Subtle Hints: Red Mage

[Kiregean]

This is something I've noticed with the release of A Realm Reborn and it seemed just coincidental at first but seeing the skills Thaumaturge lost, the Conjurer gained, the rumours that a third class might be required later for jobs, and finally mobs using a few key skills that Red Mage might be coming.

Now hear me out, it may seem like there are other classes that would come first but Red Mage seems like it's a prime candidate to come into play before many others.

Let's start by analyzing the Thaumaturge. In 1.0 Thaumaturge had many more skills but some should stick out like a sore thumb to former Final Fantasy XI players as being key staples of the Red Mage. These include...

Dia
Sacrifice
Poison
Bio
Stygian Spikes
Auto-Refresh
Ressurect
Gravity
Aero
Stone
Bind
Silence
Slow
Paralyze
Blind

What do all these skills have to do with Red Mage you might ask? All of them are in some form staples established in Final Fantasy XI (Dia being their starting skill.)

[Kiregean]

Now what about Conjurer? They lost and gained many changing their entire class structure but we're only focusing on the primary ones taken from the class.

Fire
Blizzard
Thunder
Water
Shell
Auto-Refresh
Fastcast
Sleep
Shock Spikes

Again the spells removed and shifted to other classes are all staples of the Red Mage.

[Kiregean]

So what does this have to do with a possible third class? Quite a bit.

The clincher is the Primals and their followers. Those who have played 1.0 and now A Realm Reborn will notice that while the followers were in 1.0, before they did not use enhancing Enhancing Magic. For those unsure what that means, in Final Fantasy XI enhancing magic was a skill set exclusive to the Red Mage (at least at start) that included Enstone, Enfire, Enaero, Enblizzard, Enwater, and Enthunder which would add elemental damage to the Red Mage's melee attacks.

Taken altogether almost every single spell from the Red Mage's arsenal is now in the game or in the coding and dormant thus the rumour of a possible third class would fully make sense were Red Mage to be introduced as Conjurer, Thaumaturge, and Gladiator (Or Arcanist even though highly unlikely as Red Mage's are sword users).

These are just my observations, feel free to interject any thoughts you might have.

[Sub-Xero]

You know... if you just edit your first post you can bypass the character limit and get all of your stuff into one post.

[NoctisCaelus]

You know... if you just edit your first post you can bypass the character limit and get all of your stuff into one post.

I was just about to say this.

[Escad]

Before the Redmage we are going to get a second Archer class because there is 2 of everything beside of the Archer

[ForteXX]

Before the Redmage we are going to get a second Archer class because there is 2 of everything beside of the Archer

2 of everything besides archer?

[Conradus]

2 of everything besides archer?

Two nuking mages: BLM & SMN
Two healing mages: WHM & SCH
Two melee DPS: MNK & DRG
Two tanks: PLD & WAR
But only one ranged physical DPS.

[TrystWildkey]

But only one ranged physical DPS.

Musketeer for the win. My optimism and desire to dual wield guns as a tiny Lalafell in a pirate hat tell me that Musketeer will come before anything else.

[ForteXX]

Two nuking mages: BLM & SMN
Two healing mages: WHM & SCH
Two melee DPS: MNK & DRG
Two tanks: PLD & WAR
But only one ranged physical DPS.

Ya, I was thinking he was saying the jobs, due to how he worded it.