The Red Mage Video Analysis and Theorycrafting thread.

[Callinon]

The reason is simply because the current ranged group is shared only by two other jobs, red mage is classified as ranged DPS, and it seems the easist place for him to fit. All other classifications are still possible, but I feel like that SE might want to avoid bloating the equipment types any further given how many jobs will be in the expansion.

There are 4 ranged dps jobs... 2 each of physical and magical dps. RDM seems to be both of those things but since their physical damage comes from melee strikes (or seems to anyway), I'd probably lump them in with BLM and SMN as a caster dps specifically.