Red Mage - The Spell Weaver

Finished my concept and design for Red Mage yesterday.

I can't go into the specifics like I did in the write up as I am unable to put all of that here. So I will leave this link here for those that wish to read the full design.

I encourage you to read the full design, with abilities, actions, traits and imagery examples:

Keyah's Red Mage Concept Design


The Red Mage

RDM [DPS] (Because "Support" isn't a category)

• 4 low potency weaponskills to generate combos to aid their spells.
• Weapon enchantments to increase the damage done (Since Red Mage would scale from Intelligence).
• Weapon enchantment, Weaponskill rotations and DoT's
• Access to potent utility, enfeebling and enhancing magicks
• Cross-Class: Thaumaturge, Arcanist
• LB3: Phoenix Flame (low damage AoE + Resurrection)

More in the full article.

Hope you enjoy it. I would love to hear what you think.

I'll admit i didnt read everything exhaustively, but what I've noticed that buggers me a lot is the amount of dots it would have. You classed 5 skills that applies dots with a total potency of 210 potency/tick if all of them are applied. For references, SMN have a total of 4 applyable dots: Bio, bio2, miasma and miasma 2. These 4 dots have a total of 115 potency/tick, thats only IF you apply Miasma 2. Otherwise its 95 potency/tick. That's considering the fact that SMN is a job that heavily relies on DoTs for good DPS. And after reading, I see that you have an option to turn your enchantement into a DoT, and if i understood well, it takes the potency of the enchantement, which is 80 for most of the case. So 290 potency/tick. For Reference, its almost a Aeolien Edge from ninja, every single tick, while being able to do regular weapon skills. That would just completely break the balance. Also a lot of actions with 350 potency, which is roughly below a Dragoon Full Thrust, even tho their casting time is long (3.50 seconds). Also, you talk about a lot of elemental damage in your RDM concept, but it is no secret that elemental damage changes absolutely nothing in this game, even Foe's requiem was changed to reduce magic defenses instead of elemental resists. So it is a lot of pointless actions for nothing imo.

From what I saw of your RDM concept, it is very unbalanced, broken, with a lot of impractical/useless skills. Plus a lot of the skills RDM have would be most of the time useless against raid bosses, unless for some rare cases.

Unless I didn't understand something, let me know, was still enjoyable to read, but it isnt made for this game, which is very well balanced if I dare say.

The En- spells are redundant since there are no elemental resistances that matter in combat. Having multiple ability slots for various elemental enchantments would serve no purpose, unless I missed so.e other job mechanic that would make use of individual elements separately.

Maybe should've prefaced saying this is an idea and not a completely finished and balanced work. I'm merely helping paint a picture of what I think it could be like.

The numbers are very general and you'll noticed that a lot of them (enfeebling particularly) have the same numbers. They're VERY unbalanced and in many situations completely broken. No TP or MP costs either because it's a balancing thing.

Maybe I'll go back and balance aspects.

This RDM concept is trying to deliver a Spell-Weaver. Utilizing of weapon-skills, DoT's, enchantments and enfeebling magic.

Red Mage's utility with master tier enfeebling would allow greater control over enemy states as well as being able to deal damage and buff the party. Brings a fair bit, maybe more than a Bard does if you think about it.

I mention it in the document but I would love for a "Support" category, because then it's right at home.

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Originally Posted by Darkstride

The En- spells are redundant since there are no elemental resistances that matter in combat.

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The Enchantment spells are to provide INT scaling damage to your blade, such that you aren't reliant on weapon skill potency. It helps to bring justification to a spell-weaving system where you have reason to use both your sword and your magic. Elemental weaknesses are a thing, and if SE aren't going to use them appropriately, I will. If they aren't going to use them, remove them.

Red Mage's elemental sword hits would be exclusive damage from outwith. Applying En-Ice to the enemy won't make BLM's fire damage greater, otherwise there'd be no point for half of them. In a similar fashion to Ninja's Elemental wheel from FFXI, this is to provide an extra layer of potential damage (subtle, but enough) to keep RDM catching up with damage outwith DoT's while applying other utility throughout.

okay after reading this i have to say I agree that the idea as it is now is a bit clunky, but you have the groundwork for a nice idea. Now i wouldn't say you need a major overhaul but this does need a lot more work to become a balanced job in the games current meta.

