Yet another redmage balance idea

[Wayfinder3]

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Giving rdm situational utility that SMN already has and see's no viable success with besides the first 15secs of an encounter is NOT what the job needs, Embolden needs to be neutral or their damage needs to be increased to allow the current embolden to remain unchanged. Giving rdm a utility that helps it synergize with casters will only cause more disembowel situations where we have unhealthy synergies between roles. when you guys made that decision, did you think about the melee or tank in your party? if you want niche utility for your triple cast comp, then ask for something akin to hypercharge so your tanks aren't boned, i fail to see why getting a worse embolden would be better than a better equivalent to hypercharge.

NIN DRG and BRD are powerful because of how they preform on their own, they're not dependent on each other to provide their raw utility and aside from bards personal damage, they're just as powerful to any comp regardless of what party members they have. Bard's utility is god tier regardless of comp, disembowel needs at least 1 ranged to be good, trick attack is universally powerful even in a comp of SAM BLM RDM with no type of synergy. Embolden or a Magic variant on the other hand is heavily dependent on what your group brings and that isn't something we want. RDM not buffing casters/healers is perfectly fine as there is never a need for more than 1 caster. If you want to bring unconventional party comps, thats fine but the jobs should never be balanced so that those compositions are more successful than the standard comp(2 melee, 1 ranged, 1 caster) or else we end up in the double ranged meme comp from HW and early SB. Tl;dr catering to every possible comp doesn't make a job good if it comes at the expense of other jobs within that comp. picking between 2 damage buffs is far inferior to just giving rdm 1 neutral buff that would accomplish the exact same thing you're asking for.