Quote Originally Posted by Llugen View Post
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1. Don't call me friend, I don't like you.
2. "Jack of all trades" hurr durr. This isn't a classic FF title, we have 3 roles, Healers, DPS, and Tanks. Red Mage is in the DPS role, not the special green and red Support role that doesn't exist.
3. Simplicity != lower DPS, Yoshi said as much in a live letter. Utility is incredibly poor, see other posts and try to read with an open mind instead of the "Well BLM has it worse so there" attitude you've got.
4. Vercure has never, ever saved a party from a wipe unless you count panic Vercures when the entire party is above 80% health. Dualcasting it is a loss of 540 or 570 potency, and you're dealing no other damage during that time unless you have oGCD's up. Also it's very MP inefficient, costing nearly 10% of your mana Dualcasting it.

Everyone on here supporting Red Mage buffs likes Red Mage, we dislike that the job has been reduced to "Progression Babysitter". Nobody said it should be the strongest either, we all just want it to be competitive after progression is over. When your team is making no mistakes or few enough that healers can handle the sporadic deaths, there's nothing special about bringing Red Mage.