Quote Originally Posted by Semmi View Post
This doesn't actually mean anything, you are still limited by the GCD and Scatter's base cast time is shorter than the GCD anyways. This is more or less the equivalent of a SMN going Ruin1 > Ruin2 over and over.
That's actually a misnomer, especially for summoner.

While, yes, the global cooldown is a factor for casting, the instant cast spells offer couple important utilities for casters across the board in the form of offering a window for OGCDs and in allowing motion during GCD cooldown periods.

For Red Mage, this means its to maintain uptime while evading, and available to use off global cooldowns without interrupting/clipping as well. Red Mage is actually middle of the three when it comes to value of usable off global cooldown tools among casters.

So, 50 content? Not very powerful AoE. 60 Content, over the course of a Dungeon? RDM's AoE isn't terrible, especially when you factor that, like Summoner, AoE Resource more or less maintains between fights. 70 Content? All mages fall off in comparison to melee. (Summoner gets one really bursty phase during Bahamut summon, but most AoE needs die too quickly to make full use of that thus far, maybe that will change?)

Again, speculatively, all the pieces seem to be there with good thought behind them. Just need to see how it actually plays firsthand.