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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 28 พ.ค. 2018
- This one has been a long time coming, in more way than one. I've yet to tackle a mage job (Geomancer is a mage but it's more of a support really) on this channel and work has kept me busy lately so this has been delayed getting to air.
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Equipment Sets
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TP: www.ffxiah.com/item-sets/359200
Savage Blade: www.ffxiah.com/item-sets/359203
Chant du Cygne: www.ffxiah.com/item-sets/359204
Enfeebling Magic: www.ffxiah.com/item-sets/359198
Enhancing Magic Skill: www.ffxiah.com/item-sets/359202
Enhancing Magic Duration: www.ffxiah.com/item-sets/359201
Elemental Magic: www.ffxiah.com/item-sets/359199
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Time-Stamps
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0:29 - Overview
1:01 - Strengths & Weaknesses
4:22 - Merits
5:07 - Abilities
10:24 - Tips, Tricks, and Tactics
11:20 - Enhancing Magic
13:24 - Enfeebling Magic
17:19 - Scholar Sub (Crowd Control)
19:11 - Melee Red Mage I (Tactics: TP and Weapon Skills)
21:42 - Melee Red Mage II (Enspells)
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Hiatus - Becoming
Hiatus - Dawn
Jean Michel Jarre - Oxygen II
Yiar Albeg - Chasing Inspiration
We Plants Are Happy Plants - Underneath the Form
We Plants Are Happy Plants - Euphrosyne
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I mention this towards the end of the guide and rather than have to skim through the requests for what the next job should be I'll just pin a thread up top here. The jobs I have mastered and feel as though I know enough to do justice are.
NIN / COR / WAR / SAM / WHM
COR COR COR!
Being a whm main myself I would love to see gear sets and maybe some tricks I have yet to know about. I know you just did a mage but you have done so many dps jobs I would love to see some more support jobs running around here!
CORSAIR YEA!
COR!!
WHM because I have yet to formulate some good sets. Go in-depth on it.
I would love to see an updated version of this.
Maybe after Rune Fencer update.
Red Mage is my first love.
FFXI truly needed a guide like this for soooo long TY. I have recently come BK to FFXI and ur info is so welcome keep them coming i need all the catch up i can get
Feb 2019 update: saboteur now provides its enhancement via a 1 minute duration buff, allowing you to stick all your enfeebles with its bonuses. Recast on saboteur is now 3mins instead of 5.
I'm enjoying your job guides, even though you might not play some jobs frequently they still serve as a good self-critique.
What class do you want to be?
Red Mage: Yes
These videos are so helpful, thanks for keeping them going! I'd love a COR guide, but really whatever is all good. I started playing GEO & PUP largely thanks to how useful your videos were to explaining them, PUP especially :)
I use to tank HNMs as 75 RDM/NIN. By far the best tank. I miss those days!
Fantastic video by the way! Keep them coming!
I know this is years later, but awesome guide. Honestly red mage feels awesome in ffxi, and love how there's more class customization than ffxiv
Been waiting a long time for this! Keep up the awesome work!
mikkozak Meant to have it out sooner but the past two weeks have been pretty mad at work.
You know rdm was really only a support role. Mostly used for raise and refresh. If you played old school ffxi. Drk/rdm was a beast in dynamis also.
On spring break with fam, getting withdrawals so watching this on repeat.
Red mage's versatility and jack of all trades status, really makes their subjob choice so open.
For soloing, my preference is dancer subjob with Red Mage. The dual welding, an esuna ability, instant cast sneak/invisibility and TP based healing, are such a powerful sustainable backup for a Red Mage. You get instant-cast healing with your dance waltzes, and if you want, you can drain HP and MP from your target, supplementing your spells if need be and you pretty much have an endless supply of healing potential for yourself since you now have MP healing and TP healing. Plus if fighting an enemy with MP, you can drain that out of them to power your spells at the same time, while still gathering TP to use as backup
I remember farming beehives in Gustaberg to make my own echo drops. Also, damn, keeping all party members hasted was such a headache to keep up, but felt good for sure.
once composure came out, life changed forever. used to cast all buffs on self and then remove it and focus on buffing party members for a whole 7 minutes and then repeat. (haste used to wear off so fast)
Thanks for another informative video! I vote you do corsair or ninja next. Corsair is first choice. Keep up the good work!
