Red Mage as possible new tank class

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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.

I'm fine with waiting. I'd rather get RDM in a year or two knowing they'll do it's archetype justice over a hackjob that is as bad if not worse than FFXI's misrepresentation of my favorite job.

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

Agreed. If they really go this route it means the jilted melee camp from FFXI and all the discussions tossed around during ARR's beta have been completely ignored.

Specifically because they were tanks in 11 is why most people assume they will be the next tanks. Neither WAR or PLD tank by dodging/absorbing hits with shadows (sure we CAN dodge, but I'm sure a NIN would be much better at it)

Utsusemi was a broken mechanic back then and continues to be so now. That some XI'ers are clinging to it for the sake of being different (and because they can't wrap their minds around the idea that tanking = mitigation and that mitigation can be done differently enough without having sink to the lows of blink tanking) has no place in discussing tank design. NIN tanks were an accident and a responsible dev team would have nerfed utsusemi to the ground and done what was necessary to have NIN function as intended, not sit on their hands and allow a broken mechanic to become part of the greater game.