Seeing Red - A Complete Red Mage Guide

[Silverquick]

I'm starting to get more used to play RDM now but yeah DMG can be insane when you comfortable with the skills and "rotation". I was having so fun in the L63 dungeon last night and was pulling hate so much from the Paladin

Yeah its seriously insane DPS.

I don't even have Jolt 2 yet (60th level here), but just Jolt 1 + VerAero/VerThunder is a 480 potency attack. Then when you have VerStone or VerFire pop and replace it with Jolt on your next cast its 570 potency dual casted damage.

Not even bringing up the major DPS from the melee combo, or the other OCDs. Just the base output is incredible.

At first I thought there was no way the AoE could compete, but we're literally doing 400 potency in AoEs every 5 seconds by spamming Scatter.

While I'm still not sure how this will shake out vs BLM in single target, it's going to be awful close. Leaving SMN at the bottom of the pile in both Single Target and AoE. They never should have nerfed SMN.

That said... RDM is also more free form, so it will be hard to ever form a set rotation for it, meaning it will be hard to just teach this one or have a set pattern to do things in.

I am seriously considering switching to this as a Main at this point.