I'd say for this and all activity intense jobs, macro proficiency and economy of layout is key.
People actually get confused into thinking that RDM's gear for Savage Blade isn't as good as it actually is, while in reality if you are paying attention, it's very solid. I would argue it is more compelling than their CDC options (obviously assuming Sequence). (I'm also not saying CDC RDM is weak, it can be good with enough polish). The WSD 6 Augments on AF and Relic seem weak at first when compared to the jobs that get WSD 10% pieces, but it is offset by having higher STR/MND(especially MND) than their Jhakri counterparts. This makes AF+3 hands slightly better than Jhakri hands due to higher STR/MND, and with Regal Earring paired, a fair bit of accuracy as well. Relic+3 body has higher STR/MND than Jhakri, and the Relic+3 head is significantly ahead of Jhakri.
Also, many people gearing RDM for DPS often spring for Ternion Dagger +1 as their offhand (Which is honestly quite sensible for CDC), but for those building Savage Blade, Remember that Colada can get STR and WSD on it as well. It seems that it needs to have at least 7 STR and 3 WSD in order to actually pull ahead, but it can go all the way to 15. Just something worth keeping in mind for those that have the stones and don't mind droning out.
Also there are some that criticize RDM saying that it simply doesn't have melee gear, and in terms of TP sets, it is true that RDM has very bad options, but they often underplay the effects of a 630 Skill Temper II giving them 33 Triple attack indefinitely, as unlike RUN they don't require things like embolden to reach that sort of effect. For getting TP it helps even the odds, and the fact that RDM offers Distract III to the party, it can get away with having a little less accuracy. Savage blade should be mentioned again in this context, as it can benefit from Temper, and while fTP does not transfer across hits, the WSC does, and for this reason, and RDM's excellent savage blade gear, it is not uncommon to see savage blades well in excess of 40k, or even 50k in attack capped situations. This is further aided by the fact that WSD does not affect the subsequent hits, but as I mentioned before, RDM forgoes some of this in favor of more STR/MND, which has a greater effect on those subsequent hits.
For those that don't mind using Dark Matter, the Chironic Feet are a great candidate for DM WSD augments, I have that on mine. I would advise against aiming for WSD on the legs however, unless you are feeling very lucky, as they require at least 8 WSD to even catch up to Jhakri Legs (Combined STR/MND on Chironic is only 48, while the Jhakri legs have 47 STR alone, then also 26 MND, it takes alot to make up for that gap, but it is technically theoretically possible to get STR or MND and the WSD)
Great job on the guides. They are very well made and full of good info. With that said, please make a ninja guide :)
DeX Give me a week or so, its being made.
Neat video. I just got this game because I wanted to try and see what the story is and spend some time during FFXIV lulls, but...my graphics don't look ANYTHING like yours, and my chat window takes up an insane amount of the screen. I gotta figure out how to change whatever settings make mine look more like yours, lol
Anyway, as a person looking into RDM/WHM as my first classes to level, this was really helpful. Thanks!
Rau, your videos are awesome! Very good job, i love them lol I wanted to know where you get all that specifics about how spells work and their formulas, what is your source for that informations?
I go by the BG Wiki for my base calculations then work from there.
