What keeps you playing?

[athy]

Re: What keeps you playing?

i like the fact the rdm can heal and fight. plus they get the best of both white and black magic.

[fuz]

Re: What keeps you playing?

soloing doesn’t mean Lullabying it every 3 swings >.> then resting. BLMs solo faster than BRDs

It's not so much speed of killing, but they are much tougher than melees (without utsusemi) in general. I see bards fighting things I wouldn’t dare touch on my drk, but my rdm could do in 1/3 the time.

Rdm doesn't get the best of black and white magic... we get the slightly better than subbed abilities. Our elemental spells are meh... our healing without -ga's and regen 2+ is inefficient. Having no status cures really sucks. We're a mix of defense and offense, leaning more towards the defensive side, with a tendency to burn MP (rdm isn't exactly an efficient spellcaster).

If anything, we're indirect mages, giving others MP that cast better, or enfeebling so that melees work better. Even our en-spells are not direct mp-->damage. We work in a very roundabout way, using proxies to cover our inefficiencies when possible.

Our power is flexibility in our collection of abilities, not because our abilities by themselves are good.

[Killagouge]

Re: What keeps you playing?

What keeps me going?

Why do I keep pushing for a more Hybrid RDM stragity?

Why do I gut down and backline when my party leater asks it of me so I can get the levels to test my theories?

For love of the job. Its History, its complexity, its representation. You really have to see my post on conseptions of a Red Mage to really undersand the level of passion I hold for this job; The master of the duel, the one and only Magical Fencer.

The name 'Hyrist' is a drivitive from three words in latin, that basically means "This is it" Or roughly "This is me". Its the reason why its on my FF1 Character, its the same reason why its on this one. Hyrist is me, had I the power, the reponciblity, the training, and the enviroment. This is what I would be.

Even when I level other jobs, I am still a Red Mage, I am still a stragitist and a theologist. A scollar of life, as it were. A jack of all arts, a master of stragity, though he is master at no specific task. Thats how I like to think of myself in this game. Its very few times where my stragities dont work, and I am putting that record to the test with this research I am doing.

Red Mage isnt just an approach in the game, its an approach in life. And I am proud to be playing the one class I have respected and admired above all otherse in this epic seriese of games.

That post, has made me want to play RDM again. I played one with some friends from work, they all moved onto WoW, so I went with them. I miss XI, and the RDM class. Thank you sir, you have inspired me to come back.