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Not an RDM myself..
I'm not an RDM myself, but I recruit PTs quite often. I can vouch for RDM's usefulness from that alone. They cast faster than either WHM or BLM due to the update on level 15 JA Fast Cast. They have the highest weakening skill in the game: which means that their debuff spells (previously listed) have a better chance of landing if they skill up properly. ^^ Most of the caster advice here is perfect. I have recently made samurai my main and my best friend Tayko, she has become RDM as she always wanted. As you can see in my sig, I play mostly fighters. So, what I will add here, is WS information for RDM. It is something to be aware of, but I will simply state up front that RDM is ?Ô–‚“¹Žm or Red Magic Master. They are primarily a mage. This information is for completeness of understanding this job. Likely it will not be useful in a PT of 6 for leveling up. (However, attacking is fairly useful to Tayko when she and I play in 2 person PT ^^)
RDM is weak not only because of weapon skill grade - they also have Ex on only a few weapons.. and No Ex2 from what I can see. Skill grade determines the maximum skill you can have per level. Ex means belonging to a certain MJ or SJ. Ex2 means MJ only. This website:
http://www.ausystem.org/~aushacho/gbox/ff/skill.html
will show you the grades, Ex, and Ex2 for each weapon skill, evade skill, and magic skill. From you can see that RDM, will get no level 200 WS (many of which are fairly powerful). They may not get 225 WS, so far their skill is not high enough. They are only Ex on dagger which can get them the Energy Steal WS, that may or may not be useful (perhaps Jei can answer that). Their highest grade weapons are dagger and 1h sword. Add to this that in the expansion they have received a level 68 rare 1h sword, Enhance Sword - it is fairly powerful from the stats I have seen (It is RDM only, I have used that sword mages in FFV haha).
In short, this knowledge wasn't really detailed here, so I thought I would add it. (Hi, shar~ Yes, she is also my friend ^^). You are mage foremost, and PT will look for you as mage from 20 onward. As for race, mithra and hume are both fairly equal as far as casting mithra has slightly less MND. Otherwise, mithra is perfect for RDM, as is hume (Tayko is a mithra~ ^^). Taru will do fine. Elf can make it. ^^ (Just look at shar~ all big and level 40 now ^^) Galka would be an extreme challenge.. haha Well, hope this was worth the 20-30 minutes it took to type haha ^^
I'm not an RDM myself, but I recruit PTs quite often. I can vouch for RDM's usefulness from that alone. They cast faster than either WHM or BLM due to the update on level 15 JA Fast Cast. They have the highest weakening skill in the game: which means that their debuff spells (previously listed) have a better chance of landing if they skill up properly. ^^ Most of the caster advice here is perfect. I have recently made samurai my main and my best friend Tayko, she has become RDM as she always wanted. As you can see in my sig, I play mostly fighters. So, what I will add here, is WS information for RDM. It is something to be aware of, but I will simply state up front that RDM is ?Ô–‚“¹Žm or Red Magic Master. They are primarily a mage. This information is for completeness of understanding this job. Likely it will not be useful in a PT of 6 for leveling up. (However, attacking is fairly useful to Tayko when she and I play in 2 person PT ^^)
RDM is weak not only because of weapon skill grade - they also have Ex on only a few weapons.. and No Ex2 from what I can see. Skill grade determines the maximum skill you can have per level. Ex means belonging to a certain MJ or SJ. Ex2 means MJ only. This website:
http://www.ausystem.org/~aushacho/gbox/ff/skill.html
will show you the grades, Ex, and Ex2 for each weapon skill, evade skill, and magic skill. From you can see that RDM, will get no level 200 WS (many of which are fairly powerful). They may not get 225 WS, so far their skill is not high enough. They are only Ex on dagger which can get them the Energy Steal WS, that may or may not be useful (perhaps Jei can answer that). Their highest grade weapons are dagger and 1h sword. Add to this that in the expansion they have received a level 68 rare 1h sword, Enhance Sword - it is fairly powerful from the stats I have seen (It is RDM only, I have used that sword mages in FFV haha).
In short, this knowledge wasn't really detailed here, so I thought I would add it. (Hi, shar~ Yes, she is also my friend ^^). You are mage foremost, and PT will look for you as mage from 20 onward. As for race, mithra and hume are both fairly equal as far as casting mithra has slightly less MND. Otherwise, mithra is perfect for RDM, as is hume (Tayko is a mithra~ ^^). Taru will do fine. Elf can make it. ^^ (Just look at shar~ all big and level 40 now ^^) Galka would be an extreme challenge.. haha Well, hope this was worth the 20-30 minutes it took to type haha ^^
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