The Red Mage Video Analysis and Theorycrafting thread.

[Khalithar]

The demo showed us a total of 7 skills (three casts, Lunge, Million Stab, gap opener, nuke at the end), which is 1/4 of the skills available to a job at lv60 (28 skills, 18 regular abilities and 10 quested abilities), so there's some room for stuff. That being said, something seems to proc when the RDM used Million Stab. I don't know if it's connected with the nuke at the end, but that was the only ability that procced anything out of what that RDM used. Which would mean nothing is proccing off combos (since no combos were shown).

Based on the video we saw, my current guess is that the endgame rdm rotation will open with some DoT/debuff spells (debuffs that may or may not increase the amount of damage taken from the rdm's melee attacks) at the very beginning of it's rotation at which point they use their gap closer and get in to use their melee attacks which ends with the leap back/escape move (I think their melee moves will apply some sort of magic damage taken debuff along with the resources built up by using their melee attacks), at which point they switch to casting their big spells as a "finisher" to their combo. Then they reapply their DoTs/debuffs and go back to melee range.