[Job Adjustmentｓ Manifesto] RDM

Because Convert gear, Conserve MP gear, Haste gear, Refresh gear, and Cure Potency gear meant absolutely nothing in a ToAU merit?

Could people skate by without gear? They could try. But that's not because they were performing better. They simply had different standards, and different criteria for success. Considering some people are attempting to argue in other threads here that it was mathematically impossible for any Red Mage to ... do their job, essentially, I dare say there's absolutely no way a RDM could perform adequately to some standards without gear.

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Originally Posted by Supersun

Except in a TouA merit party where a naked Rdm could essentially perform the same job as a fully geared Rdm?.

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Obviously they performed better, but when compared to other jobs like DD jobs where the difference between a good DD and a bad DD is night and day...yeah, Rdm was certainly nothing special to speak about.

The only thing that really mattered was MP, refresh, and a cure staff. The difference between an AH level Rdm and a fully pimped one in a colibri meritpo party was virtually unnoticeable.

The only things you could really do to make meriting easier was have refresh gear.

EDIT: Answered yourself. Actually, how was that any different from Brd?

Okay, so let's assume then that Red Mage had a free pass on gear acquisition in the pass compared to other jobs. Does that somehow mean that Red Mage is entitled to a free pass forever?

You've already said it yourself, the difference between crap gear and good gear is night and day on most other jobs. I have absolutely no issue applying this to Red Mage now.

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Originally Posted by Neisan_Quetz

EDIT: Answered yourself. Actually, how was that any different from Brd?

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At least their skill determines the potency of their spells. There are still bards to this day doing dyna sandy for that hat.

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Originally Posted by Greatguardian

Okay, so let's assume then that Red Mage had a free pass on gear acquisition in the pass compared to other jobs. Does that somehow mean that Red Mage is entitled to a free pass forever?

You've already said it yourself, the difference between crap gear and good gear is night and day on most other jobs. I have absolutely no issue applying this to Red Mage now.

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I don't either, but buff durations shouldn't be the difference between a good red mage and a bad one.

How about the potency of the buff itself?

I mean what if instead someone only got the full 15% haste from the spell if they had a full set of enhancing gear and the spell itself innately lasted 5 minutes.

Progress!

I'd be fine with that. I'd also be a lot more selective when dealing with Red Mages. I wonder how they'd take it.

perhaps I'm alone in this but I look at the RDM section in that manifesto and still think RDM is getting screwed over yet again, giving us the ability to hit harder and while wielding a weapon would be nice, not screwing over our enmity would be nice, I know many of you wont agree with me but all I can say is
thanks a lot SE, you basically made RDM pretty much suck in parties and it doesn't look like its gonna get any better

RDM used to be a viable tank so if need be they could tank while the main tank was down, not anymore, RDM is an okay healer, but I didnt level RDM to main heal and I refuse to do it, I didnt level RDM to be a buff whore or a refresh whore, I leveled RDM because of how it WAS, and the devs have basically screwed that....to be honest, their vision of how they want RDM to be leaves nothing but a sour taste in my mouth, so in closing I say only this

thanks for nothing SE

Rdm tanking was only good on mobs you couldn't melee on in the first place, if your tank (which I assume was meleeing) went down and you need the Rdm to a) be subbing Nin and b) backup tank you had other problems.
If it was a mob you couldn't melee, the (pre nerf) Rdm was the better tank in the first place. And the sub would be another Rdm/anyone else.

i want a job trait that turns buffs cast on a red mage into an aura effect for nearby party members.
cuts down on cycling, and could even promote frontlining.
overpowered? yup. but if buffing's gonna be my niche' i expect to be great at it.

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Originally Posted by wildsprite

perhaps I'm alone in this but I look at the RDM section in that manifesto and still think RDM is getting screwed over yet again, giving us the ability to hit harder and while wielding a weapon would be nice, not screwing over our enmity would be nice, I know many of you wont agree with me but all I can say is
thanks a lot SE, you basically made RDM pretty much suck in parties and it doesn't look like its gonna get any better

RDM used to be a viable tank so if need be they could tank while the main tank was down, not anymore, RDM is an okay healer, but I didnt level RDM to main heal and I refuse to do it, I didnt level RDM to be a buff whore or a refresh whore, I leveled RDM because of how it WAS, and the devs have basically screwed that....to be honest, their vision of how they want RDM to be leaves nothing but a sour taste in my mouth, so in closing I say only this

thanks for nothing SE

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What can we say? RDM dared to be versatile and it got hit with the nerf bat because of it. Wish they had build on RDM tanking rather than eradicate it, if only for the sake of those who enjoyed it. Besides, more tanks around is never a bad thing.

