a Red Mage, as a spellcaster balanced between two schools of magic and some melee ability. The instant they announced Red Mage I figured it would be a spellcaster that casts spells to power up melee abilities because that was the most logical way Final Fantasy XIV would translate the essence of the class to an MMO format.