Seeing Red - A Complete Red Mage Guide

[Renryuu]

If you all do not mind, I have a question I'd like to ask. I was just wondering, do we have any idea on what the secondary stat priority is for Rdm yet or at least a good guess to it or does it not matter what I meld onto my gear?

[LemonKing]

If you all do not mind, I have a question I'd like to ask. I was just wondering, do we have any idea on what the secondary stat priority is for Rdm yet or at least a good guess to it or does it not matter what I meld onto my gear?

Experience from other games is telling me we need to meld spell speed materia to a certain point then we need to dump any materia stats into dh (or det, depends on whats worth more with gear tiers).

e: Apparently I'm wrong about this, see the post on the next page.

[Garotte14]

If you all do not mind, I have a question I'd like to ask. I was just wondering, do we have any idea on what the secondary stat priority is for Rdm yet or at least a good guess to it or does it not matter what I meld onto my gear?

From everything I'm seeing with my damage numbers using different melds and food, I'm noticing DH > Det > Crit > SpS. Det usually scales really high at lower item levels. Them as the expansion goes on and our Int increases, Det loses its weight. That seems to be true so far in SB as well, but this is only in a vacuum. I don't have concrete formulas and math to confirm this.

[Renryuu]

From everything I'm seeing with my damage numbers using different melds and food, I'm noticing DH > Det > Crit > SpS. Det usually scales really high at lower item levels. Them as the expansion goes on and our Int increases, Det loses its weight. That seems to be true so far in SB as well, but this is only in a vacuum. I don't have concrete formulas and math to confirm this.

Thank you very much.

[Karnage720]

I've been looking all over the place but haven't been able to find it....where are the job related rdm quests? I wanted to reach 60 first so I skipped all of the previous ones and now that I'm trying to complete them, I can't seem to find where to start. Any tips would be greatly appreciated!

[Rongway]

where are the job related rdm quests?

The RDM NPC moves around a lot. Read the journal entry for the last RDM quest you did and it'll say where you left him.

/journal → (Complete) → [Class & Job Quests] → (> Disciple of Magic Job Quests)

[Garotte14]

Do you have answers for me, Garotte?

P.S.: Do you have a 4.0 guide for BLM? If yes, could you link it for me? I can't seem to find it anywhere

Sorry for late response. Running around with the little one today. As others have pointed out, yes on 3 targets it is better to do Scatter then Verthunder/Veraero. I actually forgot to update that in the guide. On 4 targets, just keep spamming scatter until 30/30.

I do have a BLM guide and I'm in the process of updating it now. That guide is a ton more work and so much has changed. Should have it done by the end of this week before Savage.

[jba252]

I feel like my dps went down with susano weapon. Any thoughts? Maybe its the loss of DH

[Garotte14]

I feel like my dps went down with susano weapon. Any thoughts? Maybe its the loss of DH

I mean, it's got a crap ton of SpS on it which is pretty worthless for RDM so, yeah that's a big loss in more important secondary stats.

[Pyroclastic]

Are there any tips for maining both blm and red mage, gear&meld wise? I've always only mained BLM. But now I want to main both BLM and RDM.. However their melds are pretty much the opposite of eachother. BLM wants ALL the SS, while red mage wants nothing to do with SS... How do people deal with this problem when maining 2 jobs that share the same gear, but with different melds?