Red Mage - Endgame Gear List?

[Remainder]

I'm going to be outright, my 75 Red Mage is atrocious, only leveling it out of boredom due to lack of patience for beastmaster, and the refresh gravy train.

I've finally decided to try and make it better, but since gil is tight, I'm just asking for a list of items so I can know just how many hundreds of millions of gil I would have to possibly farm (unlikely, seeing that farming is unprofitable cept for crafters these days...washy economy..).


Please leave out impossibilities (Excalibur for a melee set, Dynamis Gear, Nyzul / Salvage gear), and elemental staves, and if possible, be specific on what the gear would be for.


Thanks if answered, a full list (even if some is situational.) would be a great aid for me, possible levels of importance attached...

[Drex]

Feel free to add more stuff if I forget something. Gonna leave out melee and enmity gear since I think they should take a backseat to support-RDM gear if you're gimped out.

-HQ Wind, Dark, Earth, and Ice staves. HQ Water might be worth it if you wanna solo a lot.

-Raptor Strap +1, maybe a Staff Strap and Bugard Strap +1 if you wanna go all out.

-Phantom Tathlum

-AF Head (+1), Wise Cap (+1 when you can), Yigit Turban, Duelist's Chapeau

-Magnetic Earring, Loq Earring, MND Earrings (Geists are cheap, communions are better but not cheap), Enfeebling Earring eventually

-Spider/Enfeebling Torque, Elemental Torque for nuking, some kind of MP neck piece

-AF Body (+1), Errant/Mahatma Body, Goliard Body, Duelist's Body, Morrigan's Robe

-Diamond/Snow Rings, Sapphire/Aqua Rings, Omega Ring, Tamas Ring, Serket Ring, Vivian Ring

-Duelist's Gloves, Yigit Hands, Devotee's Mitts +1, Zenith Mitts, Dusk Gloves, Crimson Finger-Gauntlets, Morrigan's Cuffs

-Prism Cape, Aslan Cape, Ixion Cape, Intensifying Cape (convert)

-Penitent's Rope, Hierarch Belt, Swift Belt, Velocious Belt

-Yigit Seraweels, Mahatma Slops/Jet Seraweels (strongly recommend mahatma, but some people disagree), Nashira Seraweels, Morrigan's Slops, Crimson Cuisses

-Yigit Crackows, Errant/Mahatma Pigaches, Duelist's Boots, Morrigan's Pigaches

I didn't really include a lot of convert gear cause it depends on race, hp/mp merits, etc. Just get your hp and mp as close together as possible, with both numbers being as high as possible. Actually, having your mp a bit higher than your hp is good to make up for curing yourself after convert, but you get the idea.

[Remainder]

That's quite a list.

It doesn't seem at all possible for me to get the vast extreme majority of that gear.

-HQ Wind, Dark, Earth, and Ice staves. HQ Water

Raptor Strap +1

Phantom Tathlum

Magnetic Earring

Spider/Enfeebling Torque(0/19 on Dune Widow drop)

Goliard Body, Duelist's Body, Morrigan's Robe(Hah! Yeah right.)

Omega Ring, Serket Ring, Vivian Ring

Duelist's Gloves, Devotee's Mitts +1(have the non+1, but crafters seem to botch the +1's whenever I give them mats in the past, gave up), Zenith Mitts, Dusk Gloves, Crimson Finger-Gauntlets, Morrigan's Cuffs

Prism Cape, Aslan Cape, Ixion Cape, Intensifying Cape (all near impossible, currently with Red Cape +1

-Penitent's Rope, Swift Belt, Velocious Belt

Mahatma Slops/Jet Seraweels (Never claimed NM once in camps, Maha stuff expensive..), Nashira Seraweels, Morrigan's Slops, Crimson Cuisses, Mahatma Pigaches, Duelist's Boots, Morrigan's Pigaches

The above are the items that are outside of my grasp, and will be for years due to gil/line (LS points)/lack of salvage/competent nyzul/einherjar team constraints.