RDM served me very well to solo the story with Trusts, including all of SoA and the last bosses of Rhapsodies, and it made me understand how both skillchains and magic bursts work, as well as having great sustainability with buffs, debuffs and cures, but I personally found it hard to find a focus with it after I finished the expansions, in terms of what to gear for first and such, and it felt like it was taking me a while for the job to start shining a bit more... so I went full traitor mode and started working on BLU instead. Perhaps not the smartest choice for several reasons, but it's working for me so far as I had a better idea of where to go with it. Your guide now puts in better perspective for me what to do with RDM and where its strengths lie, so I'll probably end up picking it up again at some point. RDM is still my first main job in this game and I feel attached to it. Thank you for your great work on this video.
With you here.
Red Mage was my first mage job to 99, then to 2100 job points purely because it really makes you learn mechanics which in turn makes you better at other jobs you take up after it.
Back in the day when there was content relevant to charm(maybe they added some again). Rdm/bst was pretty damn fun to solo as.
Not sure if you go back if you read comments on old videos (really enjoy your videos btw and excited to see more lore videos especially!) Would you be willing to do a quick comment edit to update your merit choices post RDM merit updates? I think everything else is still pretty retentive and solid info! Thanks again love your vids!
MothMonstaMan hope he does this!
Just about to hit 99 for the first time, and leaning heavily towards committing to RDM. Any advice on what gear and weapons to prioritize first? I tend to enjoy the en-spell DPS style of play, and so far I've mostly been doing stuff solo. There's so much gear at endgame, it's hard to know where to start and what I can('t) handle!
Any possibility we could get your thoughts on the new RDM merits?
Is this guide route valid for players in Nasomi? Or it is just for the retail version of the game? Is this a job recommended for a new player who's starting in the game?
Thanks!
This seems like a really good job to start off with from 0
Damn I came back last year and just now getting around to RDM i see they've updated the Group II since this video, I was wondering what you thought about what to use in Group II...
Depends. Definitely hit the macc one.
The next one is up to you really. Enhancing is a nice one that is extremely useful. Enspell is really good if you have a croc. Immunobreak is a solid one as well. Pretty much anyone but the accuracy one fits.
I just want to know where I find all the equipment your RM has at the beginning of this video. I’m super eager to get make my RM look the part!
You have to do the artifact missions. The first one can be stupidly frustrsting as you must rely on a random spot that might take forever to find.
ffxiclopedia.fandom.com/wiki/Category:Artifact_Quests
Wow..I've always thought enhancing cap was 500.. Man, if you ever have time I'd love some feedback on my gear sets. No rush of course. I'm on quetz server.
If you have telchine gear with Enhancing duration use those pieces besides the feet (use Rdm empy feet’s) when u cast haste/flurry/refresh on yourself for longer buffs and use the whole empy set for casting those spells on party members, Haste on my self is 20+ minutes and on party members is 6+. If you have Af hands +1,2,3, use them over telchine and your empy Gloves
And if you have reforge Relic, use it over Telchine. +2 is equal duration with added skill, +3 is higher duration and skill
J Davis just need the Bastok dyna win and I’ll have relic body +2, also I found using Excalibur with amurapi shield is better then most grio augments for enfeebleing unless you get god roll augments
great video
Another amazing informative vid man! Keep em coming! I really don't have a choice on what job you do next... I've been retired from game for 9 years now lol.... Though I'd kinda like to see what NIN is up to these days!
Hi, have your rdm sets changed since this video?
Do Paladin PLEASE! It's a relatively simple job and I wanna see your take on it.
Sorry to bother on a old video, I am going to lv rdm for ALOT of soloing and was wondering, is it worth building a Sequence or are there better (easier ) alternatives?.
Also 1 last question as per the new merits, what would be the best tier 2, conflicted on duration of enfeeb and macc?
Naegling, Tauret, Maxentius from ambuscade all good in their own right vs difficulty of getting them
Thanks Ruau! This has helped me understand RDM better as someone who doesn't play the job.
I do have to disagree with you on what spells need to be cast in your Enhancing Skill+ set (as Chris Akin has also pointed out below). I'll paste the cheatsheet I've made for SCH and WHM based on the best info I could find for each spell. It doesn't account for RDM only spells like Phalanx II though.
