Path of the Sword Choice [SAM or RDM]

The path of sword and shield of course, what other choice is there?

This thread makes me want to hold a sword in each hand, one in the mouth and one in the tail so I don't have to pick one.

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Originally Posted by Vorx

RDMs are both range and melee. They attack with the sword and use magic as extra attacks or "special attacks"

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No they're not. They're a ranged caster only.

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F: Will Red Mage’s auto attack be melee or ranged?
Y: It is a range job,

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Originally Posted by Zojha

This thread makes me want to hold a sword in each hand, one in the mouth and one in the tail so I don't have to pick one.

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So like Ravana? :)

I'll lv up and probably play both, but it's more likely that i'll "main" SAM.
I used to be meh about RDM, before they announced it, but since they showed it, it looks fun.

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Originally Posted by HiroKirito

Ah I see what you mean from the animation style, I think the thing I'm going to struggle with the most is the presumably slow gcd. But aesthetically it looks on point ^^

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it will have the same gcd as every other job...
i guess you mean the heavy hitting skills, having a charge-up time - not all skills will have that, or it would be like melee brd/mch.

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Originally Posted by Stitches1974

No they're not. They're a ranged caster only.

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F: Will Red Mage’s auto attack be melee or ranged?
Y: It is a range job,

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not only, you can see in job trailer, that it has melee skills as well, but most of its skills will be ranged.

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Originally Posted by Radacci

not only, you can see in job trailer, that it has melee skills as well, but most of its skills will be ranged.

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I think Yoshi would have stated that, if that was the case, but he clearly stated a ranged job. And in the RDM showing, it shows the RDM casting a spell which gives the animation of the light line hitting the mob, followed by the "melee attack". Looks like a spell animation to me. Also the RDM will be using caster gear, if it has any melee attacks, what will give them melee attack power?

I wanted to play SMN in the closed beta, or at launch, but the job was not available and the only caster in the game was BLM. I view SMN as my main caster job. I will unlock both the new jobs, the RDM because, finally another caster!, and SAM because it looks cool and I also love swords DPS classes in other games. But I will wait a few patches for the new jobs to get fixes because I'm sure they will be broken. I will level them up later.

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Originally Posted by Stitches1974

I think Yoshi would have stated that, if that was the case, but he clearly stated a ranged job. And in the RDM showing, it shows the RDM casting a spell which gives the animation of the light line hitting the mob, followed by the "melee attack". Looks like a spell animation to me. Also the RDM will be using caster gear, if it has any melee attacks, what will give them melee attack power?

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it's been stated that it uses high speed positioning to move between melee and ranged.
It has a rapier and crystal, that can be combined into a staff, or used as rapier, so you use both melee and ranged magic skills.
It will use int for both melee and magic skills, to simplify things, just like NIN uses dex for mudras, melee jobs using str for ranged skills, MNK using str for self heal, etc.

I'm looking forward to trying RDM and hopefully it will be fun to play. The design intention (spells + melee attacks + high speed positioning) is 100% what I'd want to main but I'll have to wait and see what kind of rotation and special abilities they've given the job. It's also a stylish job so that's a bonus.

SAM looks unique and stylish too but it's not what I'm looking for atm.