Red Mage: I am not a Back line class

[Molly_Millions]

Prolly be better to keep the casting time unless the spell is deliberately short ranged like a WS simply because you can create distance between you and your opponent for the spell finisher, or start the combo from afar depending on which method is used, which would already give RDM some dynamic advantages over melee jobs.

RDM could have flood, which could work like Flare, a self targeting AOE. Some water based enhancing skill, either a WS or spell to open a combo ending in Flood would be the bomb-diggity.