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    Archwizard Drake
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    Red Mage Lv 100
    Quote Originally Posted by Nalien View Post
    A full elemental wheel to make Red Mages rotation a bit more robust would be nice, but given most seemed happy with Red Mages rotation seeing (essentially) no change with Shadowbringers, I imagine I'm in the minority with that.
    Quite the opposite actually. Many of us were disappointed at the relative lack of expansion to the job, particularly since two out of three new skills are to be avoided as often as possible and the third was a big contributor to our MP issues until literally tonight's patch. No more depth or complexity was added to the job outside of AoE.

    But, at the same time, RDM is still young. To change it up too much in the immediate next expansion would make the design seem manic. The devs chose to focus first on putting final refinements on the existing design before expanding it, which is a very practical approach if nothing else.

    Still, I'd like a job with full access to the elemental spells, that cycles through them in a wheel-correct manner, and Red Mage is the perfect candidate until Geomancer gets added...
    Yeeeeeah... Hate to break it to you but GEO NPCs are already in-game and they're basically super-CNJs. In fact there are rumors GEO was initially meant to branch off CNJ (like SCH and SMN off ACN) as another DPS alternative, before they decided SCH would be the last class advancement ever.

    I highly doubt we'll see GEOs as your elemental wheel casters -- the lore so far has been very big on their mastery of air and water magic, but nothing governed by Thaumaturgy, since they largely contact similar Elementals to the Twelveswood's Conjurers.
    To be honest I would doubt RDM being an elemental wheel caster even if we got all 6; maybe a trait here or there to buff incidental spell combos, but given our access to at least two elements is entirely RNG, doubtful.
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    Last edited by Archwizard; 07-30-2019 at 06:40 PM.