Do I Want To Be A Red Mage?

[joannaluttrell]

BABY GROOT! HUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUGS

[Bigcat9715]

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Here try this Red mage sim out, if your still unsure if you want to pick the job up.

https://tylian.github.io/rdm/

It'll give you a pretty good idea of how Rdm is going to play like.

[The_Shang]

Here try this Red mage sim out, if your still unsure if you want to pick the job up.

https://tylian.github.io/rdm/

It'll give you a pretty good idea of how Rdm is going to play like.

A bit off-topic, but is there something simlilar for SAM to mess around with?

[Bigcat9715]

A bit off-topic, but is there something simlilar for SAM to mess around with?

Unfortunately not

[RhaegarFFXIFenrir]

RDM is a dps main. That's your role, plain and simple. RDM's cure is pretty decent, about on par with Cure 1 as opposed to SMN's useless physick. Just because it cures for a decent amount doesn't make it an off cure. The only reason I can see you doing this is if because: a. you're gonna die if you don't dualcast a vercure onto yourself (and you don't do any dps from the floor) or b. you're in 4 man content and healer d/cs or dies in order to prevent a wipe or continue progressing through dungeon at a slower pace. Keep in mind, always, whether you are on SMN or RDM, your main role is to DPS. Your combat raises or (in RDM's case) cures are emergency stopgaps only.

[Averax]

I vercan't verunderstand your veraccent.

[Zephanoa]

You want to be an RDM if you like to be a BLM with better mobility.

[LunaFaye]

I use physick on my smn, but only when I need that paly shield and the healer can't read the party buff list. I also do the raise for the healers. Other then that, I've never tried to "off heal" on my smn. Is that this years new trend, or am I missing something else here, again?

I will not heal or off heal on RDM, nor give someone mp. Not my fault that SE removed ballad, either the blm can do it, because of their mp management or healers/any other roll need to learn, how to manage their own mp. It will be fun to see people assuming that the RDM is going to be the third healer or even worse, 2.x/3.x brd in a party. Not going to happen lol.

[MomomiMomi]

Ballad's not really gone, they just moved it to role abilities.

[Ash_]

The only time a SMN as of right now, and an RDM in the future will ever need to use resurrection is if the healer is dead in 4-man content or 1 of the healers is dead in 8/24 man content and the other healer looks really, really stressed. And using virus + eye for an eye on the MT is 1000% more beneficial than physic.