If Red Mage were in FFXIV ARR... It would be like this!

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Not enough sword + magic. Too many spells and abilities, too. I can't really wrap my brain around why you'd give the job Refresh when it was the downfall of the job last time. That said, my sig, yadda yadda.

I admit that with classes being what they are, it is very difficult to make a hybrid design split evenly between melee and magic, but I personally don't want to see a return of what effectively ruined RDM for me.

Like a Red Mage always was? Being capable of doing everything, at the cost of not doing it as well as dedicated jobs?

Except this paradigm didn't work in FFXI because by nature MMORPGs encourage focusing on a particular role. The aesthetic and base concept of the RDM stays the same (pimp hat, sword-wielding magic user) but the mechanics and approach to the job has to be different for it to actually work.