Quote Originally Posted by Wayfinder3 View Post
never mind the specifics that a good BLM is leading his party to a clear and a equally good RDM is salvaging one by tanking his own performance. Janitor isn't a fun profession, RDM should provide more damage or more proactive utility
What's fun and what isn't is a subjective matter. Many classes can lead their party to a clear by good DPS, at the moment for example Monk. But salvaging a run like that is something only red mage can do and nobody else. For me, these moments are a lot of fun, i can feel a sense of accomplishment. The same sense of accomplishment as i felt when clearing the hardcore content back in the day when i still did it.

Yes, the gap to BLM is too large, but don't call for a removal of Verraise because the "real supposed" size of the gap is hard to determine. I'm sure there are many other people like me who enjoy red mage exactly because of verraise, if it's taken away, there is no place to go for those people. If you are only interested in DPS and savage clears, you have lots of options available. So i'd rather have red mage be subpar in savage than having them remove verraise.

Again, i don't think every job has to perform the same in every type of content. There are enough jobs for some of them to be better at certain type of content and worse at others.