Seeing Red - A Complete Red Mage Guide

[Garotte14]

How are you guys feeling about the support aspects of RDM compared to Bard and Machinist?

Rbstr hit the nail on the head. RDM will have some utility with its cure and raise, but those are more for emergencies. I.E. healer dies in dungeon, you get to save the day with a raise and heal the tank to prevent a wipe.

Other than instances like that, you should be focused purely on dealing damage.

[Rawrz]

Rbstr hit the nail on the head. RDM will have some utility with its cure and raise, but those are more for emergencies. I.E. healer dies in dungeon, you get to save the day with a raise and heal the tank to prevent a wipe.

Other than instances like that, you should be focused purely on dealing damage.

When prog starts to become farm and we switch over to solo healing strats, RDM might become a real option as an off healer. One or two Vercures the entire fight and their micro-benediction that is Erase on that sweet 90 second cool down. Either way it is going to be an awesome experience. The best part about 2.0 and 3.0 healers were their ability to really shape the future of an encounter. The strong control over survivability and DPS. Its strangly refreshing to see an inverse of thise. Strong innate DPS with some control over survivability.

An "emergency" healer as a caster dps is so fascinating.

[Bardo]

RDM will have some utility with its cure and raise, but those are more for emergencies.

Things go wrong fairly often in this game though.
I think you guys might be underestimating just how amazing this utility could be due to Dualcast and Swiftcast.