Seeing Red - A Complete Red Mage Guide

[JustMatt]

To clear up the melee phase of RDM. If you read the tooltip for our melee skills, they do unaspected damage. This means that our melee attacks do magic damage hence why they are affected by embolden. This is the same kind of damage that Jolt II does.

[Silverquick]

To clear up the melee phase of RDM. If you read the tooltip for our melee skills, they do unaspected damage. This means that our melee attacks do magic damage hence why they are affected by embolden. This is the same kind of damage that Jolt II does.

Well I think maybe that would need to be tested first,

I can't see why they would go into that much detail in the Embolden tooltip if ALL of the Red Mage's attacks do magical damage because then it would just be assumed, they wouldn't need to specify Magic Damage specifically.

Obviously we all know tooltips can be wrong. So who knows. You could be right too so it's definitely worth a look.

[spelley]

Well I think maybe that would need to be tested first,

I can't see why they would go into that much detail in the Embolden tooltip if ALL of the Red Mage's attacks do magical damage because then it would just be assumed, they wouldn't need to specify Magic Damage specifically.

Obviously we all know tooltips can be wrong. So who knows. You could be right too so it's definitely worth a look.

It's been tested using various means and confirmed that the melee combo, when Enchanted, is considered Magical for the purposes of Embolden. You can test just by using your combo on a dummy, getting their damage numbers then doing it again with Embolden. Repeat to satisfaction. A new development is that it appears Fleche & Contre are considered Piercing physical damage and are NOT affected by Embolden.

[Silverquick]

It's been tested using various means and confirmed that the melee combo, when Enchanted, is considered Magical for the purposes of Embolden.

Ahh key word... when enchanted.

Important to know.

[Rongway]

It's been tested using various means and confirmed that the melee combo, when Enchanted, is considered Magical for the purposes of Embolden. You can test just by using your combo on a dummy, getting their damage numbers then doing it again with Embolden. Repeat to satisfaction. A new development is that it appears Fleche & Contre are considered Piercing physical damage and are NOT affected by Embolden.

Ahh key word... when enchanted.

While the word "Enchanted" is suggestive, the actual functional difference is

Normal weaponskill: "Delivers an attack ...
Fleche/ContreSixte: "Delivers an attack ..."

Enchanted weaponskill: "Deals unaspected damage ..."