Quote Originally Posted by silentwindfr View Post
personally, i think the red mage need to be reinvented for a mmorpg, being a melee, that can cast attack spell, heal spell, buff and debuff is overpowered.
the concept has already been executed successfully in WoW with the Enhancement Shaman. The way it stays balanced is that the class has a stacking buff from autoattacks that makes their next spellcast cost less/cast faster (up to eventually casting nothing and being an instant cast), so they have to choose between throwing a heal or throwing a lightning bolt. if they throw out dps spells their dps is on par with the other classes, but if they throw heals it's obviously going to output lower dps. furthermore, the class has an extremely small mana pool so it can really only cast 3-4 heals before it's out of mana if it isn't taking advantage of the stacking buff.

or to take a different route, they could just give RDM different stances to allow it to dps/heal/whatever, only switchable outside of combat.