This thread is hilarious.

RdMelee got a buff. A decent buff. OAT on Almace? Nice.

Broheims got a problem with Melee-only buffs? Maybe make your presence known here outside the 1% of forum time devoted to complaining about updates. Red Mage got Temper because, aside from maybe 5 Magical Red Mages who post here, all of the posting on this subforum is Melee-oriented.

You have people like Duelle quite literally calling for massive casting nerfs to Red Mage. Removal of spells, reduction in casting ranges, even Addenda-esque stances which have been the bane of Scholar since its inception.

If you give a crap about the direction of your job, maybe you should show up and make your feelings known more often. When all the Devs are seeing is a huge melee camp sitting around asking for sword updates, with a mouthpiece or two even demanding nerfs to casting and only the same 4-5 posters refuting that nonsense, we're going to end up with things like Temper.

With that said, the update doesn't really bother me. Everyone knew the day Addle was released that White Mage was also on the spell (.DAT mining, etc). A quick-magic JA is pretty darn awesome, and will definitely see use. Overall we didn't really gain much (outside the melee faction), but we didn't lose anything either. Red Mage is not exactly in an overly poor position to begin with, outside of Abyssea. With any luck, 95-tier Endgame content will become relevant enough for people to really start to move out of the Abyssean midgame.