New Red Mage Spells

[Sunrider]

Good evening!

As we are approaching max capacity for adding magic we are in a situation where it is difficult to add new spells on a short-term basis, and this is not only limited to red mage. To clarify, this doesn’t mean we cannot add new magic, it just means we first need to address the expansion of the magic spell capacity, so this will take a bit of time.

Next, in regards to some of the suggestions and requests we have been seeing.
Plague effect enfeebling magic spell:
Since there are already abilities that add a plague effect, we don’t really feel a necessity to add it to red mage’s arsenal. Also, since DoT-related magic spells are scholars forte, this wouldn't be something that is unique to red mage.

That feels like a cheap excuse. There are already abilities that inflict Poison, Paralyze, Slow, Blind, Defense Down, and Attack Down, but none of those stops RDM from having equivalent spells. Plague's MP/TP reduction would be the perfect compliment to Poison's HP reduction.

SCH may specialize in DoT magic, but SCH didn't originate it, nor does it corner the market on DoT magic. RDM haivng Plague wouldn't compromise SCH's abilities in the slightest.

Stronger version of Dia/Bio:Red mages already have Dia 3 and Bio 3 from merit points which are considerably powerful version of these spells.

If the devs aren't already aware, there is ongoing contention at the very nature of merited spells and abilities. There are a myriad of reasons, not the least of which being that placing spells under merits artificially blocks the potential for any higher tiers. So long as Dia and Bio 3 remain merits, there's little hope of seeing Dia and Bio 4 under anything but future merits.

There is also major discontent with the limited point allocation for merit spells, which forces an illusory specialization on a class billed for it's diversity.