Guess I have unleveling to do.


Thanks for the list, it was a huge help to see just what I needed, and apparently, it was too much for my gimpness to obtain.

[Isiolia]

Maybe if you could post some of your basic gear sets we could suggest some modest upgrades to them. Basic gear is usually workable, provided you have it and macro it right.
The question you posed is a pretty broad one though, so that's what makes it hard to answer.

What do you have for Convert, Idle, Enfeebling accuracy and potency sets, nuking, etc?

Another thing to look at is your approach to obtaining some items. Some of the items you said were out of reach are maybe 150-200k items...which should be far from impossible.

[Zosi]

It's like any other job, if you want to be GOOD, you need a fair bit of gear, including r/ex. If you want to be bleh, you can get by with just having full Errant, full AF, staves, torques, +4 stat rings, hierarch belt, rainbow cape, antivenom/insomnia earrings. That's about the minimum I'd ever invite to do anything, and believe me, I'd still consider them gimp.

[Remainder]

Maybe if you could post some of your basic gear sets we could suggest some modest upgrades to them. Basic gear is usually workable, provided you have it and macro it right.
The question you posed is a pretty broad one though, so that's what makes it hard to answer.

What do you have for Convert, Idle, Enfeebling accuracy and potency sets, nuking, etc?

Another thing to look at is your approach to obtaining some items. Some of the items you said were out of reach are maybe 150-200k items...which should be far from impossible.

As I mentioned, my Red Mage is simply utter trash. So the responses should be expected.

No convert set.

No idle set.

Enfeebling Accuracy and potency:

Paralyze:

Ice Staff,
Bugard Strap+1
AF Body
AF Hat
Red Cape+1
Justice Badge
Hierarch Belt (No others.)
Loquacious Earring
Tamas Ring
Errant Pants
Sapphire Ring
Errant Feet
+4 to Ice Accuracy in merits.

Slow and Others: General Idea, just change staff to corresponding elements, save water and fire staves, which I lack. So in short, No real Enfeebling Potency/Accuracy set. Just riding on capped enfeeb for now.

Nuking Set:

Ice Staff
Bugard Strap+1
Errant Body
AF Hat
Red Cape+1
Philomath Stole
no gloves.
Hier. Belt
Loquacious Earring
Moldavite Earring
Tamas Ring
Flame Ring (no other INT rings right now)
Errant Pants
No boots.


Yeah, it's pretty much a dire need of not using this job.

As for your other statement:

Another thing to look at is your approach to obtaining some items. Some of the items you said were out of reach are maybe 150-200k items...which should be far from impossible.

I've never -actually- been good at making gil. I've made only minor amounts from KSNM's back when they were worth something, and that's how I got most of my red mage spells and equipment, other minor items were gifts from friends who quit (Flame ring, for example.)

200k at this point is alot of gil in this economy, and I know that crafting will be mentioned, but I have to have gil just to do that, and farming isn't a strong point with bad luck -.-.

Awaiting a response..

[Ksandra]

Thanks for the list, it was a huge help to see just what I needed, and apparently, it was too much for my gimpness to obtain.

What he listed is mostly your overall goal. While you should try and get that stuff overtime there are plenty of alternatives until you can afford them without being "gimp".


Cheapy rdm:
weapon: nq staves. You definitaly can play with nq and bit by bit work on getting the hq bit by bit.

strap: anything that has mp or int or mind on it. Pick whichever is cheapest.

ammo: phantom talthum

head: af1/af2 hat. Seriously, because of fast cast that's all your really need until you get anything else higher end. Wise hat is shit imo, but lots of rdm argue on that one. I wore af1 hat full time till I got a chapeau which took forever and there's nothing wrong with it.

