I am over the moon with this class. <3 I absolutely love it.

During the lead-up to SB - and really, for a while before that - I'd been struggling to pick a main class. Felt like an identity crisis as much as a gameplay question. "What do I WANT to be?" I wasn't sure. I've leveled a few classes to 60 now - despite how long I've been playing the game in general, it was only recently that I got anything other than NIN and WHM up to 50+, because I took a few huge breaks from the game over the years. NIN is the class I've played the most - I still find it fun, but for a while I've been aware that it hasn't felt quite right. And I feel I've hit my personal skill ceiling with it - I can be a decent NIN, but not a great NIN. Started leveling BLM to try caster life, and so far I've been enjoying it, maybe enough to main BLM instead, and use that as my class for progressing through the MSQ in Stormblood? Maybe. Not sure.

So SB lands, and here's RDM and SAM. I tried them both out; SAM is fun and I might level it as another side-class at some point. But RDM... almost immediately, I was hooked. Even at level 50, it's really fun. Got a taste of it at level 60 in PotD and decided to level it up for SB MSQ. Got it to 60 just a few days ago, and I feel even more certain about this decision than I did before. I love the weapon, the idea, and the lore. The 50-60 story for it was quite good, and hot damn it is just so much FUN. I like the caster-y aspects of it (after leveling NIN and BLM, I've had the thought that the slower pace and broader outlook - being able to stand in the back and view the whole battlefield rather than be in the monster's face- suits me better), but I like that it still mixes in some speed and melee. And of course, the sweet threads don't hurt - can't wait to get to 70 and get that AF gear! I kinda feel like, the entire time I've been playing this game, I've just been waiting for RDM to be added. I just didn't know it until now.

As an added bonus, the styling and character of the job even fit really well with the look and personality of my actual character, and it fits in perfectly as her "in-universe" canon class based on the backstory I have for her. So yeah - no more identity crisis, I'm a Red Mage for sure for the foreseeable future.