Red Mage could use some help.

[Kacho_Nacho]

On this point I respectfully disagree. It is only with harder content that RDM rez utility is truly valued, and progressively less so as players become more proficient and better equipped.

In content most players arguably spend the most time playing, the ability to instacast rez on demand is so niche as to be easily dismissed. If we’re talking the occasional resurrection of a lag death or mechanics failure, even that of the healer, that’s nothing a SMN can’t take care of while still performing the primary DPS function at a much higher level.

We're just going to agree to disagree.

The ability to instacast a rez on demand is useful on Odin and all the later Trials. You must complete many of these hard trials to continue the story. The ability to spare your healers MPs by insta-raising dead characters isn't a niche which can be easily dismissed. It is utility.

With that said, red mages should not be balanced solely around this ability. Each job should be evaluated by what it brings to the table and their damage per second, their offensive buffs, their defensive buffs, and their ability to heal and raise. Right now, I'd say red mages should be smack dab in the middle of the rankings of the damage dealers with the selfish damage dealers being further ahead in their damage to make up for their lack utility.

Now some players have posted that other jobs deserve more attention than Red Mages. To which, I reply, "So?"

This isn't a competition, folks. Every job in the game could probably use a little love from S.E.

What none of us are privy to is how much a utility weighs versus another utility. Nor, do we know how much damage per second weighs against a utility. So, post your posts explaining your dissatisfaction which certain points of your favorite job and don't begrudge those who favor a different job than you. Their concerns are as legitimate as yours.