Lack of decent Red Mage Gear

Also if your going to be meleeing on RDM, then it's wise to invest into an max enhancing magic build. Here is what I use,

body "Glamor jupon"
neck "Enhancing torque"
legs "Portent pants"
hands "Duelist's gloves"
ear1 "Augmenting earring"
feet "Estoqueur's houseaux +2"
back "Estoqueur's cape"

This plus 8/8 Enhancing merits puts me @456 enhancing magic @95. That is a godly amount of enhancing as it gives me.

27 Enspell Damage
20 Gain-STAT
33 Phalanx (Phalanx scaling sucks past 300 enhancing magic)
12~13% DA on Temper (Thanks Seriha)

And stronger accuracy on things like Ice/Fire/Shock Spikes

Only pieces I'm missing are the Olympus Sash for +5 Enhancing magic and the Hyksos Robe for another +10 (+7 over current body).

Except for the part where people are trying to impose their opinions on the original poster, the replies have been pretty good thus far. Whether we think it's the way it should be or a design flaw, there just isn't much gear out there to really support someone taking a dedicated approach to redmage melee unless they go quite a ways out of their way and spend considerable gil.

@noodles355: What's wrong with thinking SE might actually fix both aspects at once? Unlikely, sure, they have kind of a bad record with these things, but it's not like they just can't.

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Also if your going to be meleeing on RDM, then it's wise to invest into an max enhancing magic build. Here is what I use,

body "Glamor jupon"
neck "Enhancing torque"
legs "Portent pants"
hands "Duelist's gloves"
ear1 "Augmenting earring"
feet "Estoqueur's houseaux +2"
back "Estoqueur's cape"

This plus 8/8 Enhancing merits puts me @456 enhancing magic @95. That is a godly amount of enhancing as it gives me.

27 Enspell Damage
20 Gain-STAT
33 Phalanx (Phalanx scaling sucks past 300 enhancing magic)
12~13% DA on Temper (Thanks Seriha)

And stronger accuracy on things like Ice/Fire/Shock Spikes

Only pieces I'm missing are the Olympus Sash for +5 Enhancing magic and the Hyksos Robe for another +10 (+7 over current body).

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I do the same. Can also augment Zenith Crown for some Enhancing Skill I believe. This will be awesome when we get Gain-INT as +20ish INT would rock for boosting our nukes a good amount and Gain-DEX should be sweet for CDC for those that have it.