Quote Originally Posted by Leidiriv View Post
Speaking as someone who actually plays Red Mage, that opener makes me want to cry. First, the Embolden is extremely late. Second, Embolden should always be in the second weave slot to maximize the GCD gains for yourself and your party members. Third, the absolute earliest Acceleration can be used in the opener is at -16. Also, outside of fights like Eden Prime or Titania, a 10 spell opener is overall better thanks to the increased mana generation, which allows for more Reprise usage throughout the entire fight.
Ah! Thank you for pointing those out. You really only get the melee combo, VerFlare, and Scorch within Manafication, so those should definitely be switched. If the Embolden timing you're referring to after the first Corps-a-Corps with Engagement before Manafication, then I can say that the Embolden timing I'm going for does 30 potency more since it should catch the entire melee combo, plus Corps-a-Corps (plus both VerFlare and Scortch get an 8% damage boost).

Also, whoops! Made a big boo-boo with that Acceleration timing note. Forgot that the timer still counts down until all the stacks are used, so I'd probably advise using it as early as 15secs. Thank you.