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Originally Posted by Doombringer

i want a job trait that turns buffs cast on a red mage into an aura effect for nearby party members.
cuts down on cycling, and could even promote frontlining.
overpowered? yup. but if buffing's gonna be my niche' i expect to be great at it.

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that is actually one of the best ideas I have ever herd, mind you it won't take us to front line in current situations seeing as its usually 1-2 mele on the mob to avoid TP spam.

As I said in my post on the main manifesto discussion, I was confused as to why exactly we were being referred to as "Support specialists who excel at transforming their allies from mere mortals into demigods with their enhancements". Corsair, Bard, Summoner and even White mage have more enhancing capability than we do, so this statement shows just how little SE understand their own game and how distant they are from the playerbase.

To be honest, I am a true support Red mage and an enfeebler. Have been for seven years or so since I started playing FFXI and it was my first Lv.75 job. To all of you that enjoy melée or tanking, all power to you and continue to push our job to its limits. That's one of our strengths; the flexibility. SE does continue to confuse us by doing such things as showing off the Sagasinger with a Red mage.

What I personally would ask for though, are more enfeebling and enhancing spells. Addle will no longer be exclusive at Lv.96, as White mages will be able to use it then. What most of us don't want is to just get recycled stuff from other jobs - we want our sense of identity back, and for Corsair, Bard, /rdm and Scholar (especially bloody Scholars) to stop being gifted things that were once our forté.

I had an idea similar to the one mentioned about aurae, but it would work like Avatar's Favour. The issue I think the original poster of the idea didn't realise is that, if you want to be freed from the backline, having a Refresh aura for example, isn't going to let you do that. It's going to have to be some other effect like a mini Fast Cast aura, spell interruption rate or any number of other crazy things you could imagine. This would put us back into Abyssea parties, and would also give us something new that other jobs don't have (yet).

SE have already used this same code with items like Mextli Harness and the "Sphere" system. Depending on what your role and your playstyle are, there could be a few different aura spells. We have the fortitude to stand frontline - even temporarily - and give a Paladin their aura, for example.

well, the way i look at it.. we have more melee related buffs than mage. so i'd see an rdm aura'ing haste, phalanx, enspell, and gain-str or dex. then maybe regen2, refresh2 (in case you have any blu pld or drk around, but mainly cuz you'd be casting it on yourself anyway, so... free refresh aura) and a bar or 2 if needed.

i know that sounds like a lot but considering we're using composure, and we'd only have to cast on ourselves anyway, it's not a particularly heavy load.

then all any mages really need from you is refresh2, and that's assuming the aura range is to short for them to safely be within it.

sure it hasn't completely eliminated cycling, but it has SEVERELY cut it down.

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Originally Posted by Duelle

What can we say? RDM dared to be versatile and it got hit with the nerf bat because of it. Wish they had build on RDM tanking rather than eradicate it, if only for the sake of those who enjoyed it. Besides, more tanks around is never a bad thing.

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exactly, more tanks around is never a bad thing

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I had an idea similar to the one mentioned about aurae, but it would work like Avatar's Favour. The issue I think the original poster of the idea didn't realise is that, if you want to be freed from the backline, having a Refresh aura for example, isn't going to let you do that. It's going to have to be some other effect like a mini Fast Cast aura, spell interruption rate or any number of other crazy things you could imagine. This would put us back into Abyssea parties, and would also give us something new that other jobs don't have (yet).

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Yeah, an aura alone is not a solution. A nicety in cutting cycle blah, yes, but from the support perspective, it basically translates to saving X amount of MP by merely changing where you stand.

As is, my take on it was that the aura range would pretty short, like 5 yalms in any direction, for a total of 10 from the farthest points. Short of huge mobs, this would be more than enough space to his everyone else swinging with Haste, Refresh, Phalanx, Regen, and an Enspell. However, "melee" is a still missing ingredient in this, to which some have felt TP should be a cost in perpetuation (1-3 per tick), while I look at at it more as possibly using TP to further buff the buffs, so maybe 20% from the Haste spell is possible, Phalanx could get another 10 -DT or even straight up -DT%, and so on. The concept could also apply to debuffs and nukes, basically giving us a potential stance system where you could be playing more defensively while offering your offense, or going all out to further cripple a mob and do a bit more damage.

