Red is obsolete.

[Daniel_Hatcher]

hey all i got a question that i think would be interesting to get the answer too lol
why is it rdm got cure4 at 48 and now its 90 and still got cure4 no upgrades ??
short but just interested to find out ya thoughts

RDM had Cure V originally it was removed.

After RDM replaced WHM for such a long time I suspect SE doesn't really want to give RDM Cure V back now WHM is the healer again, that said come 99 RDM will have the same Cure spell as every other mage /rdm I would hope SE will decide that they should have higher, though every mage will also have Haste /rdm and no way will they give a higher haste.

[Hyrist]

Higher haste? Perhaps not, but I would not fault SE for giving us hastega in late levels once it becomes available to everyone, just to rub it in some on us.

Though, I would be happy if we got it at all. It makes no sense to me when we're played as a support job, that all other support jobs, (Cor, Brd, Even WHM if you count Bar-ra, Curega, prot/shell and Boost spells) get AoE versions of their buffs. It's an artifical hurtle that really does not add anything to gameplay except redudancy.

[Raxiaz]

RDM "Gain" and "Bar" spells are self-target only. That's not being very supportive of the group. So I don't see how the AoE versions create redundancy when it was already redundant to have those spells to begin with (unless you're soloing).

If I remember correctly, Haste stacks with BRD's March. Slow and Slow II also stack with Elegy... so no, it's not really redundant for RDM's single-target buffs/enfeebles to be available to other jobs in an AoE form that still stacks with our own.

[Rayik]

If SE stopped making mobs IMMUNE to the one thing RDM has going for it it(enfeebles), we might actually be sought after for parties, other than just when the leader can't find a WHM and settles for us.