Red Mage looks Incomplete

[Felis]

SMN: Aetherflow, Energy Drain, Lucid Dream
BLM: Convert, Umbral Ice, Lucid Dream
RDM: Lucid Dream

Notice anything wrong?

BLM - full MP mage
SMN - full MP mage
RDM - MP+TP mage

[Vexander]

BLM - full MP mage
SMN - full MP mage
RDM - MP+TP mage

This feels like it would work -in theory- in a perfect setting, but if you're a RDM and you're in a party where people keep dying (including the healer), a handful of Verraise feels like it could shut down a Red Mage entirely.

[Edit]: I shouldn't say, 'entirely,' since the melee combos will work fine without Mana of either type. However, the effective DPS will be severely handicapped, with no way of restoring it without begging a BLM/SMN for a Mana Shift.

[Felis]

This feels like it would work -in theory- in a perfect setting, but if you're a RDM and you're in a party where people keep dying (including the healer), a handful of Verraise feels like it could shut down a Red Mage entirely.

1 Verraise on the healer and not more. If the healer die again, then let the wipe happen.

[Vexander]

1 Verraise on the healer and not more. If the healer die again, then let the wipe happen.

Hrmn... fine for a 4-man party, but with an 8-man and everything goes bad, well... I don't know. It just seems strange to include such an MP heavy and crucial skill for Red Mages without giving them the skills to sustain its proper use. I don't know about anyone else, but I've generally found when a group needs a raise once, they need it a lot more than once.

[Rongway]

This feels like it would work -in theory- in a perfect setting, but if you're a RDM and you're in a party where people keep dying (including the healer), a handful of Verraise feels like it could shut down a Red Mage entirely.

This isn't a problem with RDM. It's a problem with everyone else in the RDM's party.

[Claire_Pendragon]

This isn't a problem with RDM. It's a problem with everyone else in the RDM's party.

Well... you're not wrong haha.

But he just means that the system of not refreshing their own MP is built on their ability to multi raise in a short period of time.