RDM First Impressions (and perhaps advice) Thread

[Maeka]

Black Mage has unlimited MP so they can AOE spam infinitely but it's not a constant burst. They have to wait a few seconds for their MP to come back. Their AOE damage is also way higher than Red Mage's. Black Mages are the king of AOE damage this expansion.

They are also glass cannons, and they have next to no mobility from what I saw. It's a decent tradeoff; sustainability and decent sustained damage, but way better mobility and movement options. Even if sometimes it is potentially dangerous. And you can't beat the durability unless you take a tank or a healer job instead, but if you do that, your damage output goes into the dirt.

So it's the best of both worlds even if it doesn't perform as good in endgame. Not every job needs to be awesome at raiding in a game where you can change jobs.