Red Mage is Range Combat? (Discussion)

[Renik]

Then the question becomes this:

Why not just stay in melee range at all times then?

I'm sure they will have magic potency reduced when in melee range, RDM will be constantly moving in and out using charge and back flip ogcd skills, to build stacks, that's how I see it.

And to GMERC, if you're expecting a ranged mage, you're not getting what you wanted, I know it's not a 50/50 (for now) but more like 60/40 or 70/30 as Gumbercules said. SE used the tag ranged DPS but during the keynote it was described as ranged/melee hybrid.