Is there any reason to play BLM over RDM now days?

[Daws]

If you're so serious about min-maxing and besting the hardest content, you're going to play whatever your group needs and what's optimal for the fight. If you're like the majority of the playerbase, just play what you like.

Embolden on the other hand, which isnt amazing, is unfairly given to RDM. (I feel it's more so there to add complexity, since u need to be in melee range to hit melee with it, otherwise if u sit back to cast, you just hit your healers with it, leading to no added dmg. If you have a BRD or MCH, then they dont get it, as you're now in melee range.)
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There's nothing off about it. A ranged caster that builds up to a powerful melee combo has a cd in Embolden that works beautifully (and optimally) with said transition. Makes sense mechanically and for the flavor of the job. It's also just another button to press. For a job that's mindful of its range, there's nothing complex about it.

[IllyriaKnotfred]

If you're so serious about min-maxing and besting the hardest content, you're going to play whatever your group needs and what's optimal for the fight. If you're like the majority of the playerbase, just play what you like.



There's nothing off about it. A ranged caster that builds up to a powerful melee combo has a cd in Embolden that works beautifully (and optimally) with said transition. Makes sense mechanically and for the flavor of the job. It's also just another button to press. For a job that's mindful of its range, there's nothing complex about it.

Erm... Someone correct me if I'm wrong but... The melee combo RDMs do when its enchanted is magical damage and not physical...

[Kabooa]

Erm... Someone correct me if I'm wrong but... The melee combo RDMs do when its enchanted is magical damage and not physical...

This is correct. Enchanted does Unaspected, which is 'Magic'. The regular versions do physical (Which funny enough, lets you hit magical immune things back in the ole 2.0 days)

Fleche and Contra are physical though, I believe.

[JMadFour]

Erm... Someone correct me if I'm wrong but... The melee combo RDMs do when its enchanted is magical damage and not physical...

Embolden increases YOUR magical damage, AND your party's physical damage.

You cast Embolden. You get +10% Magical damage. everyone else in your party gets +10% Physical damage.

it's basically built for use during our Enchanted Melee Combo.

[Furrythefireman]

I was summoner up into stormblood (you already know why everyone jumped ship after level 70, what a wait of time), I tried redmage out and while it was fun in the beginning it got old and boring real fast. But then I started leveling my blackmage omg what have I been missing and this is after the recent update, that dps tho!! I feel like a real grenade launcher with every attack, it took me a sec to get my rotation down ( ps4 player, button mapping) but I love it. I play what I want, I don't raid and can careless about endgame anything I just play for fun, and I run dungeons just for leveling. long story short I feel like a power house with blm, but when ( if they ever) fix summoner I will go back to playing summoner because that will always be my first and favorite job.

[YanderePrincess]

EDIT[/COLOR]: 3 raises and Im out of MP and cant DPS.

I've done more raises than that without running out of mp, and I can get my mp back so easily since my spells are cheap + lucid dreaming, and it means the healers are less likely to run out of mp. Enrage is the only real issue when people are dying a lot, but it is definitely a major issue.

As for Mana Shift, I can use that every time it's off cooldown and have no problems. How the hell are you having mp issues on rdm? Do you not run/use Lucid Dreaming at all? o.O

[Kling-Klang]

RDM did as much dps as BLM because of the mana glitch before 4.05. Now that it is finally fixed BLM is king of caster dps.

[Lelila38]

I dont care who gets Embolden, I think it fits Rdm just fne. What I would like to see is Embolden buff magic dps as well as physical, that way making party comps with more than 1 caster viable. As it stands with Raging Strikes and Foe Requiem gone, we don't have anything left that would buff magic dps.

[Kabooa]

Black mages are better looking, have higher salaries, and and are at the forefront of aetherial study.

Red mages are hippy communists who tell Big Magic that they're killing the planet.

[Kacho_Nacho]

Black mages are better looking, have higher salaries, and and are at the forefront of aetherial study.

Red mages are hippy communists who tell Big Magic that they're killing the planet.

But us red mages score higher with the chicks. Must be that fear a black mage would toss them aside the moment a younger, prettier woman comes along.