Red Mage idea

[kazaran]

As logn as RDM doesn't become an early over pwoered unbalanced mess.

They are the earlier swashbuckler type. So their mains should be En-spells on swords. Weaking defense spells to enhance their malee, stuns, swift attack combo and leave it at that.

Leave elemental nuking to other mages and mainly blms.

Otherwise RDM will be back line again, so it's focus shoudl be minor spells to enhance sword atacks and malee weakness on mobs.

Perhaps they can have hp m p drain spells like Dancer on XI, to enhance them but also the party as long as they are enganged on the mob (s) keeping them up front.

[AceofRains]

Technically it wouldn't nuking. I would be in favor of making blizzard and water sub skills just so red mage can have them for small extra damage against enemies. This way red mage also has an "elementalist" touch to it because it could exploit all elemental weaknesses. IF we had a free cast system they could merely throw in these spells for extra damage. It wouldn't make them OP either especially considering lower base melee damage and lower base spell damage. Make it a point to combine the two for higher damage.