Quote Originally Posted by Sunhwapark View Post
Red mage is pretty good, you can engage and disengage fights independently.
The White Magic Melee combo comes with a baked in shield that gets even more potent if you use Engagement/Magicked Barrier, this is ontop if its superior % damage reduction making it tankier than other ranged classes.
It has a dual function heal + DMG LB, Ranged AoE CC (bind/silence) that can prevent engagements.

Samurai is a minor threat to anything that can create a self shield near instantly, being max health and having any substance of barrier will prevent you from dying from their LB so some classes like WAR,RDM,NIN,MNK don't have to respect a SAM's Chiten, since it's just a knowledge check.

OP is not wrong though, Samurai's playstyle in FL is like an irritating fly buzzing around the enemy hoping that they fall for the trap and retaliate against them.
If RDM is so good why noone plays it in FL? Maybe because the moment you rush into an enemy with caster defence you will be a red GOO on the grass / snow?
What about bard? Sage?
Some jobs are dead in that mode and the fact thet they CAN preform good in the right hands and even top score when pigs fly it doesnt mean we should consider this ballanced
Why bother with red mage dancing around, planing 5 steps ahead, risking being literally 1 shot when you can play black mage who is squishy too but can do so much more damage. Heal? Even pure healers cant do such a diffirence.
Why play warrior to pull away 1 player when you can play DRK and pull 1-500000 of them and be literally unkillable. Even ignoring LB DRK got shields toping them on heal charts and dmage reductions.
And yes. both SAM and ninja LB are a joke making cheap kills when conditions are met. But when i can trick ninja into using LB while using recuperate to deny them, i get 1 shot by sam no matter what, even if i didnt know they were in that pile of 20 enemies and billion of reduced SFXs. Machinist snipe command is designed to pick up low HP enemy from a great distance and its job fantasy. All samurais do are fishing for a debuff applied by a stray AOE to take a chep unfair and nigh-denyable kill. My astro has no shields. Expecting machinist to have one to prevent it.... Well its the same story that you can deny DRK premade of 4 by punhichng one back with monk skill.
PVP needs a full rework. And we all know those discord mafia will alwys find some cheap tactic to stack up on, but the system we have now is broken and unplayable as soon as semi-decent premade shows up.