Red mage 7.0 Wishlist

[Silverquick]

Now I want to put a hot fact out here that most of you, for sure aren't seeing or realizing. Self-mitigation is redundant outside of all content other than expert roulette.
Self mitigation is redundant, it doesn't negate death in any situation in which you have the slightest coordination with a healer and or tank. Every mechanic and attack *in the game* has a mitigation threshold. You meet the threshold using group mitigation. If you do not meet it, someone in the party dies. Self-mitigation is redundant because mitigation thresholds are the bare minimun expectation for surviving an AOE and are balanced around players not self-mitigating.

This is a fact ladies and gentlemen of this forum. You may not agree with it, but it is how people who clear hardcore content know exactly what moves to pop. You plan the mit, and then execute the completion of the mechanic.

Sumn personal mit, BLM personal mit, all DPS personal mit. Is redundant, a literal waste of button space.

I challenge you to come up with a single mechanic in the entire game that requires it, (spoiler) there are none. Because they are all balanced to be handled without it.

Regardless, I will add it to the post as something red mages think would be fun to use. Is it needed? It is not, never has been, never will be.

Hot fact, that's incorrect.

That is way too many assumptions. First of all you assume... the healer or tank is going to be doing that. You assume... that someone is covering you. You assume... you're not going to end up outside the healers radius and be able to do that.

That is not what happens in reality...

That's what happens in a perfect world. And I can tell you one thing it definitely doesn't apply to Alliance Raids. They are chaotic and f'd up half the time. You can't control what happens there.

And I can tell you now that Personal Mit as you call it has saved my az a million times on SMN. I don't have to worry about anything like that. I have two of them, and almost never out of them, unless I really screw up. Not so on RDM. I have to constantly Vercure myself. And in your words in a Raid that is going to cost you DPS.

RDM is actually behind the other mage jobs in staying power in combat when it clearly should be one of it's strengths over and above the others.

[Rongway]

That is way too many assumptions. First of all you assume... the healer or tank is going to be doing that.

You are absolutely allowed to assume that the tanks and healers will be doing their jobs when you balance duties. That's the whole point of forcing tanks and healers in the party composition.

And every bit of content in this game that actually cares about job balance is balanced around the idea that it can be cleared with the DDs providing no self-healing and no self-mitigation because there are tanks and healers who are expected to provide enough to cover the minimum requirements for surviving the unavoidable damage in any given fight.

If people die because they failed to avoid avoidable damage, that's a player problem, not a "this job needs personal mitigation" problem.