Anyone disappointed with the new Red Mage asthetics?

[Daenerys_Sedai]

unless I'm missing something (since I don't know if mage has varied meanings in other worlds) but.. the job is red mage, so assumption was that it would, of course, be a caster-focused role.

[EusisLandale]

unless I'm missing something (since I don't know if mage has varied meanings in other worlds) but.. the job is red mage, so assumption was that it would, of course, be a caster-focused role.

Red Mages have never been strictly mages exactly, but rather a job capable of handling everything anyone can but never as good as someone specialized in it. Physical damage, magical damage, buffs, healing, anything you'd need a Red Mage could do.
It could very well have been a melee dps job similar to Ninja, just minus the mudra combos to do the magic. It could've been a healer mixing in attack spells, just like every other healer.

[Fevelle]

unless I'm missing something (since I don't know if mage has varied meanings in other worlds) but.. the job is red mage, so assumption was that it would, of course, be a caster-focused role.

Red Mage was ALWAYS caster-focused. Since long before the reveal I have been saying this, because their main skill is Chainspell.