Red Mage could use some help.

[Maero]

If you compare a good RDM to less skilled players, RDM comes out looking godly.

If you compare RDM to equally skilled players who know the fight and rarely make mistakes, RDM doesn’t look so great.

The devs have put themselves in an awkward position. RDM is difficult to balance in a satisfactory manner: it’s a fairly low-damage DPS Job with utility that is amazing at the start of progression and becomes more and more irrelevant as everyone skills up.

Very much this ^
Granted yes i out dps other jobs some blm, Nin and even Sam but the fact is someone that would know said jobs would out dps me, not necesarilly because they are better but because the job itself(Red Mage) is lower damage.
Same could be said if playing Blm