Props for RDM, Devs!

[Hayward]

I don't know what manner of sorcery you guys used to pull off Red Mage--at the start of 2.0 I couldn't figure out how this job could work in XIV--but I have to give you guys all the credit for doing something the devs at XI couldn't do: make RDM a fun AND useful job to play.

I'm currently at level 54, just dabbling in between doing the MSQ, and I can honestly say I am enjoying the job and storyline. Keep it up.

[LittleChickenNugget]

Stop posting positive things on these forums!

On another note, RDM is really fun!

[Fawkes]

but I have to give you guys all the credit for doing something the devs at XI couldn't do: make RDM a fun AND useful job to play.

Can't say I agree there, I liked RDM in XI.

But I also like it in XIV. I wish it had a wider variety of spells, but the dualcast mechanic is fun.

[CaptainFishSticks]

Thanks to the server issues over the weekend, I decided that RDM was going to be my new main for this expansion.

[LunaFaye]

I never played XI therefore I am not sure what it was supposed to be. But I am having a blast, started that job right at the beginning, thinking I wouldn't like it and could just move on. But I can't find myself switching to another class as of current. My RDM is level 62 right now, but man I really would like to try sam, not going to see that happening soon lol

[Ametrine]

I absolutely love Red Mage, even when I did a LolDRG and backflipped off the arena in Titan.

[Dualgunner]

I love Red Mage a lot! It's an amazing class. It is very simple yet very rewarding gameplay, and I love frontloading all my damage into bursts without the need to worry about DoTs!

[Duelle]

I never played XI therefore I am not sure what it was supposed to be.

RDM in FFXI was built as a generalist class that could do a little bit of everything.

Post-NA launch, the job was given a focus on debuffing, spells that came standard for white/black magic (Protect, Cure, Raise, Stoneskin, elemental nukes) and was given a way to sort of combine melee with magic with Enspells (self-buffs that added elemental damage to your auto-attacks). It was also one of the only two jobs that could restore MP of other people in combat. The community decided to give the middle finger to everything but the ability to restore MP (via a spell called Refresh), and pigeonholed RDM to become what we old-timers call a refresh-bot. Enfeebles had wonky durations and required you to have gearsets with ridiculous stats to get around level correction, you weren't allowed to melee because you needed to both rest for MP so that you could cast Refresh (and Haste once that came into the picture) and level correction wrecked your melee damage (even with Enspells) to the point of uselessness. Two expansions later, RDM was used as a healer and Cure was added to the rotation of Cure/Refresh/Haste.

Yeah, the artifact gear looked great and we loved the hat, but RDM in FFXI was NOT a good or fun in group content if you went in to mix sword and spell. This was even more grating because our relic and empyrean sets pointed to swordsmanship but did nothing to support it (relic set was the Duelist's set, empyrean set was Estoqueur's set).

[Roda]

I'm absolutely adoring redmage and can't wait to fully convert it into my main! ♥

[Mahri]

I'm having some tricky times trying to develop the instinct not to use Jolt when Dualcast is up. On paper it's very simple, but when you're used to other styles of playing it's oddly disorienting.

Nonetheless, yeah, this job is insanely fun and I might main it.

Even after Fleche gets its inevitable nerf.