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.