Seeing Red - A Complete Red Mage Guide

[Maero]

Susano weapons for blm and Red Mage have reversed stats, seriously.
Why the hell give spell speed to Red Mage, and Crit or whatever stat the blm weapon has.
Just like they had done to the caster gear in hw... sigh
Only thing going on for them is the higher weapon damage

@ Pyro, i am actually considering having 2 seperate sets of gear as crazy as it may sound but you are correct in that blm is about ss, Red Mage wants nothing to do with it, lol

[Draxxion]

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?

I have a similar issue with SMN and RDM. In the past, been trying to find relative stat weights for SMN too, SMN was Crit > DET > SS. DET and SS would flip spots based on how many Ruin 3's you could fit in a DWT depending on latency, etc. Now that I also RDM and with the addition of DH, I have no clue any more and find it more difficult to meld materia now let alone work out stats on gear between the two.

[Pyroclastic]

Another question:

"3) Embolden should be happening after Enchanted Riposte."

Why is it optimal to do Embolden after Enchanted Riposte? Doesn't Embolden only increase your magic dmg (and physical dmg of party)? So that would mean there's 2 GCD's wasted in the Embolden window, right? Or am I missing something?

[JMadFour]

Another question:

"3) Embolden should be happening after Enchanted Riposte."

Why is it optimal to do Embolden after Enchanted Riposte? Doesn't Embolden only increase your magic dmg (and physical dmg of party)? So that would mean there's 2 GCD's wasted in the Embolden window, right? Or am I missing something?

Enchanted melee attacks are unaspected magic damage.

[Pyroclastic]

Enchanted melee attacks are unaspected magic damage.

Aaaah, okay, thanks for this.

[Karnage720]

Enchanted melee attacks are unaspected magic damage.

So why not use embolden prior to Enchanted Riposte?

[Pidooma]

So why not use embolden prior to Enchanted Riposte?

This is because of the way Embolden has stacks. If you embolden at Enchanted Riposte then by the time you get to your VerFinisher you will have already lost a stack thus reducing the damage of your hardest hitting spell.

[PrismaticDaybreak]

So why not use embolden prior to Enchanted Riposte?

If I had to guess, to make sure Verflare/Verholy got the maximum benefit for Embolden as it's 550 potency instead of Ripostes 210, although if we do the math emboldening to hit the Riposte and the finisher equals out to 65 extra potency between the two attacks as opposed to 55 from the enhanced verflare/holy

[Rongway]

The maths are a little bit wonky because of the decay and how every other spell is instant. I'm having to go into the spreadsheet and manually promote or demote some of the bonuses based on the interplay between the decay and the Dualcast mechanic.

It gets even wonkier when we get into spellspeed-modified recast times, and some of the decays move into the middle of hardcast spells instead of just after instant spells.


Enchanted Riposte → Embolden will be between 5 and 11 potency higher than Embolden → Enchanted Riposte, depending on how late in the GCD you activate it.


(the 0.5 or 0.1 times for Embolden represent activating it earlier or later in the GCD)

[PrismaticDaybreak]

Just a small correction, the recast for redoublement is 2.2 seconds not 1.5