Red Mage could use some help.

[Jandor]

The problem with magic vulnerability (and not just talking about it being on impact which is a bad idea) is that only 3 members of the party primarily have their damage as magic - and even then, a decent chunk of redmages damage isn't magical.

Giving Piercing vulnerability would just add to the issues that Ranged Comps have already.

I agree with the Embolden change and the general direction of the change, but I feel that it would be better to increase the APM of the class in order to gain more utility

Healers would benefit from 5% magic vuln too, and maybe tanks (not sure on how big a chunk of PLD/DRK damage is magic.)

RDM with piercing debuff would just let you swap DRG out for it if you wanted to run a caster comp without nerfing your BRD/MCH, it wouldn't stack with Dragoons debuff and therefore wouldn't make physical ranged anymore wanted than they already are.

I agree that RDM should be altered a bit more to raise the skill ceiling, but realistically any sort of redesign that in-depth isn't going to happen until 5.0. Was just trying to think of some changes that could be done in 5 minutes () that could shake things up for RDM and the meta raid comp.