Red Mage: Potential adjustments

[Shurrikhan]

As far as I can tell, the only certain new button is the magic barrier.

I suppose it is decently(?) likely that they already learned their lesson from the likes of Dream Within a Dream ➝ Assassinate or Gnashing ➝ Savage ➝ Wicked and won't go out of their way to waste space this time around, but we've been a little too often burned for me to assume that at this point. I'll be... tentatively hopeful, though.

Even then, to be fair, I'm not sure why they don't make Verfire/Verstone also convert to Jolt (II) when there's no proc available, don't have Veraero II/Verthunder II turn into Impact under Dualcast/Swiftcast, or the melee combo fall under one button, etc. There's not really any point in those being separate, so long as they allow you to complete a Verstone/Verfire cast even if the proc duration ends mid-cast.

VerBLOOSH

...I will probably be hearing that over raid comms every time my group's RDM hits that button. Oof.

The other thing I could predict is Veraero II and Verthunder II transmuting to Verholy and Verflare resp., and Impact transmuting to Scorch, as QoL.

Given that Veraero and Verthunder already convert to Holy and Flare, respectively... well, now I just want to see single/AoE options of each as Verbanish/Verscourge for ST and Verholy/Verflare for AoE...

I'm remaining optimistic, because the ability to pool gauge solves and addresses a lot of things about the job.

It really does. Riposte randomly having a higher cost than the other melee spenders still weirds me out just a bit, but I do love that we actually have some banking potential now. The Manafication change, too, is really, really nice. RDMshoten, basic and dull, sure, but it's still way better than the mess that was the MP-doubling effect.