>create an interesting and aesthetically cool class
>it was dogshit because of memes in all the other games so you purposefully make it dogshit in your newest game because "everything must be like ff1"
why do they do this?
Create an interesting and aesthetically cool class
Austin Harris
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Hunter Hughes
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Jason Sanchez
There's two ways to make a DPS class in any mmo, either be a utility DPS or be the most damage dealing class. RDM takes the utility DPS crown.
Colton Morgan
>>it was dogshit because of memes
Whats wrong with it exactly
Jose Brooks
I'm guessing you are talking about red mage in FF14.
In FF11 RDM was in demand for all types of content.
With magic like refresh, haste, debuffs and main healer potential there were short supply LFG.
At some point SE really tried to drive home that RDM is supposed to be a frontline melee mage but the established wisdom kept them in the back line.
IMO FF14 was trash out the gate with their gay elemental magic spam and mobs on some kind of dog chain tether that people took advantage of to run through entire dungeons without fighting anything til the boss room.
Charles Murphy
In ff14 RDM is just trash
>melee component is only a short burst window
>one of the lowest damage jobs in the game
>has only a res as its utility which becomes worthless as soon as people understand how to play the game
It's utterly retarded
Colton Jenkins
Red Mage has been around since 1987 my dude
Austin Lewis
Thanks for the info esl-kun
Parker Brown
But SMN, NiN and DRG all have more utility and deal more damage
Asher Mitchell
what are you talking about?
your DPS and utility are 99% same, it doesn't matter what class you play
games is way too balanced if you ask me
Oliver Green
Noob here, what's supposed to be essence of the red mage exactly?
I only played bravely default and in there they had gimmicks that activated when they dodged attacks and they could learn monster skills.
is that supposed to be it?
Kevin Ortiz
Their gimmick is"jack of all trades, master of none" so totally worthless
Juan Jones
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SE really had it out for this taru who was soloing endgame bosses with RDM and one day made all NMs build immunity to status effects.
People really just wanted FFXI-2 but instead you get a sinking flagship. They saved it from sinking but now I hear it's full of toxic elitists (who deprive the public of skilled players) and faggots. Glad I made a hard pass on that game. FFXI was king.
Sebastian Gutierrez
Red Mage is meant to be a perfect balance between Black and White mage, you use both of their healing and offensive skills in turn with looking like a member of the Spanish Inquisition the entire time.
The idea however is Red Mage isn't master of either though, limiting their endgame usage. In XIV however, they're everywhere because the player base adores this job.
Liam Roberts
They play it because melee mages are almost never a playable class and it speaks volumes at how much people love and play the job despite it being literal garbage in xiv
Anthony Ortiz
Zoomers were a mistake
Daniel Barnes
Red mage was supposed to provide the player of FF1 with both colors of magic (limited) so they didn't need to put both a black mage and a white mage in their party. Red Mage has typically been the "jack of all trades" job that does everything but not quite as good a s a melee, black magic or white magic specialist.
Later games put a spin on it, adding features like casting twice in a row, or regenerating HP and MP, or having stronger status ailment spells. What a Red Mage does differs from game to game.
John Nguyen
>14 zoomers don't even know how good RDM was in 11
Sad
Lincoln Perry
RDM is/was comfy for prog and roulette carrying but the new mana economy is going to make SMN just as effective afaik
Asher Howard
Red mage is also a capable fighter so it is also mix between mage and warrior.
If the FFXIV Red Mage actually was based on FF1 it would be the most broken class in the game, far from dogshit.
Lincoln Flores
Yeah, too bad SE fucking hates RDM so the one time they were good they quickly corrected in 14 by making it trash