The first thing I will say that I think you did an awesome job doing is crafting the abilities in a listed and stylized manor, I can't even do that yet since I don't have the right programs... yet. Though I would suggest making the RDM symbol their iconic hat over a sword with flames, seems more fitting.

Secondly, the main thing to provide balance to the job is to keep things simple. Though, Yoshi-P said that he feels the HW rotations for each job are hard, they are quite simple to understand and execute, the only flaws are usually player error do to lag, time constraints, or controller vs Keyboard. DPS's and Tanks usually have a set rotation, or a standard one, that is flexible when the moment hits. Right now I see no "standard" rotation or excess abilities to be used as OGCD moves. Wanting the RDM to be primarily a spellweaver is fine but you have to make the skills/spells used have a main purpose. Sadly En-spells and debilitation abilities serve no purpose in this game in its current form. And, while I understand your reason for adding the En-spells the scaling with Int is usually build into a job, just look at DRK, a decent portion of their skills are spells. Also having 6 spells/skills that are basically the same thing is rather pointless, condensing them into one "En-spell" or ability, sounds like a better idea.

As for the combos you tries to create, having a "unique" branch as you currently have it seems okay, but i would recommend creating it similar to the mudra system where each finishing move has its own additional effect; adding too many effects can become confusing, especially if they are tied to main weapon skills. Plus you need to create a reason for the RDM to switch between using Magic or Melee attacks, push either a little too far in one direction and people will just spam that one set of skills, especially if they can augment them in other ways. The best suggestion I can give it is creating a job mechanic that encourages player to swap between the two like BLM does with Astral Fire and Umbral Ice. having a stacking mechanic that boosts the current arts power then allows for the use of a certain skill of the other art would encourage swapping. Start with a melee stance which increases str by 10% per stack, and once you gain, maybe 3 stacks, lets say a combo finish creates a stack, you can use a massive spell only available when you have those stacks, similar to warrior. Then once you use this spell it places you in mage stance, and the process repeats, build stacks by casting spells, then may chain or not, then once you have 3 again you use another skill and it places you in melee stance again. (this is my idea but feel free to use it in yours as well)

Hopefully everything that has been said encourages you to create the best RDM you can make, happy job-crafting, XD

I tried more in the design, it was cluttered and didn't stand out.

I weep for the future if our Advanced Jobs stay as simple as they currently are.

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Originally Posted by Eloah

you have to make the skills/spells used have a main purpose.

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They do, weapon skills enhance spells if they are cast immediately after. Enchanting rotation, weakening enemy for more damage and longer DoTs.

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Originally Posted by Eloah

Sadly En-spells and debilitation abilities serve no purpose in this game in its current form.

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Look for what the game can be, not what it is.

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Originally Posted by Eloah

i would recommend creating it similar to the mudra system where each finishing move has its own additional effect

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Weapon skills already have unique effects.

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Originally Posted by Eloah

you need to create a reason for the RDM to switch between using Magic or Melee attacks

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Weapon skills enhance magic, magic enhances weapon skills.

I'm assuming you're trying to go with an XI approach just by looking at some of the skill names though, we can use that but some stuff you could really get creative with. Protect on this game already gives magic defence too. How would your Shell work with protect would they stack? Since Shell has an extra ability.

We know elemental resistance -can- be used on this game, due to lost city hard modes second boss, if you want XI why not copy XI's Ninja but with your en-spells? En-Fire can increase auto damage by let's say 80 potency for the duration, make it a stance. make it lower Ice resistance on the target. So Red Mage is swapping through their different En stances. You could even copy some of XIV's Ninja and make different debuffs based on your current en-spell. Just like how on XI lower ice resistance made it easier to paralyze.

Also didn't see Refresh if you were going with the XI approach, which would obviously just be like Ninja's goad on this but MP not TP. :)

Um...

As listed in my document:

Shell will stack.
Refresh is on the list.
The En-spells work exactly like XI's ninja rotation.

Oh, I'm not sure how I missed Refresh being on the list. Lack of sleep maybe!

Well thanks for clearing that stuff up, the only thing I'm wondering now then is, endgame (as it stands your RDM is a PvP monster)
I'm trying to not look at stuff like recast timers etc. But I didn't see anywhere about Blind / Paralyze doing anything but that. Most Raid boss are usually immune to a lot of that kind of thing, would you give your RDM a way around that or would they just have a lot of enfeebles that nobody will use in those instances? (i.e: DRGs pretty much never having to use feint)

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Originally Posted by Keyah

They do, weapon skills enhance spells if they are cast immediately after. Enchanting rotation, weakening enemy for more damage and longer DoTs.

