Quote Originally Posted by Kalise View Post
Have to be? Probably. For balancing reasons. Otherwise they'd have to try and figure out how to give them the toughness of a melee without making its ranged too good with that toughness (Or something like that)
That's already a fault we have though. We spend more time in melee range than other casters and are less durable than BLMs, with only self-healing (which ideally we should rarely use -- and won't help us in the face of getting one-shot) as a saving grace in that regard. We can't even claim it's due to our advanced mobility allowing us to dodge skills they're encouraged to tank, since BLMs have as many teleports as we have movement skills!