Enhancing Spells capped via Lv99 base Enhancing Skill (Duration+ set): Protect, Shell, Haste, Flurry, Adloquium, Animus, Auspice, Storms, Refresh, Regen, Stoneskin, Aquaveil
Enhancing Spells 500 cap (Skill+/Duration+ mix set): Boost-, Gain-, Barspells, Embrava, Phalanx
Enhancing Spells with no known cap (max Skill+ set): En-, Temper
Hope this is useful to someone and saves some research time.
Because Rdm can maintain its Magic points so well would it better to use a Raetic Staff over Grio? Or does only the Raetic Staff+1 beat grio?
Raetic Staff is preferable to Grio for nuking. Obviously you would still want Grio for enfeebling skill/m.acc
I'm still so happy rdm was the first job I picked up when starting the game like 15 years ago. Aloud me to do so much. I'm a little pissed seeing that sword. They should have added that shit way over a decade ago. Rdm was always meant to cast and melee not be stuck in the backline 99% of the time.
Yeah, The one thing I hated the most about rdm in XI was the fact it pretty much became a glorified battery charger beyond lv 50, especially when I went out of my way to get a Hornetneedle and Joyeuse. Main reason I went rdm/dnc and played the job almost exclusively solo. It is my opinion that FFXVI did rdm much better. You get a sword, you get to use the damn sword.
@@Prich319 I had a kclub about the last year I played the game. So I had a lot of fun with enspells on rdm in abyssea and so on. I felt pretty good when I quit the game like I got to do most of what I wanted and own shit with kclub on a lot of jobs and could dual box and low maned a lot of stuff with friends which made the game fun. Abyssea was actually a really fun end to ffxi, tons of new stuff and unique challenges and ways to go about doing things with atmas and everyone felt kinda OP. Especiallly with a kclub could low man a lot of shit on ninja or thief fast. I did that shit with smn with all that gear with damage reduction for avatar, it would take only like 3% damage or something it was so much fun lol. Actually got to play all those fringe fun jobs like smn and bst and do really well with them. I had a lot of fun soloing with rdm/brd or rdm/bst or rdm/nin before abyssea too. But after abyssea writing was on the wall game was basically dead at least to me. Ya FF14 rdm was cool how they did it, thats what rdm should have been able to be like all along viable on the front line. But FF14 is a shit show lol. It's barely playable for more than a few weeks at any time. Everything is so cookie cutter it's not fun, jobs in the game are so limited everything is so paint by numbers it gets old so fast. Everything is queued with randoms basically in duty finder which is a blessing and a curse because there is never any community in the game or one where it forces you to make friends to accomplish challenges. No one ever needs to be nice they can do everything on their own. So it ends up feeling like FF13 you are more along for the ride than really playing the game. The crafting is amazing in the game, I loved it but the fucking irony is all the items and gil for all intents and purposes is worthless. All gear is largely worthless compared to random shit you can get in two seconds in duty finder. Housing is cool but they did it moronicly. Only so many people can get it then if you do if you don't play for like a month you lose months worth of gil savings and vanity items. I came back when they implemented that system and lots my cool house I worked so hard on, and then on top of it the fucking ticket from npc to get my items back has a time limit too which is beyond moronic its a fucking video game why would the ticket need a time limit so lost all that shit too. That was the final straw. The whole game is basically working for vanity items. There isn't much sense of accomplishment for anything it's all so cookie cutter. Play with randoms, spam your rotation in some set tiny little map and thats it. the overworld is beautiful and cool but ends up being inconsequential. They made it casual to the extreme and it takes away what really felt great when playing ffxi. I know people are in a different mindset nowadays and maybe such a game won't exist again but it felt better despite all it's issues because of the community it forced you to have and accomplishment actually solving challenges and being able to do things your own way, and everything was limited resources. Just like the real world. You focus on what you want the most. You aren't meant to have everything. That made everyone unique in a sense on the game and specialized a reason to ask friends to help you with something. Sorry long rant. Just pissed at where SE went with FF14 it could have been so much more.
