Just wanted to provide feedback on the 2 hour ability.
It seems a little confusing that the idea is to give them a boost to effectiveness and duration on their Enhancing Magic, when it's already at a B+ rating (White Mages (C+ rating) with gear outshining it with the use of AoE on the same buffs).
Instead it would have been so much more useful to have the merit 2 hour ability as:
Focus Fire (2hour):
Shares cooldown with regular Chainspell, however this allows the Red Mage to target any player in their Alliance and grant them a 20 second Chainspell ability. During this time, the Red Mage will also be able to cast Stoneskin, Blink, Aquaveil and Phalanx I on other alliance members.
The idea of giving RDM the ability to become slightly more effective at buffing while other classes in your party/alliance would be aoe buffing anyways, once every 2 hours (for 30+ minute buffs which might be increased slightly by this, and gear) is silly, not even considering that they don't have AoE buffs as standard, as it still leaves them even more out of the rotation for endgame.
In any case, no RDM would use a slightly more powerful enhancing magic 2 hour in lieu of Chainspell, as the functionality of CS is far above that which a few extra defence points can offer in an emergency.
A targetted chainspell would concrete a RDM or 2 into every Alliance again, as right now, while my enfeebles are really useful in low man content, the slot I take up in the alliance could be far more useful held by a Scholar for example. A class needs to be on par with every other, and part of the decision to be included, not completely forgotten and left to gather dust.
Edited for brainfarts