Geomancer, New Healer Concept

[PatronasCharm]

They could but currently red mage is a failed caster support, rezzing is fine in progression even healing is too, but past progression it's not useful and healing takes away a GCD that could have been dmg and as over tuned as healing is it's just oh so unnecessary outside of solo play...

Knowing SE they will fail at properly making RDM a caster support as they will probably continue to rely on the rezz and healing gimmick :/ but we will see what happens

I'm sure they were playing it super safe with Red Mage, you can tell they didn't want to give it too much utility; but maybe they'll change Red Mage a bit in 5.0 and give it some iconic abilities or spells to be that support/caster. But again, if they're playing it safe, as you can tell they have, they'll probably just add another job to fill that gap.

Instead of replying, I'll edit it lol:

Spells RDM can see that can make them somewhat a support/caster:

*Temper: Perhaps increase Attack
*Haste: Increase movement speed / ability and spell recast
*Shell: Increase party members Magic Defense by a certain%
*Refresh: AoE Manashift kind of ability

[Brightshadow]

I'm sure they were playing it super safe with Red Mage, you can tell they didn't want to give it too much utility; but maybe they'll change Red Mage a bit in 5.0 and give it some iconic abilities or spells to be that support/caster. But again, if they're playing it safe, as you can tell they have, they'll probably just add another job to fill that gap

What Iconic spells or abilities? Red Mage Iconic thing is to dualcast and they already got that at launch. FFXI is a outlier it's a uncommon build of RDM they never had a focus on debuffing/buffing that was a niche FFXI created. historically they were a jack of all trades that copied a little bit of WHM/BLM/WAR and had dual cast.