Red Mages need some love

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Also backed up by at least 50 people from my FC.

Ask your FC why they think it’s bad. There is a case to be made that BLM is weak right now, and it’s not the reasons you gave.

I also don’t understand what this guy has against people giving cohesion to the mess he wrote in his paragraph. He said the same thing to me on another thread, the difference being the way I divided the quotes was literally paragraph by paragraph. He broke it up himself. If anything, breaking his post up makes his arguments look better than they actually are since they’re actually clearer.

Anyways, I feel like we owe RDM players some actual discussion of their job after derailing so hard. RDM feedback inc.

This might’ve been touched upon before, but one of the main problems with RDM is the lack of predetermined burst phases. A RDM burst phase, the melee combo + Verfinisher, has such a variable timeframe that it feels like it never aligns with raid cooldowns, which is the core of endgame speed runs.

I think giving RDM some reliability in when it can execute its burst will give a good boost to its power and desirability. What I’m thinking is that instead of Manafication doubling current mana, it’s gives a flat 60/60 boost to current mana, with the same cooldown as now. That way, RDM burst is practically guaranteed every two minutes, and this will align with things like Trick Attack and Hypercharge. I feel like this also has the least impact on the opener, and if anything might make it so the and Embolden actually aligns with other raid buffs in the opener. While we’re at it, Embolden is a bit shit as a buff right now. For a non-selfish caster, RDM needs Embolden to have some desirability in a party. I think have a less frequent decay rate is probably the best solution.