Lets Talk - Red Mage

[KoujiGeki]

Well i do aggre with some of the post here. Yes Rdm will be hard to add. My personal guess is that it will be extremely under powered when it finally does come out.

That is only MY opinion cause i look at it that they will build it around PvP. Which sorry i don't agree with. I don't want them to not add PvP, it's just I don't think PvP when i think of the FF series. If i remember right only Final Fantasy Tactics, Dissidia, and 11 had PvP. And I see PvP turning into Ballista in 11, Fun for 1st year. Then hardly anyone touching it. (atleast on Siren)

I agree on not making Rdm a copy of 11. And when i said hastega and refreshga i meant if they add them. Yes it did keep me busy, but when i'm in a party (Pre-aby) with pld, blu, drk, smn, and a thf me. Them all wanting Haste and the Summoner being an ass hole not using garudas Hastega cause "Oh Haste is better than Garudas Hastega" I wanted to drown him in a pool of Lava. So by the time i finished the cycle of Refresh then haste i need to restart refresh while still trying to cure and/or enfeeble. Thats what drove me nuts.

And sorry to the people who are mad about another Red Mage post. Sorry not gonna surf the forums to find a old post to Necro bump it which would also probably piss you off. This is only a speculation topic you can read that in the title, you don't need to read or reply to it.

[moriandrio]

It's really easy, you want play RDM -> go play ffxi

[Wynn]

I'd like to see RDM just as much as I'd like to see any Final Fantasy job in XIV. However, I have a fundamentally different view of RDM from some others.

To accurately view what RDM "is," we have to look at more than just XI. RDM is not a buffer job, it is not a debuffer job, and it is NOT a pure caster job sitting in the back line with the other mages. It is a front line, armor wearing, melee sword fighter that is able to cast both white and black lower level magic, never at the level of expertise of white or black mages of the same level. You don't see RDMs casting high level powerful magics.

That is their balancing mechanism.

Red Mages being front line combatants with casting ability is no different from Paladin or Dark Knight. If this capability makes RDM overpowered then you must also concede that the other classes mentioned are overpowered as well and I doubt anyone would make those claims.

[PSxpert2011]

One of the Jobs of Old. .............

Let's talk Musketeer.

[KoujiGeki]

Let's talk Musketeer.

Get the F&*% outta my Bounty Hunters meeting!

Lol jk. Make a post about it if you want.

[Scherwiz]

I swear this thread has been made like 4 other times.

[strallaalaa]

I swear this thread has been made like 4 other times.

shush you, the same people like to repeat there ideas over and over again till someone recignizes there authoritor. you do know ideas are like poems and blogs, people love to hear themselves talk.

[Tonkra]

i dont know.. red mage from FFXI is very similar to a gladiator (FF14) who equips thm and cnj spells.. (before the class reformation even more, because he could have had paralyze etc.)

sword skills (red lotus etc.), fire, and all other elemental spells, heals, buffs.. well just regena, refresh and -en spells are missing. but he has the gimp versions of attack spells.

[Haibel]

I've been thinking RDM's focus should probably be on Magic Weaponskills for damage, combining the Black mage side into the melee side and forcing front lining in order to operate with maybe one or two support spells.

Which is basically the same thinking I have for RDM in this game. There were enough
weapon skills stripped from Thm and Cnj to make Fen/Rdm under this kind of theory.

Have this Class/Job Combo have elemental rapiers available, and some just straight damage versions since in my build fencer can add light or dark dmg to the weapons.

[Haibel]

To all the people groaning about another RDM Thread. If you don't want to be apart
of the converstion, then don't. It's really that simple. You guys would bitch about it
if he necro'ed one of the old threads anyway. There are people that like RDM, and
want to talk about it. It hurts you in no way.