This guy is a beast!!!! Can you take me under your wing!? I have a 99 rdm and always wanted to be really good at it but I had no Idea how good you could be
Jon Flammia you on Asura?
Your savage blade set has a dagger in your main hand
Ruaumoko is the Bob Ross of FFXI.
Is that...jean michel jarre oxygene part 1 I hear in the background? ooooh my childhood
It sure is!
Jean Michel Jarre - Oxygen II
I know it's not related to this video but... i've just started playing ffxi again, i've got a lot of 99 and really wanna to start to gear something up for end game. What classes are in demand, can it gear on its own and what 119 gear should I go for?
Geomancer is a good way to get your foot in the door.
Please do thief
Do u have a discord?
Also gainspells need to be removed from the skill portion, as they very quickly hard-cap at 25 Stat until +3 Relic Gloves
Nice work mate. RDM can be a quite competitive DD especially with the right gear. Savage Blade spam in a Zerg party with good gear and a sequence and you can parse in the top tier. Of course you won’t beat the likes of a good WAR/DRK/SAM, but you won’t be far behind them if your good. You can definitely keep up with a BLU in a capped Pdif party. My wife does it on a regular basis...
I really wish I could have gotten some footage of me on melee RDM with the buffs other DPS get but alas, it's hard to convince people to do that sometimes.
Ruaumoko I’ll try and get some footage of my wife’s RDM in action and post it. I’m very new to TH-cam so it may take me a few attempts, haha! She is a x4 REMA RDM and is very good at the job. I find it hard to get her to play anything else sometimes, lol! Her character name is “Pixzee.”
Ruaumoko but your right. It is very hard to convince some people that RDM is good dps job. Just takes a little effort. I don’t people realize how potent temper II is and that it can proc on WS’s... anyways, I’ll work on getting some RDM footage...
If you would like I'm on Asura, and I have a pretty much ideal Savage set for RDM, as well as a pocket REMA BRD and Idris GEO. I can certainly indulge you there. Name on Asura is Byrne.
@@jdavis7993 heya byrne greetz from busako @asura we talked about rdm last time Nice 2 see you here.
Ninja Plz!
Would love to try ffxi but the free trial isn't as good as ffixv. Plus losing your progress after 90 after your trial ends really sucks
I have a updated lua for RDM if any of you are interested.
github.com/Byrne119/Gearswap/blob/master/RDM.lua
Playing redmage dancer, zero idea if it's good, gonna duel wield daggers
Sam not getting it's love ;-;
who’s here from horizonXI? :)
Volume is 100% and I have to focus to hear your voice ;(.
2002-2008 RDM/NIN OWNED after that FFXI became a JOKE with lvl cap hitting 100....
mouth noises, the guide :^) feels bad as a headphone wearer
Sorry. Was on my old setup.
@@SplitFinn its all gud
You have some wrong/incorrect information in your video, quite a bit actually.
chris akin which? constructive critique helps.
Keep in mind, this isn't trying to measure dick sizes, I don't say this stuff with the intention to make anyone look bad. I just want the information more readily available. I was going to make a reply video, but with the hours I work it (60+ hours a week), I don't have the time. Figure we can just join forces and give the best info possible.
Phalanx 2 is stronger than 1, 36 dmg reduction at 5/5 merits, but that is at the cost of merits. Generally use Phalanx 1 with accession gives the same effect, not like you cast on tanks anymore anyway.