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while the enhancements are alright, they appear too complex, e.g. you need effect A to activate effect B, but you need to have Effect C up to use A but in order for B to work it must be used under effect D. Not saying this is your system, but it appears to come across this way. Additionally, double duration and double potency wind up being the same thing, if that was what you had for the "enhancements"

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Originally Posted by Keyah

Look for what the game can be, not what it is.

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it's not about what the game can be, it's about what the developers said they wouldn't add because it would create a large imbalance. There is no true elemental aspects because that would create an imbalance. So having 6 en-spells while admirable could be reduced to one skill/ability and open up 5 new skills/abilities/spells to use. as for debilitation spells, they work fine for crowd control but not on bosses since most are immune. I would recommend making them AoEs, that would make them more useful. Adding more spike skills would be better than all of the en-spells.

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Originally Posted by Keyah

Weapon skills already have unique effects.

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Yes they have a unique effect but you have too many. Remember that during a battle hiccups happen and you may not remember where you left off, how you started a combo, etc. While creating new and useful effects is a good thing, they shouldn't become confusing over time, remember people still confuse the mudras at times.

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Originally Posted by Keyah

Weapon skills enhance magic, magic enhances weapon skills.

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if this is true, you need to showcase it somehow, right now it just looks like they are ordinary spells, and similar to Healers the higher tiers will replace the older ones. The system looks clunky and not newbie friendly. Maybe give us an example of a rotation, the optimal one that players would probably find and use without end. if there is anything left over you may need to either rethink that skill or trim the fat entirely.

Also several of your spells are kinda odd if you pay attention to them.

Shell is not needed, it was added to Protect with a Conjurer trait in ARR, and made a default part of Protect with HW. Having the spell could be good but it can't be its usual iteration, since that serves no purpose in XIV.
Bar Astral & Bar Umbral, these spells could be good, but I don't know what they do, they just say they diminish astral/umbral detrimental effects, but what are these, you don't explain that.
Aquaveil, is it a permanent buff like Wanderer's Paean or Gauss Barrel to add additional damage, or is it a times buff like Enochian?
Gravity would need a name change, since AST already has the spell, maybe Demi instead. Additionally, spells, all spells, do not have "high" or "low" recasts they have high or low cast times so you might want to rethink some of your spells and their cast timers. the GCD is 2.5s and can be reduced with spell or skill speed.
Phalanx II being a spell with that high of a recast just makes no sense, if the recast is that high I'd make it an ability.

I hope none of this comes across as "mean" I am trying to help you flesh out your idea, but as of right now, and others have said it too, it appears a bit clunky and pulls too much from the XI RDM idea, which is fine, but XI played completely different and what worked there might not work in XIV.

Best of luck.

As i have read through some things, i would say, why not try something like gathering stacks of different elements, depending on the en-spell used. Then depending on the count you have spells gain some special abilities.
And concerning different elemental usage there could be a elemental rotation like (earth >fire) (fire>air) (air>earth) or something. That was just thought out in a few minutes, so dont nail me on it, but the essence what i mean is
-put some elemental debuff on the target
-switch to the stronger element by using some kind of other skill that cycles through your elements, might as well be a weapon skill
-gather by using this elemental wheel rotation different elemental stacks
-spend them for better utility or nukes, or what ever.
Every job has a theme somewhere and maybe this inspires you to other thoughts.
But i like the idea of a spell weaving sword fighter, so thumbs up ;)

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Originally Posted by Xaikara

(as it stands your RDM is a PvP monster)
I'm trying to not look at stuff like recast timers etc. But I didn't see anywhere about Blind / Paralyze doing anything but that. Most Raid boss are usually immune to a lot of that kind of thing

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I only slightly thought about PvP for durations, some effects would be omitted and some abilities I believe don't go into PvP. (I don't PvP, so I'm unsure)

Hopefully take a closer look at that and invest some time into PvP.

There's also the fact that Jobs get PvP unique abilities, which will need attention.

I like the thought of a Red Mage bypassing the diminishing returns, especially since they're enfeebling masters. There would still be some things that certain bosses are immune to, and in PvP as I said, tweaks will take place.

If it can be applied, it should be something to think about in a raid scene.

It's a very good point to raise though and I appreciate the concern.
Thanks for the thoughts.

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Originally Posted by Eloah

Adding more spike skills would be better than all of the en-spells.

