Rdm in 5.0?

[Nalien]

Our support side of RDM is practically gone with the exit of Manashift/apoc/erase. We could at least pretend to be support with those skills, but yeah lets delete them so we can have even less to do during single target encounters.

Ah right, I'd forgotten. Caster additionals were almost completely gutted too... It's a shame, I'd liked to have seen stuff like Erase reworked and expanded upon... Although honestly I was never a fan of the additionals system... When we had to pick 5 our of 10 of them it had potential, most outright weren't worthwhile but if they were adjusted it could be an interesting system. Now that they're just essentially default skills? Hate how they're shared across Jobs to be honest... I miss the extra class identity provided by Dark Knight having Shadowskin instead of Rampart, or Scholar having Leeches instead of Esuna, for examples.

Still, as it was there was still potential... I enjoyed Verraising healers and topping their MP off with Mana Shift. I enjoyed using Erase to help with healing and potentially save healers an Esuna cast. I enjoyed timing Addle before AoE magic attacks, and Apoc before single target ones... Such a shame to see all that gone...

At the very least I guess at least Red Mage should get a fair amount of adjustments over 5.x... That or we'll be ignored for an entire expansion like Machinist and Dark Knight were...

[Zyneste]

Ah right, I'd forgotten. Caster additionals were almost completely gutted too... It's a shame, I'd liked to have seen stuff like Erase reworked and expanded upon... Although honestly I was never a fan of the additionals system... When we had to pick 5 our of 10 of them it had potential, most outright weren't worthwhile but if they were adjusted it could be an interesting system. Now that they're just essentially default skills? Hate how they're shared across Jobs to be honest... I miss the extra class identity provided by Dark Knight having Shadowskin instead of Rampart, or Scholar having Leeches instead of Esuna, for examples.

Still, as it was there was still potential... I enjoyed Verraising healers and topping their MP off with Mana Shift. I enjoyed using Erase to help with healing and potentially save healers an Esuna cast. I enjoyed timing Addle before AoE magic attacks, and Apoc before single target ones... Such a shame to see all that gone...

At the very least I guess at least Red Mage should get a fair amount of adjustments over 5.x... That or we'll be ignored for an entire expansion like Machinist and Dark Knight were...

Addle is staying. Its the only thing we have left.

Instead of Tank buster incoming -> Apoc

Well have to adjust to Tank buster incoming -> Hey rdm can you get the Verraise.