How Would You Design Red Mage!?

[Jinko]

PS: The reason I am so adamant about RDM haviing comparable damage is because it's going to get benched otherwise. FFXI readily proved this, and was aggravated by the fact that people were desperate for heals. Debuffs/buffs/"utility" never make up for lacking damage, and never will. That being said, I agree that better to have no Red Mage at all than to have the mistakes from FFXI repeated here.

I agree with this, if you make the class melee you have to make it comparable to other melee it terms of either damage or usefulness otherwise it will just get benched.

We already have situations were X class stacked by 5 plus 2 healers and a tank are occurring, so yea make it matter or don't bother at all.

On the other hand we don't want to see a situation where 5 rdm's go in shock/silence/paralyze the boss to oblivion either lol.