Aura is actually pretty terrible from a support perspective, because if I'm filling a support role I want to be out of AoE range, and I somehow don't see them giving us an aura that hits players beyond spellcasting range.

Well there would have to be some sacrifice or drawback, and really there is not anything you can do with RDM that does not step on someones toes in terms of mechanics or gameplay.

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Originally Posted by cidbahamut

Aura is actually pretty terrible from a support perspective, because if I'm filling a support role I want to be out of AoE range, and I somehow don't see them giving us an aura that hits players beyond spellcasting range.

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Then you just cast from range if that's the concern. Overall, the idea offers some MP savings, gained timed to swing without relying on a full set of gear, and the ability to plant buffs on others we either can't or would need a specialized sub for. Distance is, and has been an advantage for a long time. It technically doesn't need "more" to maintain an advantage.

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Originally Posted by Seriha

Then you just cast from range if that's the concern.

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So basically this will never be useful on anything that matters then.

Well they sure aren't going to be giving us hastega. Besides, something like this is more naturally aimed for monsters where enfeebles aren't as needed.

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Originally Posted by cidbahamut

So basically this will never be useful on anything that matters then.

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By all means ignore the perks with consideration of current spells and mechanics, but as a piece of an overall greater update? Yeah, get out from under that bridge.

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That's just the thing, though. What is so wrong with simply getting full AF3+2 to increase buff duration? Job fixes and enhancements don't have to be universal. There has to be a legitimate difference an awesome, well geared RDM and a full AF1 RDM that doesn't use macros.

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Nothing wrong in getting it, it just defeats the purpose of scaling.

You mentioned Blink Tanking Vs Paladin and used Ochain as a refrence on making them an awesome tank.

But you forgot the unilateral adjustments to Paladin to Sentinel, Rampart, and all the other tweaks and toys they've given to Paladin in hopes to close the gap verses evasion/blink tanking. O-Chain may seal the deal for many, but it wasn't the grand total of what they gave PLD.

RDM, however, has been in a drought of buffs to their primary role. With the only thing before the level cap increase we received was Composure, which assisted ourselves great but did nothing else for the party. And EnII, which was too little, too late for melee debates, as the only level range EnII's are actually effective is 51-70, before the bottom drops out beneath it due to horrible mechanics.

Saboteur was nice, except that it doesn't work on NMs the way it should, and most NMs are still near fully or fully immune to the debuffs Saboteur would matter on. Refresh II, however, is expendable. If anything all I've seen between Refresh II and Abyssea is that players are unlearning how to control their MP expenses. Not that I don't mind the extra MP to give away, but it's no game changer.

No there really needs to be a reworking of Red Mage to make it into the image they're advertising now. I don't care so much about the Melee aspect as much as I do about the general functionality of the job. Melee can be (and likely will be unavoidable to be) included in this aspect, especially for use in low-man content, where I believe it should be applied. But that can be a part of a more global revamp for a job that just seems to be given the scraps at this point.

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Originally Posted by Inafking

I like what they had to say about enfbling magic. Like a lot of other jobs, even with capped skill it's useless without expensive / time consuming gear.

They did not mention enhancing magic, however. I'd like to see more than Refresh2 for RDM's exclusive buffs.

Also, where's the mele? I want my sword to be more useful. :mad:

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I'd like mine to be useful too.

Greetings red mages!

Thanks for all of your feedback and sorry to keep you waiting! Here are a handful of responses we got from the development team in regards to your questions and requests.

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Do you have any plans to enhance the viability of our sword-wielding proficiency?

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As was stated in the preface of the job adjustments concept, the core concept of these adjustments is to make each job useful in HNM fights as well as other battle-related content. That said, we mentioned that the job adjustments will focus on party structuring, but that doesn’t mean that we will not be looking into the sword-wielding proficiency of red mages. We are actually planning adjustments to red mage’s proficiencies in the upcoming version update.

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Make it possible to add enfeebling effects to En-spells.

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We have no plans for this at the moment. When looking at the current system, where enfeebles take place using magic and En-spells increase damage, we’re pretty satisfied with the current separation of the two.

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Add higher tier En-spells.

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Planning to add these during the next version update. However, this isn’t going to be the tier-III version, we are thinking about a different type of En-spell.

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Add an ability that enhances the effect of En-spells.

