[RDM] Please do not buff redmage's melee combo, buff verstone/fire/aero/thunder.

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Originally Posted by GraumSenpai

Utility should not equal damage loss. Why?

You. Don't. Need. It.

Why should you lose damage for the existance of a redundant ability that isn't necessary to the clear.

Raise? Nice I guess but you already lose your mana, you lose the potency in that GCD, you lose the proc opportunity.

Magic Barrier? Nice I guess but its not needed and that 5% healing potency is laughably useless. Signed: A Healer main who overheals in regens cuz we have so many now

RDM doesn't need taxes because they can do things BLM cannot. Just play what you like. If your choice in class to play is built around meta that's your choice, then play RDM I guess. But if you enjoy BLM then play that? No matter what a DNC is going to partner you over RDM even if rDPS is made the same. Your still going to be top of your EXCEL spreadsheet linked to your damage log. I don't understand why people think taxes need to exist in this game because of role and situational and fluffy supports that no one needs. Uptime is a thing of the past for melees and phys ranged don't offer any better support than melees realistically. Casters struggle on movement, why should anyone be higher than others? Balance everyone to as close to same as possible and everyone is happy imo.

They have already standardized a lot of jobs, so if they do the same on the DPS it would be stupid, I think it is interesting to have pure DPS, and DPS with a little more support and a lower DPS RDPS included, but the tax should not be more than 3-5%.

The magic barrier is an effective mitigation, but yes the 5% increased heal is really shitty, but overall all the increased healing buff/healing/regen effects should either disappear on DPS roles, or stop being taxed as being useful'', when the healers can already heal a entire team very easily without the help of any DPS.

Since they're going in a direction where they're simplifying all roles, I think they should just give to caster jobs a little more mobility to the redmage and blm on the actuals tools, like triplecast and acceleration '' they already do it with every expansion
the summoner should still have his mobility slightly reduced but anyway needs a rework on the filler and ruin 4 should be more more present in case of a required mobility like old smn, and like they did on this raid tier make the hitboxes bigger to allow melee DPS and tank a limited uptime loses,
and in return drastically reduce this gap between every DPS which no longer has any meaning given the direction they are taking on the battle system.