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So why are you okay with different spike effects, but not a damaging rotation?
The "elemental weakness" aspect of the enchantment is purely for the en-spells.
It doesn't make other spells stronger.

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Originally Posted by Eloah

The system looks clunky and not newbie friendly.

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It's an advanced job, it's not supposed to be.

Shell stacks with protect providing more Magical protection, no Physical protection and enfeeble protection.
Bar Astral/Umbral are states (e.g. PLD Oath's) that act as an aura after 42 to protect against weaknesses
Aquaveil is a binary stance. Speed/Success
Gravity/Break have high cooldown because they deal AoE damage and hard CC. WAY too powerful to cast constantly.
Phalanx II is when you learn to cast it outwards to your party.

Quickly wrote this up for example of rotations:

Enchantment Rotation
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Pre-fight:
En-Stone

Fight:
Red Lotus Blade > Seraph Blade > Stralight Strike (Applies current "en" to target)
Seraph Blade > Red Lotus Blade > En-Blizzard (No cast time)

(Repeat as En-spell is about wear off with next in chain.)

Change 'Moonlight Strike':
RLC > Moonlight Strike = Increased En effect duration on target
SBC > Moonlight Strike = Increased current enchantment duration


Spell-weaving rotation
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Red Lotus > Seraph Blade > DoT/Enfeeble (Increased duration)
Seraph Blade > Red Lotus Blade > Starlight Strike (Applying En-spell as DoT)
Seraph Blade > Red Lotus Blade > En-Spell/Spell (No cast time)

If an enfeebling spell works on the target as a RDM and it's important, you should be using them and not waiting to try interrupt.

e.g. This boss needs to stay silenced. RDM will keep it Silenced.

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Originally Posted by Solaiel

why not try something like gathering stacks of different elements, depending on the en-spell used. Then depending on the count you have spells gain some special abilities.

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This sounds nice. It reminds me of Grandia with element mixing.
Different effects caused by elemental combos sounds awesome.

The worry I have is that this would be for an Elementalist. I don't know if we'd ever see one though E.g. We'll never see a Ranger because of Bard. ' ^'

It could even be that certain spells / enfeebles are caused by the element mixing, rather than having the spells themselves.

e.g. Wind (2) + Thunder (1) + "Mix" = Gravity(Demi)

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Originally Posted by Solaiel

Every job has a theme somewhere and maybe this inspires you to other thoughts.
But i like the idea of a spell weaving sword fighter, so thumbs up ;)

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Thank you, I'm glad some people like the idea of a spell-weaving sword/caster.

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Originally Posted by Keyah

So why are you okay with different spike effects, but not a damaging rotation?
The "elemental weakness" aspect of the enchantment is purely for the en-spells.
It doesn't make other spells stronger.

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based on your description the spike spell you have listed, which is only the thunder element, appears to be a "buff" to a party member that adds a barrier around them that deals damage as a counter attack, similar to E4E or Vengence. more abilities like that are desirable, but adding too many could be redundant as well, so be careful.

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Originally Posted by Keyah

It's an advanced job, it's not supposed to be.

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An advanced job does not have to be complicated. Also, two things stand out to me now based on this statement and the statement you said in response to Xaikara PvP comments, "enfeebling masters". I cannot debate this, since I didn't play XI, and I defend the current Summoner iteration from those who claim "it's not a 'real' Summoner". But the primary aspect of a RDM is being a sturdy mage with access to both WHM and BLM spells, able to deal decent melee damage, and the main aspect, the ability to Dualcast. I'd say let these be the defining characteristics. You can still make them enfeeblers, but try not to place them on the same plain as XI's RDM.

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Originally Posted by Keyah

Shell stacks with protect providing more Magical protection, no Physical protection and enfeeble protection.
Bar Astral/Umbral are states (e.g. PLD Oath's) that act as an aura after 42 to protect against weaknesses
Aquaveil is a binary stance. Speed/Success
Gravity/Break have high cooldown because they deal AoE damage and hard CC. WAY too powerful to cast constantly.
Phalanx II is when you learn to cast it outwards to your party.

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If Shell is supposed to be additional magical protection then it should not be similar to Protect in from, it would work better as Stoneskin, or Manaward/Manawall (I forget which is magical at the moment)
if Bar Astral/Umbral are statuses, which is fine, what do they protect you from you still do not list that. Does Astral increase you physical defense and Umbral magical? Also if they are statuses, like SWD/SHD Oath shouldn't they be abilities?
With Aquaveil, I'm confused what you mean by "Binary Stance"
With Phalanx II, no skill/spell is like that, it's just an updated version of the previous. Why not just make both a spell then Phalanx is single target and Phalanx II is an AoE, with maybe a shorter duration but higher defense?