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We would like to look into perhaps having this take place through merit points.

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Make it possible for red mage to use Enlight and Endark.

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Enlight and Endark are special magic spells for paladin and dark knight respectively and we have no plans to add them to red mage at this time.

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Get rid of the 100% enfeeble resists on some monsters.

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In regards to monsters that are completely resistant to certain spells, there is a high possibility that we won’t make any significant changes. However, there aren’t really too many of these monsters, so in regards to adjustments making it possible to land enfeebling magic easier, we feel it would be better for red mage’s to experience this effect on a larger amount of monsters.

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Add new enhancing magic.

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Since enhancing magic is an area that red mages excel at, we would like to add something. We have been receiving a lot of ideas for enhancing magic and we will be keeping them in mind when exploring this subject.

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Will red mage be able to the use the higher tier Gravity?

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We are planning to make this spell a red mage-specific spell, but are continuing to evaluate it.

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Allow red mages to use one-hand sword weapon skills that can only be used by certain jobs and support jobs. We also want staff weapon skills.

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We will be looking into both of these along with the weapon skills revamp.

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Give red mage the “Fencer” job trait!

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We looked into this, however, if we were to add this it wouldn’t be a job trait. The possibility is pretty high that it would be in the form of equipment that a red mage could wear.

Except that the mobs that are immune are precisely those "hnms" and the others generally don't resist at all because the magic evasion of mobs is not balanced (it's either too high or too low). So there won't be changes in the usefulness of RDM against hnms : either refresh whore or bust. Honestly don't bother with enspell type stuff that will be most likely useless. I remember tier II enspell, they give ~ -10 magic evasion, that's quite useless tbh (subbing nin and using ninjustsu is better..).

yay info ^^ thanks Camate. just a thought on enhancing magic, at the very least it would be nice if we could single target anyone in pt with the Gain- spells. Whm will still be able to AoE it, and we can single target people to give them extra boost of stats that whm can't. Cause otherwise, why exactly do we have Gain-CHR? >.>

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Originally Posted by Camate

Planning to add these during the next version update. However, this isn’t going to be the tier-III version, we are thinking about a different type of En-spell.

We would like to look into perhaps having this take place through merit points.

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Before anyone asks about adding en-spell III, perhaps en-spell IIs should be improved. What is the purpose to the tier II en-spells charging up? (Did someone watch too much DBZ before this was implemented?) Why only have it proc on the first hit? There aren't that many Kraken Club RDMs out there to justify punishing dual wielders, double-attack builds, and Joyeuses.

And if there is a merit for improving en-spell potency, every other RDM merit would have to be awful to even consider upgrading it. "No, sorry, I don't have Slow III, Paralyze III, or Dia IV; I maxed out en-spell potency instead." Unless we are going to be able to cap the entire group of merits which would be awesome and would never happen.

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Originally Posted by Camate

In regards to monsters that are completely resistant to certain spells, there is a high possibility that we won’t make any significant changes. However, there aren’t really too many of these monsters, so in regards to adjustments making it possible to land enfeebling magic easier, we feel it would be better for red mage’s to experience this effect on a larger amount of monsters.

We are planning to make this spell a red mage-specific spell, but are continuing to evaluate it.

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Nearly every monster that matters is immune to at least one enfeeble. (And most more than that.) For example, you cannot land Gravity on any NM in Abyssea as far as I can tell, and I cannot think of a single casting NM in Abyssea that can be silenced.

This problem goes all the way back to Sky where no matter how well-geared you were you could not consistently land enfeebles on the Shijin, even with Elemental Seal. (Not sure how thing are now that we are past level 75.) Each one of the Jailers was immune to certain enfeebles, maybe my memory is faulty after all of these years, but I seem to remember a disproportionate number of them being immune to Paralyze II. This has been the main problem with Red Mage since I got to level 75 back before CoP- the job's only real function is Refresh, Haste, and back-up cures in nearly every important fight since our A+ skill spells are a coin flip at best in most of them.

Gain-Chr is to increase Circle Blade damage.

No, Really.

Can we get some clarification on the immunity to enfeebles answer? Do they mean monsters resistant to all enfeebles? Otherwise as it stands most of our enfeebles are useless on the majority on HNMs and making Rdm viable for a party play on HNMs won't happen as long as the skill they claim we are the best at is mostly useless on stronger NMs.

