On Red Mage melee...

[Doombringer]

Disappointing to see my favorite class has degraded to this, though.

yah.. it's a fuckin shame dude.. i've been an rdm for like.. i don't even know at this point.. i got ffxi the day it was released for ps2 so, what, 7 years? 8?

i hate to be the party shitter i just figured i'd be honest with yah.

Will say though, I don't plan on class-switching regardless. I haven't been able to play often, but I started up my rdm about three years ago, and I'm not stopping now just because it's not easy to play.

if you insist on toughing it out, good luck. i'm with you in spirit.

i only suggest you level something else first because it will make rdm life SO much easier. a whm could show up to abyssea or voidwatch naked and still "get by" with the right atmas or temps. find a small aby group that needs a whm, and see if it's allright with them if you also take the rdm stuff. most people have multiple jobs nowadays anyway so this wouldn't be an outlandish or greedy thing to ask.

if your group really takes off you'll eventually start making an emp or 2 for each other. nobody will expect you to make your emp for your whm.. and almace is pretty damn cool.. makes rdm infinitely more fun.. but i only got mine because my aby group needed a war and i happened to also be one. sadly i've done very little aby on rdm.



and before anybody jumps down my throat, i understand there is a HUGE difference between a solid career whm and a cure mule, i recently burned whm myself and just having it skilled up and being payed attention to was like night and day compared to my friends whm mules. so i cannot fathom how much better it would be were my whm geared properly or if i knew what i was doing. but that fact of the matter remains people USE whm mules so it's got a low bar for "acceptable"