Only spells that really need enhancing magic over 500 would be temper 1/2 and enspells. I have a mess of different sets based off the spell, if I am casting on self or party/ally, potency, potency/duration blend. In example, start of the fight I have a duration refresh for party, mid fight I have a blend for potency/duration, and for critical moments I have a max potency for refresh. Really just a personal preference, but saying rdm only needs 2 sets, just doesn't seem right to me. Casting on self vs party/ally alone should be 2 sets, then splitting into potency or duration for each group doubles the amount of sets instantly.
Merits, I went with Ice and Earth. Addle almost always lands, and if it doesn't a Frazzle will fix that right up, can't think of a time I have had issues with Addle landing and that is casting with sword/dagger most the time.
Second category, Phalanx 2 is a waste as mentioned above regardless of the minuscule 1 point more damage reduction it has over Phalanx 1.
However, the tier 2 versions of Slow, Para, Blind, are actually all much stronger than their counter part.
Bio 3 is a waste.
I went through the Dev post a while back talking about the enfeeble formula for rdm and actually took the time to find out all the base potency of the tier 1 and teir 2 enfeebles.
Just 1 point in Blind 2 will actually give you a stronger blind than blind 1.
Blind 1 = Potency = (1/4)(dINT +80) for dINT > -39; Potency = (1/8)(dINT +120) for dINT
It's fine, I can take constructive criticism fairly enough. Getting the knowledge out there is the main reason I do this as well.
If anyone else reading this has watched my video I can recommend this input.
So you said he had a lot wrong and then agreed with nearly everything he said... right.
"The myth that rdm is so far behind in dps than other jobs when jobs like sam, blu, drg, mnk, rng, cor, and run all fall short is, in my opinion, only because people don't know how to gear rdm melee correctly."
RDM is horribly behind all the heavy DD's and well behind the light DD's. This is a result of gear selection putting an artificial ceiling on DPS that no amount of care bear power will overcome, put RDM on Adhemar / Herc and that problem would largely resolve itself.
Actually, no saevel. I didn't agree with everything, I started off with talking about how I work 60 hours a week and don't have time to discuss everything. The problem is you have and always will only see what you want and try to nitpick it like a little kid.
I talked about the incorrect information about phalanx, then the unnecessary need for fire merits, I went through and brought out the explanation of how blind 2 wasn't a waste.
I also talked about the need for more than 2 enhancing sets, and that 600 skill enhancing is only useful for 2 spells.
I then broke down merits in category 2 talking about the potency of each and gave everyone the knowledge they need to adjust their merits correctly.
The I came back about rdm dps with numbers, and validating proof about a video from a guy that ran rdm dps, that doesn't even have my melee sets yet.
Where is all your validating proof and all your videos of those jobs smashing rdm like you think can be done so easily? I have a great idea saevel, why don't you go get on all those dps jobs and make videos of yourself doing the dps that rdm has been doing. Actually, since you seem to think rdm is such a push over... Go ahead, make some videos of you doing high 5k dps, low 6k dps on drg, mnk, nin, cor, rng. I will wait. Since rdm is doing high 4's low 5's, all those jobs should smash a rdm right? Go ahead, back up your claims for a change.
Until then, do what you do best, and fade into the background and pretend you didn't just get put in your place.
The thing you always seem to forget, is buffs can put rdm way over the cap on attack and that levels the playing field for dps jobs across the board, at that point it is a race of tp building. A 38% triple attack, capped magic haste, and 82 store tp job spamming savage blade is pretty hard to beat.
Wait wait wait. People are still playing FFXI?!!
How out dated is this?
Rdm gets party's, blm's don't.
They’re very good for Sortie and Ongo is literally unwinnable without one.
BLM has uses, good ones for sure
Way to hard of a job to play. requires too many gear sets and macros to be useful. Good luck trying to get that gear since no one wants you in a group.
...No one wants a Red Mage?
@@SplitFinn just from my experience. Im just not good at it. And havnt found the right ppl to play with.
Just wondering is you could talk quieter. You’re really screaming….
Best ffxi feeling was failing rdm solos after kiting for hrs