Maybe RDM need....

[Jkap_Goat]

You do you. Don't drop lines like "If you wanna do damage go play BLM" and not expect responses like mine. End of the day like it or not, this is a Trinity MMO. Red Mage is a DPS. It's job is doing damage or facilitating damage dealing. Gimping it in that because you want it to be half healer (in a game where healing is already beyond overpowered) will only lead to it being unplayed in high end content.

Maybe you don't care, but I do, and I too surprisingly am a paying customer.

Red mage is never going to do damage like Black mage. Never. And yes, if you want to do more damage as a caster, go play black mage becuase that's what you want to do right? Red mage is a red mage, a mixture of black and white, yes it is a DPS job but in it's core, it's identity; it's a hybrid. Look up what red mage is.

From what I'm reading from these forms lately, red mage is not even considered being played on high content and only practice parties so what am I missing?

People are asking to get rid of red mages utilities and don't know what the job identity is. If red mage does the same level of damage a Black mage does, people would be asking for a Balance and a Nerf to red mage. Whether you like it or not there will never be no perfect balance and Red mage is never going to be a massive damage dealer like black mage