Red Mage: I am not a Back line class

[Elexia]

Think there's a bit of misinformation here..for one thing, RDM for the longest was the only job in the game that could solo the gods and minor HNMs (simurgh, roc, Ash dragon etc)..secondly it was a community problem that kept RDMs "in the back row" since I mean, RDM is on pretty much every non-heavy front-line set of armor/accessories in the game, including more than adequate haste gear, sword skill (especially at 99 cap), even a spell that grants them double attack.

So if anything it wasn't SE that ruined the job, like always it was players that ruined a job.

First, DO NOT give rdm a refresh spell, from the moment you got that spell in XI, you became nothing more than a glorified battery charger. this will also give players more incentive to carry items that recover/refresh MP.

BRDs in XIV aren't told to just sit back and only refresh lol. Giving another job Refresh would help more than hurt honestly. especially given the endurance style fights SE are creating.

[Vanguard319]

BRDs in XIV aren't told to just sit back and only refresh lol. Giving another job Refresh would help more than hurt honestly. especially given the endurance style fights SE are creating.

maybe not, but you can't fairly compare the two. rdm was a melee class, and was optimized for front-line fighting. Brd in xiv has the advantage of a ranged weapon, and is pretty much well suited for rear line fighting because of that range advantage. You can argue that rdm has access to attack magic, but you had a very limited MP pool when compared to whm or blm, and most of that was used refreshing/hasting/healing the rest of the party. The only ways you were able to fight as a rdm in a party was if you had a scholar as main heal, due to being the only other mage that got a convert-like ability.