I dont see why you dont just root for mystic knight, its totally the job youre asking for when you want a melee caster. Obviously some things were going to be different it was even stated before that rdm would either be underwhelming or op if it did everything well. Personally I am having a blast, but I love playing casters even though im usually in the enemies grill so this settup works great for me. I think at the roots it does what it basically is at the core. So what if melee was "tacked on" honestly never used melee except to spare mp on "trash mobs" aka pre boss fights. So Im totally fine with this iteration. This discussion has been going on for a very long time now, and its like beating a dead horse. If they made Mystic Knight a DPS I guarantee all the things you wanted from your version of RDM would ne its toolkit


Not only that but lets go back to the RDM tank idea, there you go. Many people have stated that it would fit better for Rune Fencer or Mystic Knight, I dunno why you keep thinking that redmage had lots of sword skill and sword magic, except for 11.