Quote Originally Posted by Kitru View Post
Honestly, Fencer/Red Mage would most likely be a DPS class using a fusion of melee and black/white magic attacks.

The next tank class they add will, in all likelihood, be Dark Knight. Samurai could be a possible second.
I knew that a lot of people would lean in this direction with Red Mage being DPS and Dark Knight being the next possible tank class.
I get the reasoning behind thinking this, but I'm not really into that route because it just feels like the easy predictable one.

Having a more lightly armored nimble class that relies on magic to provide defense seems a lot more interesting to me and has more potential to feel truly different as a tank than just another heavily armored class that carries a big weapon.

Sure this isn't exactly inline with the more "classic" generalist role of Red Mages in previous FF games, but with how role based the classes are in FFXIV, being a generalist doesn't fit very well.

I personally would like to see the opposite of what you said would be most likely, Red Mages be added in as a magic based tanking class and Dark Knights be added in as a melee based AoE DPS class, going with scythes as their weapons like in FFXI.