The Problem with Red Mage . . .

[ManaKing]

Point being that Athos and Toci's aren't for RDM. We aren't setup for being good at Crit WS. They aren't going to put us on Athos because we can't spare the inventory. I used to carry around an Almace and an A. Harness. It was inventory -1 gear. You don't have to carry around a bunch of fail DEX gear that is going to clog your inventory because you only use it for WS. CDC is junk on RDM outside of Aby and it always will be.

RDM has all the WS gear they need to put out good WS numbers with Requiescat. Furthermore, we are the best at it. It's a multi-hit WS with a 100% MND modifier. If you're a RDM and you don't use Req already, you need to start. Req was specifically made for us by SE. No one else comes close to us on it because of what we can wear, which is absurd amounts of MND gear. It is 5 hits, with off hand means you have 6 and you can have 2 potential extra swings which are provided by Temper. That's an 8 hit WS waiting to happen, and it happens all the time for me. Wear a Soil Gorget and Belt and jam on as much MND gear as you can find and go to town. It's that simple.

If you still love your Almace, please play PLD or BLU if you want to be good with it. You will do much better with it than you will on RDM. SE has no interest in making an Almace RDM the best RDM can be. You use an Excalibur, just like in every other FF game.

If you prefer daggers, go for it. It's a different setup entirely.

And if you want to use CDC go for it too, but don't expect SE to support it, because they clearly don't. The best you're going to do is spend all of your expansion gear on WS pieces for RDM and waste more inventory space on WS. I get that CDC could be better than Req if we had the gear, but they clearly aren't giving it to us and they did give us a more than viable alternative that saves us a ton of inventory space.

TL;DR You get to hit things with Galaxies. It's a no-brainer.

[Demon6324236]

Point being that Athos and Toci's aren't for RDM. We aren't setup for being good at Crit WS. They aren't going to put us on Athos because we can't spare the inventory. I used to carry around an Almace and an A. Harness. It was inventory -1 gear. You don't have to carry around a bunch of fail DEX gear that is going to clog your inventory because you only use it for WS. CDC is junk on RDM outside of Aby and it always will be.

My problem isn't so much about CDC. My problem is more about what gear we get overall, simple TP gear we fall behind on. We have much worse gear for TPing than a BLU imo, Oce/Toci's are examples of that, I'm not saying just for CDC. Oce/Toci's is alot of multi-attack & Attack/Acc in a set together that also gives amazing haste. Twilight Belt is a belt with the 2nd most haste in the game for any job outside of MNK, however BLU was put on it, while RDM is left out, not to mention the Double Attack on it which helps as well.

RDM has all the WS gear they need to put out good WS numbers with Requiescat. Furthermore, we are the best at it. It's a multi-hit WS with a 100% MND modifier. If you're a RDM and you don't use Req already, you need to start. Req was specifically made for us by SE. No one else comes close to us on it because of what we can wear, which is absurd amounts of MND gear. It is 5 hits, with off hand means you have 6 and you can have 2 potential extra swings which are provided by Temper. That's an 8 hit WS waiting to happen, and it happens all the time for me. Wear a Soil Gorget and Belt and jam on as much MND gear as you can find and go to town. It's that simple.

Yes, req is good, however to use it I need TP, and I need Haste & Multi-hit gear to get it faster, not to mention Accuracy so I can actually hit the mobs, problem is that BLU gets good gear for this while my RDM is left out of the loop.

If you still love your Almace, please play PLD or BLU if you want to be good with it. You will do much better with it than you will on RDM. SE has no interest in making an Almace RDM the best RDM can be. You use an Excalibur, just like in every other FF game.

As it has been said before, in other FF games BLU is more of a cloth armor kind of job, and RDM is more on the heavier side between the 2 of them. This game turns that on its head and does it the other way most of the time so I have to say that past games have little relevance in this topic.

And if you want to use CDC go for it too, but don't expect SE to support it, because they clearly don't. The best you're going to do is spend all of your expansion gear on WS pieces for RDM and waste more inventory space on WS. I get that CDC could be better than Req if we had the gear, but they clearly aren't giving it to us and they did give us a more than viable alternative that saves us a ton of inventory space.

But what about the TP!?

Clear way to say it, BLU gets good haste pieces from its AF3+2, Head(6) Body(3) and Legs(4). RDM gets no haste in its AF3+2, alot of mage gear, but 0 Haste. Teal & Pink sets, BLU gets both, RDM gets Teal. Teal is all magic stats, with no melee stats at all, while Pink has haste, STP, Acc, Double Attack, and so on, it has melee stats. A BLU with just this basic gear can actually choose between magic stats and melee stats, RDM can not. This has nothing to do with Crit WSs, or with Almace, or with anything of that sort, it has to do with TPing and just gear in itself. Thaumas, a set with Haste on nearly every piece of it, Fast Cast on its hands, Multi-hits of every kind on its body, yet BLU is on it, while RDM gets the mage gear. Enif, Shedir, & Adhara gear, 3 of the 4 sets from Neo-Legion. The list goes on and on, I shouldn't have to keep saying it. The point I am trying to make is not that BLU has tons of gear for WS, its that it has a ton of gear for melee in general! It has alot for magic as well, but its melee gear is the thing that annoys me and that I want to have, rather than 1 hybrid getting lovely amazing melee gear while the other gets scraps.

TL;DR You get to hit things with Galaxies. It's a no-brainer.

In other words you missed what I am wanting and what my point was. I would like WS gear yes, but thats not the main thing I even want. RDM has alot of ways to get to capped haste, but alot of pieces have alot of worthless stats on them as well. Shedir body is good for melee but you cant help but notice the magic stats on it that could otherwise be Double Attack or STP and make it over all better, while bodies for BLU exist with those stats! You are right so far as WSs go, but so far as TP gear... no.