Quote Originally Posted by Vexander View Post
Red Mage mainly nuked.
I think it's really important to consider why anyone would use RDM instead of BLM, in that case. If you just want a nuker, is there really any reason to pick RDM over BLM? RDM's value lies in the fact that you have a safety net and some flexibility - as you say, if something went wrong you had the white magic, and you had the alternative attacking styles. That's what RDM's identity is. Erasing that just to cram RDM into XIV's restrictive system feels like a waste of potential.

RDM was presented as ranged DPS with a mix of melee attacks
That's certainly what the video showed, but there wasn't much of it. I am hopeful that there's more to RDM than that - which is why I'm watching for as much information as I can find. I'll be extremely disappointed if there's not more depth than we saw in the video.