Concept for a Magic Melee DPS

[SaberMaxwell]

Look man I just wanna swing a sword and cast a spell. I didn't pick DPS to be the emergency medical personnel on site, I picked it to kick people's knees in. With magic. And swords.

Red Mage for me is an annoyance because right now it's my Spellblade fantasy vs someone else's "hybrid role" fantasy. Give me Mystic Knight or Rune Fencer, and I will abandon Red Mage almost immediately. How's that for an anecdote. Then I can stop caring about all this "but Red Mage is supposed to be strong at raising, it's the job's *identity*" rhetoric.

[Wayfinder3]

Look man I just wanna swing a sword and cast a spell. I didn't pick DPS to be the emergency medical personnel on site, I picked it to kick people's knees in. With magic. And swords.

Red Mage for me is an annoyance because right now it's my Spellblade fantasy vs someone else's "hybrid role" fantasy. Give me Mystic Knight or Rune Fencer, and I will abandon Red Mage almost immediately. How's that for an anecdote. Then I can stop caring about all this "but Red Mage is supposed to be strong at raising, it's the job's *identity*" rhetoric.

This, idc about a hat with a feather and red clothing(especially since every generic piece of caster gear we get is made with BLM in mind as what fencer would wear robes into combat) RDM really shouldn't be a caster, but i doubt making them a melee is a smart move, and the devs don't likely know what a hybrid means. so we ended up with a 2.0 BLM clone that sometimes becomes a melee dps. I honestly wish they added a new role that would fit jobs that in theory could excel in combat from multiple places. RDM would fit very well here and you could stretch it for Dragoon too. I honestly find RDM and DRG to be more alike in conception than RDM and BLM. Holy trinity poisons this type of diversity sadly