6.0 Red Mage speculation

[Grimoire-M]

No DoTs, please. One of the reasons I like RDM is because it's one of the classes that doesn't involve baby sitting DoTs. And if there's no "baby sitting" involved, if there's no additional wrinkle to the gameplay because of it, and it's just baked into part of the regular rotation then it doesn't really add or change anything.

To be fair there is a good argument for DoTs on Red Mage. Each tick could also generate Mana over time. This doesn’t mean Red Mage needs a 100% upkeep DoT, but it could use one as a finisher to their burst (akin to what you see on GNB and NIN) or as a tool to avoid over capping for the purpose of aligning raid buffs. That is the only way I would expect them to ever get one. I would expect other acceleration and management tools to be added long before it would see implementation, but it does serve a legitimate purpose with a little thought put in.