Red Mages need some love

[HyoMinPark]

Anyways, I feel like we owe RDM players some actual discussion of their job. . . .I played primarily RDM at the start of Stormblood until just before 4.2. The main thing that made me drop

I play RDM semi-frequently; I’ve flexed it in Savage before for groups, but usually not in a very serious context. I think it really could use some potency buffs. I know SE wants to keep its damage down because of the raise utility... but that utility goes away once a group finishes progging a fight, and once the fight is on farm. Buffing Embolden could also help; and maybe changing the way the buff’s decay works. Right now, it’s only worth it to line up important buffs, or to snapshot important buffs (BRD main, here), during Embolden-5. Embolden-2 and Embolden-1 are incredibly weak. I honestly think it would be better, if they wanted to keep the decay design, to just do Embolden-3, Embolden-2, and Embolden-1, and adjust potencies on those three.

[Popotato]

I play RDM semi-frequently; I’ve flexed it in Savage before for groups, but usually not in a very serious context. I think it really could use some potency buffs. I know SE wants to keep its damage down because of the raise utility... but that utility goes away once a group finishes progging a fight, and once the fight is on farm. Buffing Embolden could also help; and maybe changing the way the buff’s decay works. Right now, it’s only worth it to line up important buffs, or to snapshot important buffs (BRD main, here), during Embolden-5. Embolden-2 and Embolden-1 are incredibly weak. I honestly think it would be better, if they wanted to keep the decay design, to just do Embolden-3, Embolden-2, and Embolden-1, and adjust potencies on those three.

Actually, the talk about snapshotting makes me think that maybe instead of a decay or even a potency, changing the effect to a ramp up would give it a good buff to its utility. That way, other jobs will want to snapshot during that brief 20% buff. This would also have little implication on the RDM itself, and could even be a light form of skill expression to align the verfinisher right has Embolden hits 20%

I don’t play much RDM anymore though so if there’s any obvious negative I’m missing let me know.