Props for RDM, Devs!

[Arutan]

It lacks some good AoE abilities tho for a mage.
Scatter isn't very a strong AoE ability and isn't even worth using if there's not plenty of mobs, and Enchanted Moulinet is good but you need to build your gauges for it and it takes too much time to just deal AoE damage at the moment you need it, plus usable 3 times max if you have 90/90

[Shurrikhan]

It's strong, mobile, and fairly fluid. Overall, it's one of the more fun jobs I've experienced since the SB changes.

But I'll still mourn the spell fencer it could have been, rather than a BLM with a 5s melee burn phase...

[Kathryn]

RDM is what I've been waiting for since 1.0 so im well chuffed ill be happier when I get to play and lvl it.

[Tonkra]

It lacks some good AoE abilities tho for a mage.
Scatter isn't very a strong AoE ability and isn't even worth using if there's not plenty of mobs, and Enchanted Moulinet is good but you need to build your gauges for it and it takes too much time to just deal AoE damage at the moment you need it, plus usable 3 times max if you have 90/90

Well the AoE damage of RDM is decent enough i would say since you cast one AoE instantly afterwards you normally casted one (its about 800 - 1k damage per dungeon mob at lv 60). Additionally at lv 60 you get the abillity to double your black/white mana. so that you can increase the usage of enchanted moulinet for max 4 times at least.

But i dont see why a RDM should be able to perform the same burst AoE damage like a black mage, since RDM is a hybrid and also able to heal. Its fine as it is.

a DRG / BRD / SMN or whatsoever job isnt also able to perform this much AoE damage (like a blm) either.

/edit but since the damage of healers got pushed in this patch sometimes i feel that a WHM could do the same damage as a rdm but i havent watched this closely enough^^

[seraseth]

I actually only went to try out my rdm because I was stuck behind the raubahn wall. And I'm so glad I did, I think I'm going to have to send him a fruit basket!

I absolutely love rdm. It's easily the most I've enjoyed a job since ARR launched.

And as a side perk, although the collar tug is great too, the hair flip on a female char just makes me giggle every time.

[Kogasan]

I used to be a main summoner. Then Stormblood came around and ruined it for me. But then I tried red mage and realized how fun it was and that I liked it more then I ever liked summoner pre-Stormblood. So that's how I made red mage my main. Thank you Square-enix for nerfing summoner and giving us red mage you showed me what I should have been all along.

[Deedsie]

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.

Maybe for some, but I was one who stood in defiance to all that and got ahold of gear/food to push through and make it happen anyway. Got me a reputation with certain individuals to seek me out specifically first if available before picking from habitual backliners.

Which comes to the summary of my gripe with this version of Red Mage...not enough swordplay.

[Kikoten]

I LOVE RED MAGE.

At first I thought it was going to be something I'd try out, shrug at, and go back to WHM or WAR. But, man, once I started fighting enemies, I couldn't keep the grin off my face. That's the type of magic caster I like: effective at a distance, effective in melee, and can heal to boot.

It's the jack of all trades, master of none, but oftentimes better than the master of one.

[KisaiTenshi]

I'll wait for all the RDM spam to go away from PotD and PvP before I venture too much further. Right now every roulette or PotD is SAM/SAM RDM/SAM or RDM/RDM for DPS, which is fine, but since those jobs start at 50, they know absolutely nothing on how to play it, so many of the dungeon runs are just simply facerolls while they spam whatever they think works.

I do think the mechanics of it look a lot more fun than I had hoped. It also helped that the MSQ basically made Alisaie an Red Mage without actually stating it directly (aside from one reference to the male Miqo'te in red.) So you do see Alisaie in far more solo sequences than Alphy in V3.0 content. Alphy is still an Arcanist (not a summoner or scholar since he only summons carbuncle.)

I think it certainly helps the case for a job if one of the MSQ characters has that job. With Alisaie having the Red Mage job, and Gosetsu having the Samurai job, you at least get an idea of what a new job looks like. None of the V3 jobs did this.

[syunikiss]

I've been waiting for years for Red Mage to be in FFXIV.
Worth the wait.