Anyone else wish RDM was a PURE support class?

[Dualgunner]

You are correct. The way "white magic" works is that they draw aether from the earth to use their spells, and "black magic" is when aether is drawn from the body. RDM isn't utilising the teachings of both Thaumaturgy and Conjury, rather they use the crystal medium to draw aether from both themselves and the earth, mix it together like a cookpot, and use this mix of aether to perform "Red Magic", which draws from all 6 elements.

I recall from the Conjurer questline that the girl was actually drawing upon her own aether to use conjury. It was extremely bad and killing her, I remember that as well, but I do wonder if the source of the magic is the only difference really?

Note: I'm interested in learning so if you do know and can just blow that out of the water go ahead x3