neck: Spider torque is good if you can't afford enfeebling (don't bother fighting the nm though.....drop rate sucks...) If you can't get either I would probably get an enlightened chain or just wear a beak necklace fulltime (beak necklace btw is nice for resting/convert)

body: errant/af1 body. Back when I first had a 75 rdm that's all I ever wore. Af1 body for enfeebles, errant body for everything else. All the other bodies are just a build up from those two basics.

hands: if you are hume see how much rse2 hands are. If not just get some errant cuffs, until you can get yigit hands. (other hands listed above have very good uses but yigit is probably best all-around piece, and free!)

legs: errant legs/jet serweels, these two are practically the same. If you wear errant legs the only thing you lose out on is -1 enm and 15 mp. It's not that significant a difference. I found that many people wear jet based on being so sick and tired of looking at the fugugly legs of errant (myself included), but that doesn't make errant less useful. They're just ugly.

feet: depends again on your race. If you are mithra then the rse2 feet are really nice, if not then there are a few choices. Wise feet are actually good because of the int on them. Errant feet are their counter part and have mnd on them. If you want you can macro them in as needed, or decide whichever stat your lacking in the most.

earrings: antivenom is a nice one for mp, you can get mnd or inter earrings whichever you can afford. If you do limbus then work on getting loquacious earring.

rings: wear the 72 int and mnd rings (macro as needed) until you can afford the 74/mp rings. (on our server astrals are cheap as fuck now so if they are on yours you can macro them in for convert)



Again this isn't something you want to keep, but it's cheap and functional and overtime you can get the gear listed above.

[edit] jeebus a lot of people posted while I was typing that -.-;

[Isiolia]

I've never -actually- been good at making gil. I've made only minor amounts from KSNM's back when they were worth something, and that's how I got most of my red mage spells and equipment, other minor items were gifts from friends who quit (Flame ring, for example.)

200k at this point is alot of gil in this economy, and I know that crafting will be mentioned, but I have to have gil just to do that, and farming isn't a strong point with bad luck -.-.

Awaiting a response..

Farming is possible, there are well known spots for 20-25k/hr. Personally I tend to average 50k/hr dual box farming with TH4...200k isn't complete chump change, no, but it's far from unachievable as well.
If nothing else, merit and use some of your IS for Imperial Gold Coins. Between that and NPCing drops, you can potentially make 30k+ just from a decent merit party.

Don't sell your capacity for making money short, and don't overlook things just because they're not bringing in 100k per sale either.

Crafting only tends to work as a great money maker if you're very market savvy. If you're not, simply having the skill won't help you a whole lot.

As I mentioned, my Red Mage is simply utter trash. So the responses should be expected.

No convert set.

No idle set.

Eh, what people have for "trash" can vary.

For Convert and Idle, just look first at what you have in your inventory and macro it in.

Convert, obviously, boost MP and balance with HP. Common or cheap items, like a Walahra Turban or Fourth Mace are good additions. You can also utilize some pieces for more than one thing, IE, some RSE2 pieces are also good Convert pieces, but also have INT or MND on them.

Idle is just basically putting in Auto-Refresh if you have it, Crimson Cuisses (only +movement really), and -damage. Start getting used to swapping things in, even if it's just your Earth staff and a Jelly ring or something.

Enfeebling Accuracy and potency:

Paralyze:

Ice Staff,
Bugard Strap+1
AF Body
AF Hat
Red Cape+1
Justice Badge
Hierarch Belt (No others.)
Loquacious Earring
Tamas Ring
Errant Pants
Sapphire Ring
Errant Feet
+4 to Ice Accuracy in merits.

Slow and Others: General Idea, just change staff to corresponding elements, save water and fire staves, which I lack. So in short, No real Enfeebling Potency/Accuracy set. Just riding on capped enfeeb for now.

That's not terrible. I mean, it's not great, but there are certainly far worse setups out there, just look in the gimp thread.

Do you have capped Enfeebling merits too, or are you simply referring to using as much accuracy as you can?

