Quote Originally Posted by kikix12 View Post
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And if we look at FFXIV all casters are squishy unless they are hybridized with knights, like Paladin and Dark Knight who both have very limited magical capabilities and wear heavy armor. If we look at other FF games all dedicated casters are squishy, and even in the customizable versions all casters are squishy or speccing a character out to be a caster makes them more squishy unless hybridized to give up a sizable chunk on the caster side. Even in dungeons and dragons for a caster type to be durable they have to give up a lot on the caster side to do it.

And the ones shown to have any decent magic barriers main story wise in FFXIV are white mages, and just look at what happened to Y'shtola when some extra force was applied. Her shield was ripped in half and she was sent to the hospital for the 4.0 main story. Gameplay wise just look at how often WHM, AST, and SCH shields get punctured.

And by technicality dark knight is the "mage" tank. Its also considered the worst tank in the game outside of boss fights against enemies that use magic at max level.

I wish square would just remove that 1000 character limit already.