I'm with Seif on this one. If a gun is put to my head, though, I want a mage. This slippery slope of Redmage-dom is tricky because a RDM is a hybrid to begin with and classes are hybrids and there's too much hybrid-ing. I'm more in favor of the Caster range DD-defuffer being Arcanist>Oracle and lets skip the RDM business until we have a solid BLM and WHM.