Why the other casters need buffs and Red Mage does not need a nerf.

[PrismaticDaybreak]

Hello everyone, I just wanted to post this thread to hopefully derail the "RDM can do all of these things, nerf them omg" bandwagon. A common argument I'm seeing is that we have over the top damage along with fantastic utility and a fairly useful heal.

1. The over the top damage, which is only over the top when contrasted with the difficulty to payoff ratio to the other 2 casters, does not go hand in hand with the useful heal. If being able to very occasionally throw off a useful heal in exchange for DPS is OP, you must be absolutely railing at Erase which is oGCD, scales off INT and removes a DoT. Vercure is not oGCD, you're exchanging 240+ potency worth of damage by using it once, and at least 540 if you dualcast it. Vercure is an emergency tool and that's it, using it otherwise, aside from gaining dualcast in between phase changes (Before Ame-No-Murakomo spawns for example), is pointless.