RDM thoughts and tuning needed

[Leidiriv]

Hah. Now that's a funny joke. Square has shown nothing but contempt for red mage since release and I don't see that changing any time soon unfortunately. Can't have it competing with the golden child black mage after all..

How is giving us the tools to align with the party's buff windows and making our melee combo even stronger, along with giving us tools for movement "showing nothing but contempt for Red Mage"?

[Archwizard]

One thing that has been bothering me with SHB RDM:
When I was doing lower level duties, Verthunder and Veraero still gets replaced by Verflare and Verholy respectively. If Swiftcast CD is ready, I often like to use Swiftcast Verthunder/aero after I use my melee combo, but I can't because those spells got replaced by Verflare/holy, and I still technically didn't "learn" them in those lower level duties.

I'd like Verflare/holy not to replace Verthunder/aero in the lower level duties, unless if it got fixed in the hot patches.

Saw in another thread that it's a known bug.

How is giving us the tools to align with the party's buff windows and making our melee combo even stronger, along with giving us tools for movement "showing nothing but contempt for Red Mage"?

I think they're mostly just betraying their bitterness that RDM's damage potential is on the lower-to-middling side of DPS jobs while BLM is near the peak.

That aside, I do agree with their sentiment that our "fairly low" Raise potential doesn't mean we're any better at DPS, and at present the "tools for movement" received in ShB are lackluster at best.