User:Itikuo

Itikuo's Guide: Redmage

So you thought about being a Red Mage. Have you asked yourself the following: Do I have courage? Do I have Strength? Do I have lots of gil? For me its yes, yes, why?

A Red Mage is known as Jack of All Trades. Some put a Master of nothing into that phrase but i like to say "RedMage: Jack of All Trades: Master of Versatility.

What other job can restrict a monsters actions, cure party members, Enhance Party members, cause elemental damage that doesn't add to hate, can hit as hard as a PLD, and has a near endless supply of MP?

For those of you who said BLU you can go @#$% yourself. Blue Mage runs out of MP very fast and although can use spells that hit for 400+ dmg or self skill chain without a refresher in the party your as effective as a Warrior.

Typically when you are fighting a monster you need to know the following.

Whats its AoE? Can I Melee? (Sleepga No, JA restrict No | Eva Down Yes, etc) Whats the 2 best enfeebles to cast? (Slow+Blind usually work the best for me) Whats the most effective element to use against it? (Which Enspell to use) Does it have High Evasion? (Gravity) Does it have High Defense? (Dia) Does it hit the tank hard? (Bio) Which party members need Haste "WAR,DRK,PLD,NIN,DRG,SAM,MNK" Which jobs do I refresh? "BLM,SMN,WHM,PLD,BLU" not until higher lvls do DRK need it (special note*** If the DRK is spamming Elemental Magic don't refresh") (Everyone else will agree the DRK is wasting your MP and time)

I jumped the gun so to say. I will back track and talk about race selection for Redmage.

I have Hume and Elvaan RDM but...


 * 1) 1 Mithra| Has identical stats to Humes but higher accuracy for melee
 * 2) 2 Hume| Has well balance of skills and good HP/MP ration
 * 3) 3 Elvaan| Higher melee dmg and better cure/certain enfeebles from highest MND, >MP
 * 4) 4 Tarutaru| Excell in the MP department, strongest elemental, weakest melee
 * 5) 5 Galka| High HP, VIT, STR, | Lowest proficiency in mage side of job, very gear dependant

Mithra: So you have chosen Mithra my favorite choice but not one that I have chosen. You have as much HP and MP as a Hume, about the same stats just slightly lower STR,and CHR which doesn't effect you anyway.

For RDM I say its about a good balance of stats to include HP/MP balance and the best accuracy. Mithra has it all. When we get to gear for rdm you will see why I chose accuracy over pure dmg.

Hume: Same as Mithra only less accuracy and critical hits, more CHR if you ever chose BRD

Elvaan: Hard hitting, Low RBI due to poor accuracy, good MND based enfeebles

Tarutaru: 2nd best acc, #1 MP pool*, Best INT based Enfeebles, 2nd best MND based
 * Special Note*** Having a large MP pool on RDM is nice levels 1-41. But once you have Convert and Refresh only in bad situations will that extra MP be of good use. And If that ever comes up leave the party...there is better out there.

Galka: Merit the ???? out of Convert and MP and you will be ok...

SUBJOB SELECTION!!! Levels 1-25 I chose warrior. Yes I said WAR. You could sub whm,blm,sch but that extra 10-15MP slight boost to INT/MND+1 and access to spells is not worth it to me. Warrior provides extra melee dmg per hit, accuracy, and the stronger of the Weaponskills. @ lvl 20 I would only suggest switching to SCH sub for light/dark arts but thats the choice. @ lvl 20 subbing NIN is nice if you hit often you can have 2 swords or daggers to hit often and with Enthunder for extra 10-15 dmg per hit if your enhancing is kept up. Thats like say swords hit for 11 dmg each= 22 + 10 and 10 from enthunder= 42 dmg per atk successful atk round. Thats like being a DD! Make sure you grab signet so you don't lose your TP while resting your MP, DO REST MP AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE YOUR STILL A MAGE AT THE SAME TIME.

Ok so its level 25 and your about to level. If your headed to Kazham sub something with AOE cure effect that will wake your lazy sleeping comrades from the Mandies AOE TP Move. Stand in the back and enfeeble, cure, nuke,, rest, rinse and repeat. Your a mage for a while.

I will continue to make this thread another day. (Jun 14, 2009)