The Problem with Red Mage . . .

[Demon6324236]

I like my Excalibur as well. I was not saying anything against that so I hope you didn't take it that way, I simply wished to correct that info because it was likely lowering your damage quite a bit seeing as you were probably losing more than 50% of your chances for the additional effect to proc.

In either case I agree enspells should be fixed, they should be the lowest priority of additional effects, or what they really should do is allow enspells to stack with other additional effects overall. The fact enspells & other effects do not stack is another reason why /DNC falls far behind /NIN, seeing as you have to lower DPS by giving up Excalibur procs or Enspells, so you can get samba effects. Also it lowers the power of Excalibur over all thanks to the enspells being given up.

[Demon6324236]

New gear is good, some of it is even great like Vara Brigandine, however I would like to point out that some past gear is still better for other jobs such as BLU. The new DEX head for instance is really nice, but at the same time it seems to just be a Oce-1

Bendis's Hairpin
Head
HP-50 DEX+10 AGI+10 Evasion+8
Haste+6%
Lv99 All Jobs

Ocelo. Headpiece
Head
DEF:31 DEX+12 AGI+12 Haste+6%
Adds "Regen" effect Set: "Triple Attack"+3%
LV 95 MNK THF BST RNG NIN BLU COR PUP DNC

In terms of use at least. So to give my opinion on the gear. I love that we are getting more great gear, it shows the same way as it did when we got Bregos, which is great gear as well, however for many jobs the gear from VW & AF3 are still top tier gear, and since we were left out of it, I think that is going to hurt us for a very long time, until something comes along that is better than those, and RDM is allowed to use.

[saevel]

Access to gear is the primary reason RDM lags behind so much, the second reason is no access to DWIII and Bergressor at the same time. RDM's can make up for part of that via Composure + Temper + Gain-Stat + Enspell 1 (all assuming 500 enhancing) + Dia III but your still lagging.

[Sarick]

GIVE ME (with chainspell) DEMI OR GIVE ME DEATH!

Retired RDM, it sucks that bad, really.

[ManaKing]

Inventory space is still a big issue on RDM

[Demon6324236]

Agreed, running around on my RDM I often have as little as 10 spaces to use for anything, which is highly limiting and makes it hard to do much on it because even if you can do something, you don't have the room to hold the spoils.

[Neisan_Quetz]

Inventory is an issue for many jobs, I rarely have more space than that unless I'm on war and don't need to proc multiple weaponskills

SE needs to look into it or doing what they did with HQ staves and consolidating redundant gear into one piece

[Lilia]

i say that a 2 time, rdm have not so much equip like blu or other melee, but have enough good items.
enspell 2 sux not enspell 1(ok not with relic) but the bonus is ok for all hits, and rdm hits quick and good DA

i stop that, think what you want think,

[Plasticleg]

"off topic" making this whole detour (mostly me, you and saev) troll-arific.

reading comprehension :/

[Tamarsamar]

I liked the part where the thread got genuinely on-topic for a moment, when discussing gear deficiency as one of the flaws Red Mage has.

I would like to point out that earlier ManaKing made a quip about not using CDC for not having access to Athos's set, and take this chance to reiterate WHY?