Red mage 7.0 Wishlist

[Milkbeard]

2. Change 2.5s casts to 1.5s. Realistically RDM can't have the mobility of SMN without breaking Dualcast, but having 3.5/5 second of free movement is a pretty good deal.

This is a first suggested so far on this thread, and I mean I could see that. It wouldn't change the feel of the class by much, it would change our alignment with buffs
(I think)
I'm not gonna math it.

Healers do ultimates with a 1.5 gcd, and they don't have sword combo so yea it would probably fix our mobility. (lol please square still fix their mobility struggles too, ive seen how hard it can get on whm)

I was thinking yesterday of ways spell speed could become viable for rdm... It does get bothersome that casters sometimes struggle to share gear due to minor melds, especially if you're doing older stuff on sumn and SS has more viability. Red mage is always the one that needs to avoid SS like the plague while blm you can just bite whatever GCD bullet you have and still compete with other blms.

[Rongway]

This is a first suggested so far on this thread, and I mean I could see that. It wouldn't change the feel of the class by much, it would change our alignment with buffs
(I think)
I'm not gonna math it.

Not anything to worry about. Deslyxic's recommendation only shortens the cast time, not the recast time. The 5s Dualcast period would remain the same; we'd just have an extra 0.5s of mobility per Dualcast, which could be a lot of extra mobility, actually.

[Milkbeard]

recast time.

Oh! Missed that bit. Then yea, in that case, it wouldn't change anything other than giving us more time to skate. Guess I forgot that healers have the 1.5 sec cast times, not a whole stinking 1.5 GCD. (I don't do much content as a healer if you haven't guessed).

[Deslyxic]

Not anything to worry about. Deslyxic's recommendation only shortens the cast time, not the recast time.

Yes, if it wasn't clear it's 1.5s cast with 2.5s recast, like SMN Ruin. That's from where the 3.5s of movement every two GCDs come.