Seeing Red - A Complete Red Mage Guide

[Rongway]

Are you sure that for 3 targets it's not better to keep doing the normal ST rotation, so you fill your mana faster, so you can do Enchanted Moulinet faster?

And what about a hybrid rotation for 3 targets? Scatter + verthunder, scatter+ veraero, repeat until enough mana for Enchanted Moulinet. (not using verfire/verstone until 2 targets or less)

What would be the math behind this? I would really like to know what the DEFINITE optimal rotation is for 3 targets ...

http://i.imgur.com/mM2GpAb.png



At 60.5s, hybrid targeting is the same as scatter with no procs. However, at that point, the hybrid RDM is ready with another Enchanted Moulinet while the unluckyAoE RDM is only at 9|9.

The unluckyST RDM is slightly behind the unluckyAoE RDM, but the loved by the Gods ST RDM is slightly ahead.

Best case scenario is the obnoxiously lucky AoE RDM, who is about 10% ahead of the lucky ST RDM.


I would recommend going with the hybrid targeting option, with Enhanced Scatter when possible, because this will probably work out better than single targetting. The upper bound for your p/s is 10% higher, and it only requires you to be lucky some of the time instead of every single time.

Note that

A) Scatter->Verslowspell->EnhancedScatter->Verslowspell is +22|+22
and
B) Scatter->EnhancedScatter->Scatter->EnhancedScatter is also +22|+22

but
C) Scatter->EnhancedScatter->Scatter(no proc)->Verslowspell is +25|+14

So I would recommend (A) because it's definitely +22|+22, whereas (B) is not guaranteed and can drop to (C).

[Semmi]

Just a note about races, with the removal of piety they have changed racial stats slightly. Theorycrafters have worked out a couple of the racial stat changes but not all of them. So those values should be subject to change.

[Shadowzanon]

a good read. gonna re read this a few times before early access.

[Spiroglyph]

Thank you so much for posting this!

[kaellok]

Thank you!

[Seferex]

From datamining (should be on reddit), it seems that rdm's kit will be the same at release.

[Maero]

Question now is are the potencies correct in the tooltips? Some players had already pointed out some translation errors.
Ah well we will see in a bit

[Sephorai]

Does anyone have any idea at what the opener will be?

[JnCrWe]

Excellent guide. I've seen and read a lot about RDM gameplay already, but the guide still made things clearer to me.

As a minor nitpick, the description of Manafication in this guide implies it increases black/white mana gain; whereas the italicized text below that, and the description on the official job guide, state that it doubles current levels.

[Rawrz]

Does anyone have any idea at what the opener will be?

VerAero
VerAero
Swiftcast
Fleche
Veraero if no stone proc verthunder if proc
Acceleration
Contresixte
Stone or fire proc if not jolt
Verthunder
Corps displacement lucid dreaming during free weave times
Verfire
Get both above 40, manafiction
Corps, Enchanted riposte, int pot enchanted zer, embolden enchanted redouble, flare holy

Is my rough guess. :] doesn't matter if you use thunder or aero to open.