Red Mage Love Thread

[nexas506]

I love red mage. It's simple, but complex enough to keep my attention. I really do feel like it is a jack of all trades. It's got the black and white magic. Some sword skills. Dual cast (aka chain spell) a buff, and some pretty cool looking ranged magic sword attacks.

I know there are some old school FF fan boys out there that aren't too happy.
I'm an old school FF fan boy too, and I like the way it was translated into ff14. It really does feel like this worlds version of a red mage.

It didn't even come close to what I originally thought it should be when it was first announced, but I'm very happy and pleasantly surprised with how it turned out.

[Nicodemus_Mercy]

I'm actually enjoying a dps job for once. I appreciate the relative simplicity and lack of crazy finger gymnastics required for RDM.

I used Drain till I got Vercure. No reason to use it once you have Vercure imo. My role skills are Lucid Dream, Erase, Mana Shift, Apocatastasis and bouncing between Surecast and Diversion depending on how bad my tank is at holding aggro.

[Shadowzanon]

I love red mage, I had healers die and tanks with low health, heal tank, rez healer, then focus on tank till healer gets their stuff together.

[Hyrist]

Everyone who's known me for years knows I live and breathe Red Mage. It's almost a discredit for me to speak about it like it isn't assumed. I wish I could play it more but my GF wants it for her main character, and my main character is dragoon. (Lin Celistine was my FFXIV character because there was no Red Mage before hand, and I just could not play Hyrist in a Final Fantasy game as a main without him being a RDM, so he got regulated back.)

So, that's a whole heaping level of bias, but also a large level of expectation.

Expectation I feel Square Enix met quite well with Red Mage here. There's Melee interaction, the spells feel fluid and worthwhile. Every time playing it is a joy.

[Silverquick]

Yeah its obviously pretty popular, and the DPS it puts out is incredible.

EDIT: I've got Parces right now from Lakshimi, and this thing is just wow...

[Liquid_Amnesia]

I love the RDM's style, both visually and in its combat mechanics. Learning the dance took a bit of work, and I still forget to pop Manafication once in awhile, but combat is fun. Normally, I'll main a healer and so I find Vercure to be a source of comfort in solo-play and great in emergencies.

I prefer to be a bit more supportive with my cross-role skills, so I pick up Lucid Dreams, Swiftcast, Apoc, Addle, and Mana Shift. I've actually gotten a few commendations as a result of boosting the healer's mana pool in a few dungeons so far.

The queues are the only downside.

[Anyan]

I absolutely love it! It feels so fluid and wonderful to play, and still goes KABLAM!! which is very satisfying. It's also pretty sexy if I say so myself. So relieved all my caster gear didn't go to waste since I dropped smn. I can use all of it for my new main job. <3

[Isala]

I just got THE HAT today. Finally hit 70, and am absolutely loving it. I blew through the levels before really doing much of the MSQ due to PvP, so watching this dapper Elezen in all the cutscenes is amazing.

[IchiExorz]

I'm absolutely in love with RDM.
It's everything I wanted in a class. I always have problems picking a main and until before SB I really didn't know if i wanted to stick with DRG, SMN or start playing MNK.
But ever since SE showed off RDM I instantly knew i would be playing this.

I don't care if it gets nerfed or if its "not meta" I'll play it whenever I can. Both PvE & PvP

[Amulrei]

I don't care if it gets nerfed or if its "not meta" I'll play it whenever I can. Both PvE & PvP

Do you have any tips for RDM PvP? I was having some issues with it since we have none of our off-CD damage spells, No Vercure, No Tether or Break and our only Heavy-applying move is a melee ability with a 2 second duration. I am likely doing something wrong but I have quite a lot of issues stopping people either walking out of my spell range or charging in, landing a stun and nuking me in melee.