Quote Originally Posted by jdgev View Post
I don't understand what kind of self-respecting RDM wouldn't consider Embolden+Verraise+Vercure utility, but you are certainly living the dream huh. Oh, I guess according to you... Dancers and Bards aren't support either guys, they are just DPS! And healers are just glorified 1 button dps right? ... dude. Support jobs EXIST and they are within the dps role. Paladin is also a support focused tank (although badly implemented). It's not hard to understand. You are playing a job with strong support hating on it's support, and wishing it had the damage to compete with melees. That won't happen. Red Mage is an ALL AROUND DPS, so stop trying to discredit it's support which is a major part of it's gameplay.

Also, you are literally the only one here saying RDM should be higher than SMN in damage lol... that makes 0 sense. What they need is to fix the horrible job that is SMN right now.

Thank god RDM is at least a job Square Enix seems to understand well and has improved upon every expansion. They just need to buff all caster dps and we good.

EDIT: Please go look at RDM in the other FF games before anyone claims they should remove support abilities... it's not hard.... just type "Red Mage in ff games" or something in google and voila.
If you use Vercure to do anything but ready Dualcast in downtime in group content you are using it wrong. And RDM is not a spatula, it is a DPS. See that red around the Job icon? And there is no support role, it doesn't exist. rDPS buffs aren't support, they are the DPS of the person using them. It's clear you don't do high end content. And I've stated why SMN should be higher, and judging by the likes I'm getting...well, it's clear that others spoken on the matter by proxy