You can gravity Cep/Cirein, but it's a Oberon NM. There are easy NMs, and then there are Oberon NMs.

as far as all the enfeeb discussion goes, i agree it really has to be changed. personally in abyssea i can land any debuff on anything (that isn't immune of course) and it is pretty helpful. I can cripple a Durinn so it doesn't do crap all fight. but thats because of the god knows how much magic ACC+ i get from atmas as well as huge int and mnd. I'd imagine once 95/99 hits there will be a new big form of end game. I mean abyssea will always be there, and i doubt it will ever stop being the main form of exping, but gear-wise its only to 90.

So once people are forced to leave abyssea to get up to date gear from newer events (like voidwatch) they will have to get used to not being demi-gods anymore, and our enfeebs need to actually be POSSIBLE to stick on all the new NMs. You can't expect us to be enfeebl masters if you're just gonna make every HNM immune to it cause your afraid the spells you gave us will be too much

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Originally Posted by Camate

Planning to add these during the next version update. However, this isn’t going to be the tier-III version, we are thinking about a different type of En-spell.

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Interesting. I wonder what this means, since they already said they want to keep Enspells and Enfeebling separate.

There is an enspell-looking spell in the .dats labeled "stri", not sure what it would do. It's just a single spell though, not a line of them.

Blech. Mostly discouraging stuff here. The last thing I want on RDM is more party enhancement spells, especially single target ones. And enspell effects through merits? If the new merits are the same trade-off concept I can't imagine I'd choose enspell effect over other options.

All I could ask for is for our Saboteur job ability to add a good boost to magic accuracy when it comes to casting enfeebling magic.

I don't like the idea of having to rely on either BLM subjob for elemental seal every 10 minutes to guarantee it lands, or spamming the spell over and over until it does land because the saboteured enfeeble resisted when it comes to HNMs.

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Originally Posted by Merton9999

There is an enspell-looking spell in the .dats labeled "stri", not sure what it would do. It's just a single spell though, not a line of them.

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I always figured that "stri" stood for "Scholar Tabula Rasa [something]". You sure its an enspell and not brave/merton?

So I guess nothing really changed by much, and RDM pretty much got shafted once again, and again, and again. I am just baffled by some of the decisions that the SE team made. Give RDMs more SPECIFIC spells that actually works and useful instead of a little bit of this and a little bit of that crap.

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Originally Posted by Luvbunny

So I guess nothing really changed by much, and RDM pretty much got shafted once again, and again, and again. I am just baffled by some of the decisions that the SE team made. Give RDMs more SPECIFIC spells that actually works and useful instead of a little bit of this and a little bit of that crap.

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You're awfully in the know about what we're going to get despite the mostly vague details in the DEV post.

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Originally Posted by Patrik

Cause otherwise, why exactly do we have Gain-CHR? >.>

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/bst yo (extra words for word count limit)

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Originally Posted by Patrik

yay info ^^ thanks Camate. just a thought on enhancing magic, at the very least it would be nice if we could single target anyone in pt with the Gain- spells. Whm will still be able to AoE it, and we can single target people to give them extra boost of stats that whm can't. Cause otherwise, why exactly do we have Gain-CHR? >.>

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No thank you

I have nothing against giving buffs to other people but the LAST thing we need is another spell we have to cycle.

It won't be just one person. It'll be the entire party expecting you to cast gain Str or whatever on them.

Seriously, can we kill these single target party cycles already? They serve no point other than to kill your brain cells for a job that used to be one of the most active and exciting jobs in the game.

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In regards to our enfeebling, I've mentioned this before but we REALLY need some form of enfeeble to curb monster TP attacks. I mean it seems like there's 2 types of monsters, NMs that Slow and Paralyze would be nice on but are pretty much immune to one or the other if not both, and monsters like Shinryu where it's easily to land them but they don't do a **** thing.

Paralyze and Slow only really affect a monsters normal melee attacks, but those really aren't the threatening part of a fight. The TP attacks are, and currently even ninja the DDing/tanking job of death atm can enfeeble better then a Red Mage in that regard.

Thanks Camate for relaying the response. Please let the developers know that we appreciate the answers and to please continue providing ongoing feedback for us. The more open means of communication is greatly encouraged.

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Originally Posted by Camate

Greetings red mages!

As was stated in the preface of the job adjustments concept, the core concept of these adjustments is to make each job useful in HNM fights as well as other battle-related content. That said, we mentioned that the job adjustments will focus on party structuring, but that doesn’t mean that we will not be looking into the sword-wielding proficiency of red mages. We are actually planning adjustments to red mage’s proficiencies in the upcoming version update.

