Thread: My desired changes for Red Mage in patch 7.0

Originally Posted by Ivtrix

Small indie dev pls understand

Pls pay no mind that m*dders have already ported a majority of hats to veira and hroth already

Honestly the fact that modders have done this speaks volumes of either them being lousy or too proud to admit when they were wrong. Same applying to virtually every UI change they recently implemented in Endwalker that was deemed impossible.

Seriously if they can't take mod works and implement them even if given for free, just outsource development of it. I find it incredibly strange how short the law leash is for such cases if every player would benefit from some of the stuff the community developed.

Originally Posted by Reinhardt_Azureheim

And they're Red Mages, no less.

They're also static 2D drawings, which have considerably less technical restrictions than a modular player model here.

Regardless of whether Viera hats could be enabled here or not, it's a whole different level of implementation challenge.

Originally Posted by Iscah

They're also static 2D drawings, which have considerably less technical restrictions than a modular player model here.

Regardless of whether Viera hats could be enabled here or not, it's a whole different level of implementation challenge.

Way to go to point out the obvious, what I was merely mocking here was the severe lack of Red Mage hats available to Viera (RDM hats are quite iconic hence why) due to either lacking knowledge, competence or prioritization. I am more than well aware that the perceived difficulty of this task does not match the actual requirements to pull off giving Viera (and Hrothgar) hats and helmets to wear.

That said, if the reason for the lack of such is NOT them using the head/helmet element for their hair + ears and it is more of a thing of "we don't want horrendous clipping with the ears" then I have zero tolerance for this bullshit given the tails from Miqo and Au Ra clipping through capes they shouldn't, long hair clipping through collars when they shouldn't and god knows what other atrocities exist in that, especially given that modders of all people do a better job of making all of this work when CBU3 doesn't.

A melee combo instead of just Moulinet x3 would mess up my very comfortable controller layout.

Ver Raise needs to not interrupt Melee Combo. The number of times someone dies while I'm doing my combo and it feels weird making people wait for a quick res.
RDM needs more mobility tools in general.

Originally Posted by Nav_Fae

Ver Raise needs to not interrupt Melee Combo. The number of times someone dies while I'm doing my combo and it feels weird making people wait for a quick res.
RDM needs more mobility tools in general.

Seconding this. It's weird that the RDM's dps gets extremely punished by someone else's mistake. I'm fine with losing some mana to help the party but throwing a whole melee combat away because someone else messed up feels terrible.

I dont think you really need to improve upon RDM mechanically, its in a very solid position kit wise at the moment

its very easy to pick up and very satisfying to reach the upper limits

the only issue is the res question

Originally Posted by Ivtrix

I dont think you really need to improve upon RDM mechanically, its in a very solid position kit wise at the moment

its very easy to pick up and very satisfying to reach the upper limits

the only issue is the res question

Well, my only changes were Verraise and Reprise, the others are just me figuring out what they're going to add on the levels 91 - 100

Reprise used to be interesting last expansion, but it's Scathe-tier in Endwalker. They changed its recast to a full GCD, which killed its optimization potential. Prior, it did more DPS than your spells, but less than your finisher combo. If they bumped Enchanted Reprise's potency (or reverted the recast change), it could be interesting again. A mobility tool that gives you damage, right up until you lose a melee combo (over the course of the fight) from it, then you lose damage after that. That's much more of a choice-enabler than the strict loss it is now.