Thread: My desired changes for Red Mage in patch 7.0

Originally Posted by TheMightyMollusk

My desired change is to make the next relic hat work on Viera and Hrothgar. I don't wear a lot of hats, but red mage feels naked without a cool hat.

Pretty sure the connection between a RDM and their hat should be lore by now.

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.

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.

RDM should be 3rd worst aDPS, while every job in its T/H/D category are 1% rDPS from each other. RDM should give much more offensive buffs than just Embolden, so they're the "BRD/DNC" of casters.

Originally Posted by Reinhardt_Azureheim

Haha that's funny, Viera wearing hats, it is almost like something they could've done in Ivalice-based games.

Oh wait, they did.


And they're Red Mages, no less.

Small indie dev pls understand

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

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.