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Originally Posted by Keyah

Thank you, I'm glad some people like the idea of a spell-weaving sword/caster.

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remember that in some games RDM is either "upgraded" or given skills similar to Mystic/Rune Knight. Adding in a few of their usual/unique skills might help balance things out.

I don't really care for your tone and constant nitpicking. This is the last I will be replying to you.

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Originally Posted by Eloah

based on your description the spike spell you have listed, which is only the thunder element

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There is no element, it's a description...

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Originally Posted by Eloah

An advanced job does not have to be complicated.

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It also doesn't have to be easy. High skill ceilings deserve a place as well.

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Originally Posted by Eloah

"enfeebling masters". I cannot debate this, since I didn't play XI.

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You can't debate it and yet you then go on to do just that. Red Mages can use white magic but they are not associated with white mages. White magic doesn't mean the spells a white mage uses necessarily.

I find everything else you said very mocking and you don't seem to understand the design. I've had to dumb it down several times for you, and with this lack of understanding you still write absurdly long posts telling me what's wrong with my design.

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Originally Posted by Keyah

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That's fine, you don't want my constructive criticism, then i will take the high road and leave you be. Good luck with your design.

There is nothing constructive about your criticism. This would imply that you are offering suggestions, where you are actually just simply calling aspects out and belittling the design.

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Originally Posted by Keyah

There is nothing constructive about your criticism. This would imply that you are offering suggestions, where you are actually just simply calling aspects out and belittling the design.

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Okay, I can understand you feeling "hurt" by what I have said, but I will say that I have not, nor will I ever, belittle yours or anyone else's job designs. It is not my place to tell you your design is good or bad, just to share with you my thoughts on it. What would you I rather have done, glance over it and write back. "oh this is the best design ever" or "This is the worst design I have ever seen". At least I looked the design over and shared with you my thoughts on what you created. I have offered you my thoughts on the concept you have created, and while you are entitled to not like them, I have not belittled you or your work, I have merely offered suggestions, yes I did offer them, on some changes you may want to make to your design. Now I will leave you to get back to working on it.

Well criticism is always difficult, isn't it ? (giving and taking alike)
That aside, i think status defects is a thing in this game. What sometimes is nice makes problems if used too often.
As you stun , or silence enemies with certain stuff ,the effective time is going to get smaller until immunity for a short time.
It is a nice idea to have more control in certain situations, but i am thinking if the current damage meta will be fitting to the design.
Don't get me wrong, support due to status defects is a nice thing, but the main place for it will really be pvp because many bosses are immune to anything like stuns , silence and stuff.
The goal would be to balance them to not be way too overpowered and at the same time not to weak in any spot of the game.
There could be ways like rdm based debuffs that dont suffer from applying them too often to a target, but that would be way too strong i guess. But i think you get the idea what i mean.
Damage wise you cant say okay this skill has too low potency or too much. It always depends on what can come together if used correctly.
And i guess the main idea is to have your enchantment most of the time on your blade, and if it expires or you use it up for some effect, you want to reapply it as fast as possible.
because your physical attacks you want to use are gaining most of their power because of the enchantment. (if i get everything correctly summed up)
And while it should be some melee type of support (bard) it should still have a little bit more of defensive stuff for itself , as well as slightly more damage, because it has to stick at the back of the boss and make a world of hurt.
Correct me if i am wrong, but in my opinion ranges have higher means to evade aoe attacks than melees.
And while the feeling how this class should feel is clear, balancing needs to start somewhere. And i would start by defining the exact means of where the damage comes from ,because thats the current meta of the game and the jobs main role. Then create the rest around it. But of course the exact mechanics have to be set in their basis, so you have to decide if, for example you would like to include gathering stacks of different elements into that class, or if you really care about another class having this system that is not even clear if it would come at any time. And still i think at least, even if this system is used already for some time, but you can still use it slightly different fitted to what the class wants to do.
For example warrior already gathers stacks, or summoner gathers stacks like eatherflow. What i want to say is, it is regardless what another class does, if you have the idea what a class could be then make it like you imagine, in the end it plays out different for each class, depending on the whole set. So choose what you think is right :)

Well, interesting enough, after the current patch i am definitely convinced, that there will be some spellblade / red mage class. But now i really wonder if that was the actual way of drawing the sword, or if it was just to be fancy.
The LB3 seemed to be that aether slash that seemed like some long cleave attack. A cleave like lb would at least be a new kind of damage range in terms of lb. Now i wonder about the mechanics of that class.
Because the person there did only use gladiator /default battle animations and the aether slash kind of thing. so my opinion of this is the moveset ist just default and will be replaced later, and the slash could be lb3 but can also be some story only thing.
So do you also believe that this could be our potential rdm ?

