Yet another redmage balance idea

[Wayfinder3]

Composure is beter than you think tbh. If you're in a Dual/Triple Caster comp the boost is massively appreciated. I'd like SE to actually put more magic damage/vul up buffs in the game to help compete with the NIN/DRG/BRD DPS trinity at the moment if they're not going to fix those classes, and I can tell you the boost from a Contagion in a NIN/SMN/BLM/RDM comp is absolutely what makes that party viable at all in the game's current state. Not good (3 mana shift spamming casters is as good as one ranged dps atm, if you only consider healer mana), just viable. Due to the higher weight of Tank vs Healer DPS contribution and higher saturation of physical vs magic DPS classes in general we do need more magic damage/vul up/elemental res down buffs, and they need to be higher potency to compete with the blunt/piercing/slashing/phys counterparts.

even a turd could be good if you dress it up nice, the idea of giving rdm a seperate skill for buffing magic dps instead of physcial just sounds terrible because of how burst windows work in this game. you don't want to have 2 abilities lock each other out when they're designed with your party in mind. Look at Contagion and Radiant Shield, contagion see's no real viable use outside of pet swap even though it would be phenomenal to have both it and the shield. people will always pick the better of the 2, and if you allow both of them to go up together, then just make one neutral buff. It's terrible skill design.

Double caster is trash, why would anyone in their right mind consider doing triple caster and on that note, we don't need more magic debuffs, we need more jobs that use magic as a point of their core kit, melee/tank/ranged support magic dealers that would allow for magic buffs to be viable. Contagion has the potential to be the most broken ability next to trick and disembowel but not enough jobs synergize with magic to allow for that.