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

[Ardox]

Embolden goes from 10% to 2% on 20 sec; it's an average of 5% buff for 20 sec; it's 7% for the first 16 seconds ... Brotherhood is 5% for 15 sec.
Explain me how embolden is worst than Brotherhood

[Dualgunner]

Embolden goes from 10% to 2% on 20 sec; it's an average of 5% buff for 20 sec; it's 7% for the first 16 seconds ... Brotherhood is 5% for 15 sec.
Explain me how embolden is worst than Brotherhood

30% chance to gain chakra when anybody affected by it uses a weaponskill. It would be similar if during embo's duration we had passive mana generation.

Also consider the job giving it vastly outdpses RDM, if we're gonna do 1:1 comparisons.

[Bhearil]

30% chance to gain chakra when anybody affected by it uses a weaponskill. It would be similar if during embo's duration we had passive mana generation.

Also consider the job giving it vastly outdpses RDM, if we're gonna do 1:1 comparisons.

Someone did the math and the damage it brings Brotherhood is in fact, superior to Embolden despite Monk personal damage being really close to the top.

Embolden wouldnt be so bad if they gave it to a high dps class such as Samurai, giving him a small raid buff to compensate for his high damage and avoiding a class to become too op (anyone still remembers 2.0 bards pre nerf when they were basically BLMs with bow, instacast and crazy utility that some people made raids with 4 bards as dps?). Problem is that they gave it to the lowest dps job that utility wise only have a res on high content, not counting the fact its been years since we are on a physical meta, which detracts from bringing casters unless they are really good