I love these red mage ideas, I just want the job in the game regardless of what role it will play though. Healer or DPS would be my preferred

Quote Originally Posted by Gemina View Post
When I was playing XI, RDM had enough of it's own natural skill to survive a great deal. The Maat fight to raise the old level cap from 70-75 is a great testament to this. Your SJ is disabled for this fight, plus Maat fights dirty. It was known as one of the hardest level cap instances in the game, and I knew several RDMs who hung it up because they couldn't clear it.
It was THE hardest Maat fight. I started FFXI fairly late (when WotG was coming out), and I ended up dropping Red Mage for Dancer when I learned of the Maat fight (and some other reasons, like being a relegated to haste/refresh ONLY bot). Some parties wouldn't accept you if you didn't just heal/haste/refresh and would get mad if you did anything else (wouldn't let me skill up elemental...). Dancer was far less stressful lol.