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So do you also believe that this could be our potential rdm ?

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Yes, I finished 3.4 MSQ earlier and thought the same. It's 2 weeks prior to Fan Fest Las Vegas and there are many subtle easter eggs that definitely suggest that

Alisaie is a Red Mage.

Details:

From her mention of being studied in every magic school, being a lone traveler and wielding an Aethrial blade; right up to the hints of red on her hair tie and garbs, and the Rapier-like design on the front of her clothes. Even her words "It's official then, gods, I hope I don't regret it", would also seem to be Yoshi P speaking through her.

Exciting stuff!~

I think there are some great ideas in this and I really like the concept artwork provided (though personally I feel like some pants could be useful instead of just a subligar :P)
There are a lot of cool sounding debuffs that would be very useful for supporting the party (Blind, Frazzle, Phalanx) and would give Red Mages a pretty distinct role within a party.


However I think there are some debuff abilities that should be moved to the 'PvP abilities' category (where abilities such as Manasong, Sacred Prism, Between the Eyes, etc are found). The reason for this is that abilities such as Dispel, Paralyze and Slow do not and can not have an effect of most enemies where they would be useful for balance reasons (why bring a Bard/Machinist if you can bring someone that can keep the enemy under the effect of Slow indefinitely).

I understand that this is very boring and causes tedious constraints when designing jobs, but unfortunately it's the design the developers have opted for and I see no indication that it'll change anytime soon.

In regards to the En-spells, due to there being no elemental wheel within the game I feel like they would end up being more of a flavour thing. I do see that you've worked them into the job in such a way that they're still worth using and I like the concept, but I feel like many would end up complaining 'Why do we have all these abilities that just enchant our weapon?'. I would suggest that instead of Starlight Strike applying an elemental weakness, a standard Magic Vulnerability Up debuff whilst under the effect of a certain ability would make the job more streamlined and allow for more debuff and/or direct damage abilities. The debuff would also apply to abilities coming from other party members, so this would add another layer of support-debuffing.

It's also worth considering that the Red Mage's weapon will be distinct to them, and so even though it will be a melee weapon I don't think it'd too difficult to have all physical and magical damage abilities scale from intelligence (similar to how all Ninja abilities scale from dexterity, despite having both a melee weapon and magic damage abilities via Ninjutsu).

They could perhaps even have healing abilities to further solidify their role as a 'jack-of-all-trades' support. (abilities in the same vein as Bard's The Warden's Paean or Summoner's Resurrection).

These are just my personal suggestions and are in no means criticisms of your work, I think you've done a great job in designing Red Mage in a way that encapsulates the feel of the job whilst still being able to work very well within the context of FFXIV :)

Well said.

I personally look at my design now and really think it'll be different (not TOO dissimilar though).
Especially with 3.4 MSQ, I feel that it'll play differently and were it not for the efforts I went to for this project, I'd try another one.

New thoughts and designs are rushing about in my head at present. I'm giddy and excited with what I believe we have seen is the Red Mage.

As such, I'm probably abandoning most of the design principles regarding the elements.

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Originally Posted by Keyah

New thoughts and designs are rushing about in my head at present. I'm giddy and excited with what I believe we have seen is the Red Mage.

As such, I'm probably abandoning most of the design principles regarding the elements.

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I agree, as someone who loves Red Mages I'm very excited about it too :D

If you're planning to edit it I think it'd be a cool idea to keep in mind the concept of channelling aether, which was pivotal to the fight we see the Red Mage in. I think this could be a further hint about what to expect from the job, but putting the idea into a solid playstyle isn't something I've ever been good at :P

My current thoughts seem to be settled in:

Red Mage will be a branch off Arcanist and different swords will be summoned with different properties.
It'll be much more melee focused than previous thoughts, but I would like to see some spell weaving ' w'