Quote Originally Posted by Crimson_Slasher View Post
And agreed on fastcast, but partly disagreed on MND. While Mnd does raise potency of cures, it requires hundreds of mnd to actually make a noticible contribution, and with the approach of higher levels and subs, some of that fastcast will be granted to those wishing to sub for cure IV.
Granted, cure potency (which SMN can currently cap and RDM cannot) is a bigger issue then MND, but if you don't break a certain threshold of Mind, your cures will just be gimp in general. Coming Monday, assuming none of the gear got changed, Red Mage will be able to cap cure potency though, as it should considering that SMN currently can.

Sub RDM already gives the max amount of Fast Cast it ever will at even level 70. It is competitive with the buff from Light Arts when /SCH, but Red Mage effectively gets twice the Fast Cast of someone /RDM, not including gear and possible future traits for Red Mage main.

Granted, Red Mage sub is getting Sleep 2, Cure IV and Haste in coming updates, but Red Mage will still be twice as good at Fast Cast unless you are competing with a White Mage (for casting cures/debuff removal) or Scholar (for recasts).