On Red Mage melee...

[Doombringer]

i am all about the kudzu aketon <.<

also, this exists: http://www.ffxiah.com/item/10352/ghadhab-nails might be nice.

but i heard a nasty rumor that the new haste belt uses sonic belt as an ingredient. i mean it's so outlandish that it almost HAS to be a lie, right?......right?

as for the new sword i'm on the fence.. i mean i want it.. just cuz it's a sword and i like swords.. but i dunno when i'd ever use it? i have a magian cure staff if i need the potency THAT badly, and a simple str path magian shikargar is a better offhand for almace.. it lines up well enough with death blossom or requiscat, but with that new dagger... the only reason you'd use those is if you had an excalibur?

i dunno.. maybe as a "good enough" offhander while still squeezing out some cure potency. sure beat the hell out of galenus i give it that.

[Duelle]

as for the new sword i'm on the fence.. i mean i want it.. just cuz it's a sword and i like swords.. but i dunno when i'd ever use it? i have a magian cure staff if i need the potency THAT badly, and a simple str path magian shikargar is a better offhand for almace.. it lines up well enough with death blossom or requiscat, but with that new dagger... the only reason you'd use those is if you had an excalibur?

i dunno.. maybe as a "good enough" offhander while still squeezing out some cure potency. sure beat the hell out of galenus i give it that.

Eh, considering I have staff allergy, that sword does look nice to have for cures. The MND doesn't hurt if you use/prefer Req.

[Doombringer]

i guess in combination with the new head +10/11% and new boots +1/4% that sword would let you get to 50% cure potency cap without a staff.. (but with an ideal set you may not even need the sword... YAY!!!) so it's definitely not BAD... but when a shikargar is gonna outdmg it it's a tough sell to me.

still though.. judging by the icon it's gonna be badass looking so i'd keep it even if just for town gear.

[Doombringer]

oh, and if you like daggers, there's an entire set with agi and att +

at first i thought it was more of that junk se throws in so crafters have something to lvl off, but at least SOME of it is solid exenterator gear i'm sure.

[ManaKing]

The new sword is amazing for what RDM can be used for...which is dual wields with full cure potency. Is there better off hands? Sure. For Damage. But I would gladly take that sword over most things, just because if I show up to an event I can fight and cure with it. If that's not melee enough for some people, well then you completely ignored that we can cure exceptionally well again.

Does this feel like Pink Magery? Somewhat, but honestly if you don't like using all of your job, there are more specialized jobs out there. At least it has a ton of good stats in one piece. If anything, I noticed that RDM got a lot more gear flexibility with this patch because they gave us access to more robust gear. You can cap haste a ton of different ways, which makes me feel like RDM is getting some decent attention.

ALSO it's gorgeous.

[tyrantsyn]

The sword is actually quite idea if your on front line/duo/small group and your tossing out heal's on the fly. It's actual quite tailor for a front lining RDM or PLD for that fact. Yeah there's better damage option out there. But that's a great fact of FFXI. There's lot's of option for all types of build's.

[Duelle]

Does this feel like Pink Magery? Somewhat, but honestly if you don't like using all of your job, there are more specialized jobs out there.

You're confusing willful pink magery with front-lining melee mage. Tossing a cure in emergencies is one thing, and something I have no qualms with doing. It's another to try to encourage bringing RDM to heal. Helping out the real healers is very different from carrying out their responsibilities.

[Daniel_Hatcher]

i am all about the kudzu aketon <.<

also, this exists: http://www.ffxiah.com/item/10352/ghadhab-nails might be nice.

but i heard a nasty rumor that the new haste belt uses sonic belt as an ingredient. i mean it's so outlandish that it almost HAS to be a lie, right?......right?

as for the new sword i'm on the fence.. i mean i want it.. just cuz it's a sword and i like swords.. but i dunno when i'd ever use it? i have a magian cure staff if i need the potency THAT badly, and a simple str path magian shikargar is a better offhand for almace.. it lines up well enough with death blossom or requiscat, but with that new dagger... the only reason you'd use those is if you had an excalibur?

i dunno.. maybe as a "good enough" offhander while still squeezing out some cure potency. sure beat the hell out of galenus i give it that.

One of the other pieces require the Strider Boots so most likely does require it.

[saevel]

The new sword is good for when you need to do more supporting. Your sacrificing some damage for enhanced cures, and with the recent cure update your talking 700+ Cure IV's now. It's a perfect Req sword which is why you'd use it with the STR sword or off hand it with Almace. Deal damage while sprinkling cures around the group.

[Demon6324236]

Also we see new haste bodys which is nice seeing as there are so few for RDM, though I have to say the sword is amazing too, with dual wield you can use this new sword with Tefnut & the body from Akavn to hit 43% potency which to me is very impressive. While clubs may not be a great thing to RDM if your willing to give into it for a bit Tefnut would do you well, if not now we have two cure swords to dual wield so we can DD & cure like the badasses we are seeing as Galenus with this sword is still 23% total, 38% with the body I mentioned, that head piece with Praeco Slacks and you have yourself capped cure potency easy while still giving us swords to use to melee and low cast times.