Give RDM Water and Blizzard already!

[PatronasCharm]

We got enough spells as it is for our rotation, we don't need more. What we need is more potency. Black mages don't get stone/water/wind so unlike FFXI we're not following an elemental wheel where we get to use all 6 elements on one job.

Enspells might be nice though...hmm.

I’d love to see an Enspell, Maybe a sword OGCD strike that doesn’t eat up mana but builds it up.

That could be an avenue.

But back to my post, I’d love to see the entire spectrum of elements, not sure if their Jolt / Impact is a combination of White/Black Magic, but having a water spell / blizzard spell would be neat to see. They’ve got 4 elements already why not complete the set of 6.

[Duelle]

I’d love to see an Enspell, Maybe a sword OGCD strike that doesn’t eat up mana but builds it up.

If you're going in that direction, an alternative would be to give RDM a second combo that generates mana or a sword skill that generates mana and combos into Veraero/Verthunder (this, much like your suggestion, clashes with the existence of Jolt, but that can be easily addressed with additional changes).

But back to my post, I’d love to see the entire spectrum of elements, not sure if their Jolt / Impact is a combination of White/Black Magic, but having a water spell / blizzard spell would be neat to see. They’ve got 4 elements already why not complete the set of 6.

Not sure why Veraero II and Venthunder II exist, frankly speaking. On the one hand, they could have been called Verwater and Verblizzard. On the other, they set a precedent for tier II spells, which doesn't make sense on a concept level.

[PatronasCharm]

If you're going in that direction, an alternative would be to give RDM a second combo that generates mana or a sword skill that generates mana and combos into Veraero/Verthunder (this, much like your suggestion, clashes with the existence of Jolt, but that can be easily addressed with additional changes).
Not sure why Veraero II and Venthunder II exist, frankly speaking. On the one hand, they could have been called Verwater and Verblizzard. On the other, they set a precedent for tier II spells, which doesn't make sense on a concept level.

I've got to remind myself that the Melee Combo is already "Enchanted" being more than likely a combination of "Light / Dark elements" like Jolt / Impact / Scorch. So taking back what I said about building up Mana, perhaps a new "Mana Dump" WS could very well be something along the lines of a "Enstone" - 5 W or a "Enfire" -5B. That way if we're sitting at 44w/48b drop an "Enfire" >> 44w/43b >> Manafestation >> [Verflare Empowered?] by Enfire debuff to enemy?

Back to Verblizzard and Verwater, I can't imagine that NOBODY in the entire Dev Team didn't think of giving Red Mage some Ice and Water magic DPS spells. Added another layer of RNG (Which is my proposed Idea of the post) or maybe they could have made it a White / Black mana dump spell on a OGCD that's more powerful than Ver(Long Spells).

Verflood / Verfreeze as more potent AoE's? They could have done SO many things to RDM, but they left it, in my opinion, as an afterthought.

There were so many avenues they could have taken Red Mage away from the whole Rezzmage spectrum, be that Elementalist that can chain its spells together for more potency, but keep it as simple as it is.

Which is... entirely irrelevant. Elements can still provide a thematic frame for RDM's own internal mechanics, likely a much better one than just sticking in more eclectic arsenal related to stuff like "Impact", "Reprise", or the like.

I completely agree!