Red Mages: How do you feel about the symmetry of Black and White magic?

[LilimoLimomo]

The problem with white magic is that RDM is a dps, if it was a healer there might be a case for having it use both healing and damage dealing magic since healers usually dps aswell as heal. But as a dps, RDM’s focus is on dps and nothing more. If it had white magic that provided healing and support, it would simply never use them… if it had to use them to generate mana for the melee combo? Either the melee combo would have to do absurd dps to make up for them having to spend time healing/buffing, or it would be too weak to be worth using and RDMs would simply never use the melee combo.

I think you may have misunderstood what I'm saying, because I wasn't in any way proposing that RDM become more of a healer. Verholy, Verstone, and Veraero are all damage-dealing white spells, and they would be the main thrust of what needed adjustment so that each school felt distinct — rather than Verfire and Verstone literally being the same spell with the lone exception of the type of mana they generate. I just also think it would be neat if Vercure added white mana as well since it's a white spell, and the result would be that in the rare case Vercure was cast, the RDM would then adjust the cadence of Black and White magic afterwards to make up for the offset. It just seems a bit silly that arguably the "whitest" spell RDM has doesn't generate any white mana.