Can RDM get a little bit of love...

[Sylvain]

Isnt Red mage sppose to be about balance? Be both good in white and black magic but not excel i those magics while also bringing someting new? I feel like red mage should be a red mage like its ffxi counterpart, ( been playing ffxi and starting as a rdm) can heal and dps, i guess a support more than anything. Maybe thats just me though.

Yes but if you've played the current game, you should for instance know that almost everything is about dps and people number one concern is dps is most case, this is true for dps, tank and heal.


If you go on the healing section, you'll see a pletorad of WHM post complaining about lilies and every single one of them propose rework to increase their dps. Every single post about WHM is how they don't bring enough rdps to the table compared to AST/SCH.
No one ever talk about healing, only about dps.
Since you play healer, you know that healer spend usually around 80 to 90% of their time dpsing in a riad environnement that isn't crippled by bad tank and constant dps death. Which means again that, overall "healing" is a very minor concern even to healer.

Tank "default" stance is dps with 100% dps materia.

Currently, RDM suffers from a low dps and you propose to trade even more DPS for... healing? the one thing we could cut by 50% and still manage to complete everything this game has to offer?
I mean, if you want more heal the one thing that could eventually happen is that RDM heal is potent enough to replace one healer (just give them a Ver Medica). Basically, 1heal 1rdm would be the new "healing" meta for... guess what? more dps.

The only kind of support RDM would need is more dps. It's more than fine on the defense side of things and I really wish they'd put a 60sec cd on that raise so they could bump up their dps.