For a potency set, I would start by trying your Errant body in on Paralyze and Slow. With a staff in, if you have capped merits n' such, it should be viable on a lot of smaller group type endgame activities. If not, just change your macro back to AF.
You'll want to experiment with potency swaps either way, since there are a number of variables that people may not be able to relay to you.

You don't mention hands, though I got the impression that you have NQ Devotee's? Certainly fine to use.

What I would suggest thought is to try and get some Yigit hands. They've very nice all-around gloves for RDM. There are some easily trio'able Assaults in the Mamool Staging Point to spam for points to get them. Double Agent is typically very short and easy, if you can find a couple friends to help you farm it.
Not so much for Paralyze, but you do mention you have no nuking gloves, and really the INT and slight MAB on Yigit put them very close to Zenith for RDM nuking too.

I would definitely try for a torque, maybe try to do a BCNM to try for the drop, or other torque drops.

Waist would be similar. A Royal Knight's belt or Al Zhabi Sash would be affordable and at least give -some- MND, but Penitent's Rope drops at a good percentage from a 3 person BC60. Should be possible to try.


Your nuking set is much the same. You could go for Yigit feet, which are decent for RDM, though there are other good/better options. Torque, again, is desirable. An INT ring wouldn't hurt.

Red Cape +1 isn't terrible, probably a good choice if you will be leveling another mage job or doing capped stuff. Rainbow cape is actually cheaper though, so you could make money swapping to that.

There are other sets you might want to look at too, depending. If you have Phalanx II especially, an Enhancing set... it might only consist of AF pants and a Torque, but simply bothering to carry/macro even a few pieces like that is key. At the very least you get in the habit of macroing what gear you have to optimize actions. Then you just upgrade what's in the sets over time. Don't let only having modest gear stop you from doing that.

[Remainder]

Do you have capped Enfeebling merits too, or are you simply referring to using as much accuracy as you can?

At this point, my Red Mage only has 4 merits in Ice Accuracy specifically.

I've devoted much more time to my other jobs (that -I- consider my mains). Only reason I'm even considering this nightmare of a task is because people need my RDM in events, even if it sucks, so I may as well make it useful -.-;

Penitent's Rope drops at a good percentage from a 3 person BC60. Should be possible to try.

Wild Wild Whiskers? Never done that BCNM before, I tend to shy away from em after the great 400 seal waste on Up In Arms, and having 2 friends get full money drops from Royal Jelly, and me getting nothing.

I only have RDM, BLU,SMN, and DNC for WWW, and it says a WHM, NIN, and damage dealer is needed. Unless BLU can do the job alright, I'd be out. (all the video's I've seen contain an extremely pimped WAR or DRG while NIN tanked it, and WHM sat clipping toenails, save for stona.)

I would definitely try for a torque, maybe try to do a BCNM to try for the drop, or other torque drops

Again, /shudder, BCNM's... Is the drop rate good at least?


Other than that, to mention lightly, I have 5 merit points sitting in grasp right now, the update adding more Tier 2 points ruined my plot for BLU, so I may end up wasting <maximum points> for assimilation before even touching RDM's list.

What should I get though, Para II is popular, but I remain unsure...

[Isiolia]

Again, /shudder, BCNM's... Is the drop rate good at least?

Torques of some kind are basically a given, but you can get any of them if I recall, or at least a wide selection. It's kind of like getting the level 50 JSE rings. You'd have a chance at Elemental/Dark/etc torques too though, or might get a Ninjitsu to sell, etc.

What should I get though, Para II is popular, but I remain unsure...

Slow II is very nearly a given. Past that it's very much up to the individual as to what they'd find useful. Some people go for a lot of ParaII and swear by it. Others (like myself) haven't been impressed with lower level Para II, so are not inclined to go farther.
I have 5 Phalanx II, 3 Slow II, 2 Para II atm.
Been a common discussion here and other places though.

