The Problem with Red Mage . . .

[ManaKing]

They do. Moon is basically crit hit+ and Brutal increase's chance for DA on first two hits. Str Sword is your best off hand for it unless your at capped attack.

RDM's DEX gear is ~blah~, it's not bad but it really does need more. RDM should of been on Toci's / Athos but Tanaka in his infinite wisdom things RDM is "a very powerful job" and put it the gear set that is completely useless to RDM. Not much we can do about it for now, once gear is released SE is incredibly resistant to changing it. Their releasing new Morrigans gear and that's what I'll be looking forward to. Though honestly, Mercy Stroke should be pretty good with some of the Dux+1 we can get. 3.0 fTP with two hits, 60% STR and 40% damage boost to go with it's extremely nice DPS and enspell effects.

Mandau would be an amazing offhand if you could get the +Attack off it as well. Double Relics would have made RDM pretty reasonable.

Well the gear we were put on isn't really useless to RDM either. Heka's is amazing for healing as RDM, Rubeus legs are good for low acc situations and the best WS piece for KoR & Req, Rubeus hands are better than our AF3 hands for Enfeebling if only by a little and only without Sabo. There are a few pieces we did get worth using, but overall its the fact that we didn't get any melee gear during what I would say was a gear goldenage for most jobs seeing as the gear gotten from it is so good it will be in use for a very, very, long time.

We have good gear if you don't want RDM to be a real DD. If you're diehard for RDMs utility to be damage, then SE didn't give you what you wanted.