Give other classes the versatility that Red Mage enjoys, please

[Kes13a]

wouldnt it be great if we could just get rid of healers, maybe tanks too, make everyone lower dps, able to tank and heal and rez... basically just same things with different skins for weapons

are rdms useful with their rez's? sure, as a healer I certainly dont mind them being in a party if they decide to help.. which they dont always but meh. I am rather against making all classes essentially have the same utilities with different names. at that point I'll return to WoW or any other of a horde of games that already do that in the interests of "balance"

Nice thing about ffxiv is, if you want the utility... play a rdm, its easy

[Fhaerron]

Yes?


I sometimes have multiple jobs of 'insert any other job' in my groups for various kinds of content.


What's the issue?

[ZattanaWen]

TC you're conflating RDM's usefulness in a couple optional areas of the game with their usefulness in the rest of the game.

They're useful in places where you're either soloing or operating in a non-traditional party config where you just may not have a healer (i.e. deep dungeons and eureka).

But in regular duties and raids, where there are always dedicated healers, RDMs are much less sought after. As others have said, they shouldn't be healing/raising in those situations. Yes, if stuff hits the fan and there's an RDM available to heal, great. But again, that comes at the cost of less DPS.

I love RDM, and I definitely use it in Eureka. But I don't really use it in duties.