Job Feedback: RDM

[Vejjiegirl]

I frequently see RDMs with Battle High/Battle Fever so they're obviously capable of good damage/kills.

The only reason why your seeing so many Red Mages with battle high is because they are the gods of kill stealing. Red Mage in pvp is a very bad job compared to the other two Magic Ranged DPS.
Just because a job is capable at getting battle high/battle fever doesn't mean they are capable at good damage/kills, half the time it just means they are just do some sort of Ranged attack damage to targets that are already near death in frontline.

RDM just doesn't have the damage Potential and pressure that the other Magic DPS jobs have, not even remotely close.

And yet there is absolutely nothing "bad" about RDM so you point is irrelevant.

1. Red Mage has just 10k HP and part of your burst rotation requires you to go into melee range of your target.
2. Most of the time due to poor netcode and lag you need to also take Bolt in order to even catch a moving target to do sword combos on them.
3. The other two Magic DPS jobs can do much higher numbers than Red Mage and are much more safe to use due to being able to attack from a distance rather than needing to get close to enemies.
4. Red Mage burst is very slow between Sword Combos and there is a bad delay for Verholy/Verflare which can be prevented much easier by healers than say a Summoner bursting.
5. Flunge costs way too much, the heavy is just 3 seconds, and its not Off GCD making it pretty worthless in most situations.

like the OP said the best way to use red mage is to do the below combo:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bY4BCBbG4j8

(note I did not use Monomachy in the combo the numbers are actually about 10% higher for dmg)

This is the fastest combo you can do as a Red Mage, Building your 1-2 on something else (healer or tank?) then moving to your actual target to do the rotation in the video.
Sadly this dmg pales in comparison to Black mage and Summoner.