RDM: You only have yourself to blame, if you expected something else

[Yorumi]

FF1. You got the Masamune and for lots of setups the Red Mage/Red Wizard would be the 2nd best melee. Also a lot of people would have haste on their Red Mage to save Black Mage for damage spells.

So of. While it's true they could wield it it was almost always better on someone else. And if I'm not mistaken I believe even whms could wield it in that game. It's kind of an extraordinary situation and not typical.

But then again, I think I am going to try to put as much spell speed on my RDM as possible, because you'll get the additional benefit of filling the gauges faster. Those long cast times when you don't have a proc or swiftcast...

You're not hard casting veraero/verthunder are you? You're supposed to trigger dual cast with either jolt, impact, verstone, or verfire all those have a cast time less than the gcd.

[ADVSS]

I dont see why you dont just root for mystic knight, its totally the job youre asking for when you want a melee caster. Obviously some things were going to be different it was even stated before that rdm would either be underwhelming or op if it did everything well. Personally I am having a blast, but I love playing casters even though im usually in the enemies grill so this settup works great for me. I think at the roots it does what it basically is at the core. So what if melee was "tacked on" honestly never used melee except to spare mp on "trash mobs" aka pre boss fights. So Im totally fine with this iteration. This discussion has been going on for a very long time now, and its like beating a dead horse. If they made Mystic Knight a DPS I guarantee all the things you wanted from your version of RDM would ne its toolkit


Not only that but lets go back to the RDM tank idea, there you go. Many people have stated that it would fit better for Rune Fencer or Mystic Knight, I dunno why you keep thinking that redmage had lots of sword skill and sword magic, except for 11.

[Warlyx]

ninja is the melee caster (kinda) , so is Drk (and now pld too )