I think my favorite thing about red mage this expansion was being locked out of PF groups for P8S.

During the dog stomps red mage would basically just die first, people had to throw you extra heals. Meanwhile SMN is coming out of phoenix every time and can give itself rekindle and use both radiant aegis stacks.

But don't worry since they made the damage checks on P9-12S so low they can just use that as a reason to not balance their game.