[XanthePandy]

This is really pretty basic and I have no idea if it would work for you but here it goes: Arrows represent how you can improve once you've obtained the basic stuff, its all situational of course, and most of this depends on your current set-up as well. So use your head when figuring out what to buy.

Convert
Main: Light Staff --> Fourth Mace
Sub: Staff Strap --> Legion Scutum
Ammo: Anything
Head: AF1
Neck: Beak Necklace (+1)
Ear1: Insomnia
Ear2: Antivenom
Body: AF1 --> Blue Cotehardie
Hands: Hume RSE2 (If you're a hume, haven't looked into other races)
Ring1: Ether --> Serket
Ring2: Astral --> Vivian's
Back: Anything --> Intensifying Cape
Waist: Hierach Belt
Legs: Prince's Slops
Feet: Errant --> Mahatma

Skill Enfeebles:
Main: Appropriate Staff
Sub: Bugard Strap +1
Ammo: Phantom Tathlum
Head: Wise Cap (+1)
Neck: Spider --> Enfeebling Torque
Ear1: Anything
Ear2: Anything
Body: AF1
Hands: Anything with INT or MND depending on your spell
Ring1: Snow/Aqua
Ring2: Tamas or Snow/Aqua
Back: Prism Cape --> Altruistic Cape
Waist: Penitent's Rope (BCNM it: very easy to do)
Legs: Errant --> Jet Seraweels --> Mahatma --> Nashira
Feet: Avocat's Pigaches

These are 2 sets for my lolRDMplans but I'm sure someone can go into more depth as to what you could improve on. If you have trouble with gil you can lean more to doing assaults for Yigit or sticking to NQ errant but its not difficult to make 300kish for some pieces that might greatly improve your performance unless you have severely short playtime to work with.

Good luck.

[tsola]

First thing I would do for your RDM is to merit. You gain so much from merits it's crazy:

1)Potentially up to +16Enfeebling Magic Skill.(Skill like Af1 body/af2 hat that doesn't take a gear slot!)
2)Potentially up to +16Elemental Magic Skill. (Useful for nuking obviously, I'd do it last though)
3)Convert recast reduced to 8:20 instead of 10minutes. (This is so helpful!)
4)Ice/Wind Accuracy Merits for your enfeebling spells.
5)New spells! Slow 2 and Phalanx 2 are incredible.
6) +80 HP/MP (or a mix of both)

Merit as much as you can as save your IS for ISNM. It takes like 45minutes max, including gather time. And you can go once a day. Between the 12k gil drop and vendoring the random stuff you get, with the hopefully occasional Khroma, you will slowly be able to upgrade your gear.

Get HQ staves first (ice, dark, wind, earth). I'd also get a Vermillion Cloak, a refresh piece is incredibly helpful. Then you can work on slowly HQing the rest of your gear like errant-->mahatma etc. Yigit is also nice, and assaults are easy.

This is what I would do anyway, if I wanted to slowly pimp out my RDM.

[Keria]

The above are the items that are outside of my grasp, and will be for years due to gil/line (LS points)/lack of salvage/competent nyzul/einherjar team constraints.

If you're going to stop being gimp, you'll have to start wanting not to be. This means stopping complaining about how you're poor and making an effort to make money. This is probably the best advice I can offer you. You may not claim Jaded Jody against a team of RMT but you can quite easily make 400k for mahatma pants, which are better than jet seraweels, in a few days with determination. FFXIAH.com is your friend in this regard. Find out what sells frequently, find out if you can kill the mob which drops it enough to be worth your time.

Buy or camp a spider torque at the very least, and HQ dark, ice, wind, and earth staves in whatever order is easiest for you. Also a rainbow cape, a penitent's rope, and misc convert gear. Goliard is free and can usually be obtained via /shout Nyzul groups in whitegate, I see 2 or 3 JP shouts every time I'm in whitegate and since many are after askar gear, a little magey effort can get you a long way.

