Seeing Red - A Complete Red Mage Guide

[Silverquick]

Well my combos generally look like this...

These can vary so obviously we go with the flow of the fight but in a general sense...
Trash mobs:
Contre Sixte
Scatter until Guage is close to full (possibly Manification if theres time for it to refresh before the next boss mob)
3 quick Enchanted Moulinets (Basically a quick 600 potency in Cone AoE, they are 3 quick attacks)
Scatters again

Opener Boss Mobs:
Generally my guage is full by this point or mostly full, so I open with the Corps>Enbolden>full string of melee through Flare/Holy>Displace back out with a Fleche ender.

But if I have to build the guage from scratch its...
Fleche
Accelerate
Jolt II
Aero/Thunder depending on which is lower
Trading Jolt for VerFire/VerStone when its available (Secondary is Impact when up)
Manafication At about half if its available
Corps a Corps
Embolden
Enchanted Riposte
Enchanted Zwerch
Enchanted Redoublement
Flare/Holy depending on circumstance
(Might throw in Contra Sixte just for kicks if I know there will be no major adds, just for Damage)

Originally I started with Spell Speed, but it doesn't drop the recast very far... so I've concentrated on Crit and Direct Hit with Det being the third.

Generally in my parces with the 1300 Direct hit, its showing a 20% direct hit rate at 70th. Crit at 1300 isn't that high I think its only around 10-16%. So direct hit is having a large impact, and I suspect that Det will too.

At present I've only done Sussano and Lakshimi, but I was top DPS in Lakshimi. Even higher than the BLM, but I suspect its because there is an ungodly amount of movement in that one and we're incredibly mobile. So likely RDM can end up in the top of Raid DPS too.

[TheChemicalCat]

Accelerate + Scatters

unless I'm mistaken, Accelerate has no affect on scatter, doesn't it? Additionally even if you were using a Scatter->Veraero/thunder spam for quicker mana gain, accelerate would still be a waste since you'd be hard casting scatter, not verstone/fire

[Silverquick]

unless I'm mistaken, Accelerate has no affect on scatter, doesn't it? Additionally even if you were using a Scatter->Veraero/thunder spam for quicker mana gain, accelerate would still be a waste since you'd be hard casting scatter, not verstone/fire

You're right I said it wrong. I was just so used to kicking it in to fill the guage I did it out of habit with Scatter too. I should correct that.

[Garotte14]

Snip

First, you shouldn't be opening with Contre Sixte on trash mobs. You should get into the habit of weaving any oGCDs under Dualcast.

As for your dungeon opener, there's nothing wrong with it, but an opener with a full mana gauge will be irrelevant because any content that matters wouldn't ever have a full gauge. I.E. Raid and Primals. So I wouldn't focus on that as much and make sure your opener from scratch is solid and you'll be good to go.

[Silverquick]

First, you shouldn't be opening with Contre Sixte on trash mobs. You should get into the habit of weaving any oGCDs under Dualcast.

As for your dungeon opener, there's nothing wrong with it, but an opener with a full mana gauge will be irrelevant because any content that matters wouldn't ever have a full gauge. I.E. Raid and Primals. So I wouldn't focus on that as much and make sure your opener from scratch is solid and you'll be good to go.

So far its been working just fine...

If you want I can easily send you parce logs up to this point... Red Mage is a top level DPS...

If you want them... just let me know where you want me to send them.