How Would You Design Red Mage!?

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Well what exactly does it need now? Another back line mage? Maybe, but since they allowed for 2 choices for new jobs in the poll it could be assumed that 2 new jobs are coming. Just from a numbers perspective we have 5 DOW and 2 DOM, so if RDM were slotted under DOM then adding both RDM as well as a back line mage (Arcanist?) at the same time would bring the numbers up to 5 to 4. Similarly we have 4 front line classes and 3 ranged classes so adding RDM and a back line mage would bring that up to 5 and 4 as well, maintaining a similar proportion.

Now as for role-wise, since all the direct debuffing spells were striped from the mages skills there is no dedicated debuffing class (admittedly there isn't a whole lot of need for one since almost every job has some way to inflict some enfeebling status but most of these are either unreliable or undesirable).

Personally I was waiting till they released the results of the poll before advocating my favorite job, if no one voted for Red Mage then all this discussion is somewhat pointless (but considering the popularity of this topic that seems unlikely).