New Red Mage Spells

[Neisan_Quetz]

Bio will always, always, always, be useful for RDM Solo Kiting. There's very few fights where RDM solo Kite,But in those fights, Its invaluable.

For 2 Reasons

1) Strong DoT
2) Attack Down

Defense down from Dia does nothing for magical resistance, Making Bio's much stronger DoT effect, and bonus of attack down (You get hit for less) makes it the most effective spell for Solo kiting.

Again, Very few situations, But its not a dark age spell.

The problem with being useful for solo kiting is the usefulness of solo kiting itself, which is limited to level 75 content mobs it isn't necessary (and downright slow) or for Abyssea, which is same as aformentioned problem. As soon as merit spells were removed from VW I dropped Bio3 and never looked back (I somehow still ended up using rdm after that but I digress, could have been rep'd by a Sch).

[Lilia]

solo kiting with rdm- more or lesser good- but is now replaced from sch,
why?

kaustra!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! that one is a dot
tier5 nukes
-50% spellcost
-50% casttime
skillchain with 2 spells
rly when i need solo kite, nothing can beat sch

[Rooj]

Why kite, when you can straight tank?

[Daniel_Hatcher]

solo kiting with rdm- more or lesser good- but is now replaced from sch,
why?

kaustra!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! that one is a dot
tier5 nukes
-50% spellcost
-50% casttime
skillchain with 2 spells
rly when i need solo kite, nothing can beat sch

You're really basing the ability to DoT kite based on a 2-hour?

[Lilia]

With sch ... ya
2-3% hp dot high endgame nms is nice

sure you dont need use 2h, 5 quicknukes and chainspell nukes is enough for kite/nuke
rly why you want go with rdm when you have sch? sch can kill much faster, and with embrava and kaustra the nms turn in a joke

sure rdm kite/nuke is good, but with poison 10-20/tick and 4 nukes , you cant beat sch

found a good example on youtube solo sch kill kaggen >.<

for my rdm i wish poison3 and bio4 but i know SE .... rdm is the BEST SoLOOOOO JOB -lol

[Neisan_Quetz]

Well yeah even Blm is a better solo kiter than Rdm is for older mobs

[Daniel_Hatcher]

With sch ... ya
2-3% hp dot high endgame nms is nice

sure you dont need use 2h, 5 quicknukes and chainspell nukes is enough for kite/nuke
rly why you want go with rdm when you have sch? sch can kill much faster, and with embrava and kaustra the nms turn in a joke

sure rdm kite/nuke is good, but with poison 10-20/tick and 4 nukes , you cant beat sch

found a good example on youtube solo sch kill kaggen >.<

for my rdm i wish poison3 and bio4 but i know SE .... rdm is the BEST SoLOOOOO JOB -lol

I wouldn't kite full stop, I could kill quicker solo-RDM by straight up fighting them, but basing things on a 2-hour is absurd.

[Neisan_Quetz]

If you're not chaining solo fights, there really isn't a reason not to. Granted, If you are doing multiple solo fights you can argue for a faster solo job.

[ManaKing]

RDM/NIN is durable. I'm still a big fan of just fighting most things. But as far as magic, I would enjoy higher Tiers of Poison. I would be very happy if Bio III and Dia III stacked. It might be an actual reason to bring a RDM...honestly.

[Ophannus]

"Might" is in the .dats and has been since CoP came out. The only instance where the animation is used is when you're unlocking a Mythic WS, the Blue Mage casts it on you. It looks like you're getting hit with Thunder IV but red/blue colored lightning with a fiery effect after that resembles when you eat a meat dish food. Wish they'd implement this as a self-target "Attack Boost" spell that gives +5-20% Attack based on Enhancing Skill, would be nice for our melee for solo/lowmanning things as RDM/NIN with Almace.

Unfortunately I bet you all they're gonna implement it--as a spell for Rune Fencer. (Along with other spells in the .dats i.e Reflect, Faith, Wall)