(06-27-2016, 11:59 AM)Aaron Wrote: Lmfao yeah a mage tank would be awful.
Unless they do it like a Red Mage, or something. Don't they use sword and gun?
RDM's design doesn't really lend to tanking. It could do some incredible things in FFXI in the hands of truly skilled players with the best possible gear, but that's not really the rule, just the exception.
RDMs used rods, staves, and swords across the series as a whole, but they also make use of both WHM and BLM (which throws up potentially all kinds of lore challenges) while also complicating what they would actually be doing in a fight. Giving a class okay-heals and okay-melee and okay-nuking generally means they're worse than specialists in every circumstance. It can be balanced, certainly, but if done incorrectly you either get a broken OP class or something worse than anyone else at everything.
I would like to see RDM as a DPS, all that considered. Give them spells on proc from melee combos, or make them do the dance like BLMs do with a melee/magic switch. I don't know how you'd incorporate the recovery aspect of it, though.
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