Quote Originally Posted by Vexander View Post
I'm not entirely sure how true this statement is to be honest. Red Mage was always capable of a Hybrid playstyle, but in the turn based games at least, Red Mage was often best utilized by making it behave like a Black Make, using its strongest nuking spells, usually at a distance for combat. Certainly it could heal and that was great when the healer went down or was out of mana, but from what I know of how people played those classic Final Fantasy games, Red Mage mainly nuked.
RDM has been a hybrid since the original FF. It never has been able to use the strongest blk or wht spells in the FF console series.