Quote Originally Posted by Burningskull View Post
Who cares if BLM does more damage or if SMN deals more damage. .
People who like playing Red Mage but don't like gimping their own damage potential as a result. BLM can put out insane amounts of damage and every change that is being made to them for some time now has been geared toward making them easier to play and more powerful at the same time. Summoner looks like they may be going in the same direction but we won't know for sure what's up with them until we see the potencies. A perfectly-played RDM does a lot less damage than someone perfectly playing those two classes, there is no two ways about it, just look at the numbers. In shadowbringers, BLM got some changes that were clearly designed by people who enjoy the class and want to help other people enjoy it as well. RDM got no such thoughtful changes, in fact many of the additions just raise more questions than they answer if they aren't completely useless from the getgo (looking at you reprise - Unless there's something in that tooltip we don't know about for the enchanted version, it is completely useless for any skilled red mage). Then you add the fact that manashift is gone now and it feels like they just don't want us to bring anything to the table compared to summoner or black mage.