Red Mage as possible new tank class

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I thought this thread was supposed to be about Red Mage, not DRK or NIN.

The way I see it, the easiest thing to do is to have RDM stem from GLA and DRK from MRD (giving it access to HP drain abilities and two-handed weapons). This would inherently make RDM a tank job since most of GLAs abilities focus on generating enmity and mitigating damage. This would be fine with me, I really enjoyed playing RDM in XI and thought it even had some tanking potential there. But this would make it somewhat limited and it would be difficult to differentiate it from PLD, they both would use some white magic and share 75% of their abilities.

Ideally RDM would stem from it's own class (Fencer) and have a whole new set of abilities to make it unique. But of course this would be harder to implement and probably not happen until an expansion is made.

Edit:***Ninja'd by above post, pretty much making my ideas obsolete.***

Regarding WHM+BLM = RDM. I am fairly strongly against. Red Mage is about Magic and Melee, WHM+BLM gives absolutely no melee potential.