Red Mage Changes

[Bhearil]

In theory RDM have access to insta res at will, but in practice a RDM will run dry if he res more than 1 person per minute since he lacks any kind of mp regen outside Lucid Dreaming, so realistically speaking he has the same ressing power as a SMN, with the difference that he can frontload for example 2 res on 1 minute as long as he doesnt need to res for a while to recover mp (that also affects to RDM Mana Shift btw)

Also the heal is pretty meh outside soloing/4 man dungeons and Embolden is by far the worst group buff of the entire game. Even Brotherhood adds more raid damage and dont forget the extra chakras suplied to the monk as a bonus, plus its a pain to coordinate burst on the initial 4 seconds window to get the most of it. Even using it as a selfish buff the RDM is unable to land his full burst combo due to lack of time (4 gcd for the 3 empowered weaponskills + finisher>> 4 seconds)

On other games RDM is often portrayed as a jack of all trades probably half dps half support, but here on his current state Summoner not only outdamage him by FAR, but also can res, have better mp regen AND better raid buffs to boot.

Unless things change on 5.0 seems that they designed RDM to be a dps first with some support skills second, because a laughable raid buff with the ability to res (healing is not even worth mentioning on high level content aside preparing an instacast when no targets near) doesnt justify being the barrel bottom of the dps

Its been confirmed that RDM is receiving both aoe and single target buffs but nothing specific yet, but they mentioned both RDM and BLM are being outperformed badly by the SMN and they try to bring RDM dps similar to SMN while giving BLM the magic dps crown