Other low-investment ways to make money are BCNMs- ask people in your LS which ones they have succeeded at, people like to do familiar things so if you say Under Observation or Royal Jelly people will probably jump. ISNM- only 3k IS, or a standard merit session, with decent gil rewards. ODS KS30 is also ridiculously easy with 6 people in a /shout group, rewards are meh but with 6 wins you will at least make 27k from NPCing the r/ex weapon and 4k gil from each Armoury Crate.

The biggest thing though is to stop crying about how gimp you are and how no one will help you, and start making an effort to improve, whether it be just making macros to utilize the cheap gear you have or MAKING groups to get the stuff you want. Assault is easy, Nyzul is easy, Limbus NQ runs are easy. Everyone fails the first few times they try something new, it's when you have experience that you gain confidence to do more.

Don't say the stuff people have listed is impossible to get. You work on it piece by piece and gradually go from gimp to outstanding. All it takes is effort and patience. There is no secret to tell you about becoming a good player, it's just time and hard work.

[Remainder]

If you're going to stop being gimp, you'll have to start wanting not to be. This means stopping complaining about how you're poor and making an effort to make money. This is probably the best advice I can offer you. You may not claim Jaded Jody against a team of RMT but you can quite easily make 400k for mahatma pants, which are better than jet seraweels, in a few days with determination. FFXIAH.com is your friend in this regard. Find out what sells frequently, find out if you can kill the mob which drops it enough to be worth your time.

Buy or camp a spider torque at the very least, and HQ dark, ice, wind, and earth staves in whatever order is easiest for you. Also a rainbow cape, a penitent's rope, and misc convert gear. Goliard is free and can usually be obtained via /shout Nyzul groups in whitegate, I see 2 or 3 JP shouts every time I'm in whitegate and since many are after askar gear, a little magey effort can get you a long way.

Other low-investment ways to make money are BCNMs- ask people in your LS which ones they have succeeded at, people like to do familiar things so if you say Under Observation or Royal Jelly people will probably jump. ISNM- only 3k IS, or a standard merit session, with decent gil rewards. ODS KS30 is also ridiculously easy with 6 people in a /shout group, rewards are meh but with 6 wins you will at least make 27k from NPCing the r/ex weapon and 4k gil from each Armoury Crate.

The biggest thing though is to stop crying about how gimp you are and how no one will help you, and start making an effort to improve, whether it be just making macros to utilize the cheap gear you have or MAKING groups to get the stuff you want. Assault is easy, Nyzul is easy, Limbus NQ runs are easy. Everyone fails the first few times they try something new, it's when you have experience that you gain confidence to do more.

Don't say the stuff people have listed is impossible to get. You work on it piece by piece and gradually go from gimp to outstanding. All it takes is effort and patience. There is no secret to tell you about becoming a good player, it's just time and hard work.

Shouts for Nyzul? I haven't seen -any- on my server, save when they first came out, unless they are part of the 100% Japanese shouts that go around that (obviously) are excluding non-Japanese players from joining.

And various people said:

No excuse for you not to be able to make <XYZ,000g> in a moderately quick amount of time.

After calculating current prices, it will take....

4852500 for All HQ staves minus Fire and Light, and 2 Snow Rings, Prism Cape, mahatma slops, enfeebling torque, and pern rope, and that's just the tip of the iceberg.

Curse you FFXIAH.

Regardless, are you sure you aren't saying that in terms of being a crafter / having obscene levels of luck with drops / having THF leveled to 75 with TH+ AF2 and knife?

I'm honestly horrified at the prospect of what -exactly- I'd have to farm to get that much, outside of BCNM's and KSNM's, since the only reliable drop rate I seem to get is colibri feathers...

Only 31,106 feathers to my goal completion. Time to get to work.

[Keria]

My highest craft is 40 cooking, my THF is level 15, obscene luck, yarite I wish.

We are talking months and years of progression not something you can magically do overnight.

You can get that gear in 6 months if you work for it, and it would be faster if you already had the items like spider torque that you should ideally have purchased on the way to 75.

