Seeing Red - A Complete Red Mage Guide

[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?

[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.