Red Mage could use some help.

[Dualgunner]

Welcome to BLM, friend.

And it's simple: RDM is the "jack of all trades" job in every FF game ever. One could argue that Verflare/Verholy are ALREADY stronger than anything the job should ever have had.

Yep. I don't even think anything else needs to be said about it. You said yourself it is capable of doing the content, it just isn't insanely strong like SMN, but coupled with its simplicity and utility (yes Embolden could use a buff to include magic damage just like I said before), there is nothing wrong with it being the weakest caster job.

“A jack of all trades is a master of none, but oftentimes better than a master of one.”
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/jack_...master_of_none

Let's look at the trades of which RDM is a jack in:
Swordplay, white magic, and black magic.

They're weaker swordsmen than say, Samurai. They're weaker black mages than black mage, and they're weaker white mages than white mage. Their strength, wherein "jack of all trades" comes in, is their ability to combine these various traits in which they are weak, to create an art which compensates the weaknesses of each art separately.

That's my argument against "RDM is a joat and should be weak because of it."

[Llugen]

“A jack of all trades is a master of none, but oftentimes better than a master of one.”

*Squints* Soooo you agree with me...? Good.

[Dualgunner]

*Squints* Soooo you agree with me...? Good.

Not really. I edited a bit to elaborate.

Also, losing damage by using Vercure isn't really bad design, it's a perfect niche. What other DPS jobs can do that? None. The ability to save the raid by using 2-3 heal GCDs and netting a marginal potency loss is significantly impressive for a DPS job to have, regardless of rez dispensing ability.

The problem comes when RDM's damage is already tuned around simply having them as skills.