I make my money for gear upgrades from BCNMs, KSNMs, NM killing and ENMs, and it's slow but steady, (hi2u 2/40 hedgehog bomb, 0/9987352 cloud evoker) although getting BST to 75 helped in seal collection. However there is no excuse, at 75, for not being able to make 100k in an evening (OK, if there's competition, a long evening) if you put your mind to it. And that means YOUR mind, not ours, because when it comes to gil making YOU need to take the initiative and be flexible. We can give you a list of what you can buy but it's up to you to make the money. You think everyone on this forum started the game with capped crafts and 100 million gil? It's up to you to find a steady income that works FOR YOU. Not everyone can stomach farming attercops for 6 hours a night, but not everyone wants to solo Faust/Despot for money. There are so many different ways to earn gil no one can just list them in a post.

Oh here's a hint: if you see a shout in Japanese involving the numbers 20, 40, 60, 80 or 100 it's a nyzul boss run shout and you can probably get a shot by /telling the shouter {Red Mage} (Do you need it} {Goliard Clogs} (or whatever) {I'm interested.} If you get in, yay, if not, you lose nothing by asking. It would be advisable to read up on Nyzul strategy if you do this though.

Colibri feathers NPC for 1872 gil a stack by the way!

[Zosi]

We are talking months and years of progression not something you can magically do overnight.

This deserves repeating. It took me years to get my RDM's gear to the point it is now, and it wasn't easy. However, I did it a few pieces at a time, and that's the way to do it. Start with the stuff that has the biggest stat gain for the $$$, stuff like torques and HQ staves in order of how often you use them. Once you're set on the important stuff, if you feel the need, you can move on to the "350k for 1 INT/MND" stuff.

[Skjie]

For P rope, a RDM does fine as the DD. As an Elvaan RDM/BLM I was can't remember ever losing with NIN and WHM, and that's with astral rings and AF1 for gear.

[Eldelphia]

Dune Widow (for the spider torque) is easy to camp. Take /BST and be prepared to be out there a lil while. I went 1/3. Use this until you can afford to upgrade.

Insomnia and antivenom earrings are 5k assault points each or bought from the AH. Yigit is a good set to work on and easy to get if you form an assault static.

Both tathlums can be farmed up.

AF hat is fine, errant body is stupidly cheap as are errant slops. Devotees and errant hands depending on what you're doing?

The Wild Wild Whiskers BCNM is fine with a competant NIN and WHM duo. Really is hard to mess it up once you get things into a cycle.

What do you do with your time in game?

Basically, you either farm/craft and make gil or you BCNM/Assault/Nyzul/Salvage etc. There are no short cuts. Dynamis is nice if you can do that, RDM relic seems useful.

I'm reading this with interest because I'm levelling RDM & SCH having levelled WHM and BLM first. I have a lot of gear already but that took me a lot of time to assemble.

Could you farm the items for ugly pendant pops and pop him with another couple of mages? It's usually good money to sell that.

I hate making money in this game but when I need to, I can.

[Hellfury]

Feel free to add more stuff if I forget something. Gonna leave out melee and enmity gear since I think they should take a backseat to support-RDM gear if you're gimped out.



-Prism Cape, Aslan Cape, Ixion Cape, Intensifying Cape (convert)

Unless I missed something, Ixion cape can't be used by RDM
Also, Duelist belt > Hierarch belt for hMP

I noted the comment about "Dynamis gear" being noted as impossible for the OP, but I strongly urge that if you intend to play RDM, you reconsider that stance. Also, prioritize getting a good MND setup before bothering with INT!
*hides from the ensuing flamewar*

[pugnax179]

That's quite a list.


Prism Cape, Aslan Cape, Ixion Cape, Intensifying Cape (all near impossible, currently with Red Cape +1

How i wish RDM could use an Ixion Cape but nooope, big ole screw you from SE