The Problem with Red Mage . . .

[Afania]

I should have said it differently I suppose. Look at every set of gear, I mean Perle/Pink/Teal, AF3, Fazheluo/Mextli/Anhur, Mekira/Toci's/Heka's, Ogier/Athos/Rubeus, Phorcys/Thaumas/Nares. This is what I meant by our abundance of mage gear, on each of these sets we get the mage gear set, never any melee in any of it, not even our final JSE/Artifact Set. I myself find it somewhat weird that in the end SE gave BLU a good mix it seemed, their AF got some melee, and some mage, stats, they got Pink, and Teal as well. I don't recall if they got any more mage gear in the sets after that point, but I cant help but wonder why we cant be put on a good light DD set from an event to make up for the loss of AF3 which we got pure mage gear for. AF3 gear is great for haste in the places it gives on jobs, and those pieces are likely to stay competitive for a long time, where as RDM will never have access to that kind of resource because we never get the Light DD sets.

BLU doesn't get all the mage gears in this game though, some mage gear is still usable by RDM but not BLU. BLU also can't use magian staff but RDM can use both staff and sword.

[Demon6324236]

BLU doesn't get all the mage gears in this game though, some mage gear is still usable by RDM but not BLU. BLU also can't use magian staff but RDM can use both staff and sword.

Perle/Pink/Teal
AF3
Fazheluo/Mextli/Anhur
Mekira/Toci's/Heka's
Ogier/Athos/Rubeus
Phorcys/Thaumas/Nares

From the list, 2 things I know for sure they got, Pink & AF3. Even these 2 sets alone give BLU something.

Looking at Pink, a Double Attack body, which is actually not a bad TP body were RDM able to use it, its not Kudzu nor Shedir, but then again its only 5000 Cruor and beats out alot of bodies RDM has, I myself currently use Antares Harness for lack of something better, but I would use pink if given the option. The rest of Pink are decent Haste pieces, nothing big enough to be worth it once you are well geared, but something.

Looking at AF3+2.

"Accuracy+12 Sword skill +7 Haste+6%" this is great, better than anything RDM gets ahold of for TPing as a head piece, Accuracy, some Attack from skill, and a massive Haste boost, RDM will never get this in their AF.

"Accuracy+12 Haste+3%" A Haste body with some nice Acc at the same time, something we never really see as RDM.

These legs are not only good for CDC, they have 4% Haste, the most Haste that would be available for RDM were they given the exact same gear.

Now I'm not saying give RDM the exact same gear, and this may be argued as relatively pointless by some people, but myself I think of this gear as something they can use. RDM has no access to this, we have no good gear of the past to rely on when going into the future, so if we get bad gear, or only halfway decent gear, while everyone else is getting Thaumas 2.0 we will be easily left behind. So far we have very basic builds for TP it seems, our Haste gear is kinda dumbed down when you think about the fact any good RDM TP build seems to need either a Haste body with half mage stats on it, or a Zelus, to cap Haste. Were some of our AF3 given Haste, or we were given some of the other Light DD sets, this may not be the case. And I know BLU didn't get alot of mage sets, but thing about it, we didn't get any of the melee sets, so it is lopsided no matter how you look at it.

As I said, I take what we have had recently as a golden-age of gear, as most of this gear we have now will be very hard for SE to beat, look at Neo-Limbus/Odin for example, where to my knowledge most gear was ignored because it wasn't good enough for the effort. If I'm wrong, please correct me, but if thats the case, then we may have gotten all of the most important gear, and now RDM will have to scrap for the failed attempts to usurp that amazing gear, like Shedir. Not that those pieces of gear are bad, but when it comes down to it, which would you rather...

This...

or this?

And I think we all know the answer to that.