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This is much the answer I expected, and thank you for the reply. It is a deep concern for certain circles within the Red Mage Community that this aspect of the job has been somewhat neglected. We're thankful to hear that the Development Team are keeping an eye out for one of the selling points of the job.

As far as the specific adjustments, I speculate that we're included in the weapon skill adjustments and perhaps we shall be given a boost to our Sword and possibly Dagger Skill Rating as well.

This being said are there any plans in increasing the damage yeild/effect of Death Blossom, or perhaps a higher potency of the effect?

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We have no plans for this at the moment. When looking at the current system, where enfeebles take place using magic and En-spells increase damage, we’re pretty satisfied with the current separation of the two.

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I notice that enhancing effects, such as increased attack, critical hit chance/damage, and other such effects that could increase the performance of the Red Mage has not been disqualified by this statement.

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Planning to add these during the next version update. However, this isn’t going to be the tier-III version, we are thinking about a different type of En-spell.

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I'm looking forward to the mechanics seen in this. A question in relation: Is it possible for Enspell effects (Particuarly the new type of enspell) To assist in any bearing as to the damage output of Weapon Skills?

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We would like to look into perhaps having this take place through merit points.

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With the increase of various different kind of Merits accessible in the merit points system, can we expect that individual job categories will also receive an increase in maximum point allotment, like we have seen with Combat and Magic skills?

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Enlight and Endark are special magic spells for paladin and dark knight respectively and we have no plans to add them to red mage at this time.

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You'll find no quarrel with me here with that one. I'm in complete agreement.

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In regards to monsters that are completely resistant to certain spells, there is a high possibility that we won’t make any significant changes. However, there aren’t really too many of these monsters, so in regards to adjustments making it possible to land enfeebling magic easier, we feel it would be better for red mage’s to experience this effect on a larger amount of monsters.

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I'll take this in translation that monsters that are 'highly resistant' to status effects will become more susceptible to them in the future.

In reply, the developers stated that they were planning on creating more Debuffs for Red Mages to utilize. Understanding that the update premise is to create a more unique role for Red Mages during HNM and Battle content, can it be a safe assumption that these new debuffs will be more effective against these particular monsters than our current line of enfeebles are now in terms of resistance?

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Since enhancing magic is an area that red mages excel at, we would like to add something. We have been receiving a lot of ideas for enhancing magic and we will be keeping them in mind when exploring this subject.

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A common complaint about Red Mages is the taxing load of having to cast spells on each member of the party individually and repeatedly. Are there any plans to help further elevate the taxing experience that single target enhancing magic spells can create, in light of receiving more enhancing magic spells?

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We are planning to make this spell a red mage-specific spell, but are continuing to evaluate it.

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We look forward to hearing more about what the development team decides. Please keep us informed.

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We will be looking into both of these along with the weapon skills revamp.

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We looked into this, however, if we were to add this it wouldn’t be a job trait. The possibility is pretty high that it would be in the form of equipment that a red mage could wear.

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With this in mind, can we come to expect that the available high-performance melee enhancing equipment available to Red Mage will be increased as more gear becomes available. There has been quite a large amount of improvement for many jobs in this regard, however. Red Mage has been mostly regulated to wearing level 75 gear when it comes to wearing melee gear.

Also, there seems to be a very small amount of equipment that can enhance the damage of our Enspells, can we see the possibility of more gear, or even augmented gear, that would assist in this?


Again, thank you very much for the feedback and your time.

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Originally Posted by Raksha

I always figured that "stri" stood for "Scholar Tabula Rasa [something]". You sure its an enspell and not brave/merton?

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That acronym would certainly make sense, but...

Brave is listed separately from stri. In the video, stri has the spell effect on the raised hand area, like enspells. The one marked with Brave is a more general buff animation covering the whole character, along the lines of barspells. I don't see anything called Merton or that looks like it could be it, but the stri video certainly wouldn't fit a mega helix.

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Originally Posted by Merton9999

That acronym would certainly make sense, but...

Brave is listed separately from stri. In the video, stri has the spell effect on the raised hand area, like enspells. The one marked with Brave is a more general buff animation covering the whole character, along the lines of barspells. I don't see anything called Merton or that looks like it could be it, but the stri video certainly wouldn't fit a mega helix.

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Got a link to this video? The only one I found didn't have labels on any of the animations.