While I am reluctant to condemn XIV's iteration of RDM before we know more, this factlet is another potential nail in the coffin for me. If RDM is just going to be a back line nuker like BLM with a jump in / jump out gimmick then the XIV dev team have completely missed the point of RDM. I'm becoming increasingly suspicious that they don't really care, though - I mean, look at "SMN".

I love Red Mage as a job, both in its previous iterations and conceptually, but if SE aren't willing to alter the XIV job system to accommodate RDM then I would prefer it not to be added. The feathered hat is too important for us to have to tolerate a pretender.