Oh dear! ^^' Well, remember that you can always switch things up every now and then! Especially if Black Mage starts to get a little samey as you go! :D

So many things on the screen lol debating starting the game but my adhd has me looking everywhere 😂

Now that would be incredible if Black Mage got Dualcast! :D

@@CaetsuChaijiCh That would be so broken

I'm glad you found it helpful, Keziah! Red Mage really is a spectacle to watch! And the job is very flexible, which ultimately means that the better you get at it, the more clever you can get with how you play the job! :D

Well better late than never right?! 😁 I'm glad my guide helped you! 😄 Thank you!

Nice! I hope you find the guide helpful, and that you enjoy Red Mage! It is different from summoner, but also fun! 😄

It isn't always possible to play perfectly, and even in the hardest content, it isn't expected that you play perfectly. 😊 As you get better acquainted with a boss, you find ways to move in advance or plan your rotation so you happen to be casting instant attacks when you have to move anyway and things like that 😁 Ultimately, perfect rotation is more a thing to strive towards, but you are never expected to BE perfect! In fact, a large part about mastering a job is finding ways to adjust the rotation to the situation so the boss mechanics impact your rotation as little as possible 😊 I hope this helps! 😊

When people say red mage is easy, they typically mean the very basic principles are easy. The tricks to do more than the minimum can be a bit much though! The displacement concept is that you want to be able to use fleche and contre sixte as close to precisely the instant they become ready. But you only have time to weave these abilities for around 2 seconds after every second spell (or while casting otherwise instant spells, or the melee combo) If we focus on just fleche, it has a cooldown of 25 seconds. So after five sets of dual casts it should be ready right on time. But as the melee combo takes an unusual amount of time (12.5 ish seconds at max level) it will cause fleche to be ready during the first spell cast in your sets, instead of the instant follow up, meaning that if you ensured that the first spell was instant instead, you could use fleche sooner. This could be done either by using acceleration or swift cast earlier to plan ahead, or use it so the spell that overlaps with fleches cooldown itself is instant. Either one works. It sounds very complicated, but as you learn the job and get better this stuff should become more intuitive! In regards to aligning CD's in general, this is something all jobs do if you are referring to the two minute burst: simply put, you want embolden and manafication together. But their cooldowns are nearly the same so this happens somewhat naturally 😊 for other jobs, this is far more complicated! I hope this helps a bit, and if you have additional questions, do feel free to ask!

​@@CaetsuChaijiCh I played like 5 different classes without ever noticing the 2 minute burst was for every class. Thank you for explaining the displacement, I get it now :)... Though I can't even imagine noticing the 2s delay while playing. I guess you have to play the class for a long time to get like that.

The reason for the two minute burst is that all raid buffing cooldowns have the same 2 minute cooldown, so stacking them all together greatly amplifies the damage of the raid 😊 this means that even a job like samurai who has no temporary damage buffs is incentivized to use it's high damage attacks in that specific window for example 😁 And yes keeping close track of specific cooldowns whilst doing your rotation is something that comes with experience with the job and the game as a whole 😊

That's complicated 😊 Embolden doesn't boost fleche or contre sixte because they are physical attacks. And delaying fleche a single gcd loses you more damage than Embolden would have granted if it did work 😊 As such, the motivation to hold fleche for raid buffs depends on how well your group coordinates raid buffs 😁 if your group does coordinate raid buffs, then delaying fleche one or two gcds to land it in them may be beneficial, but ultimately what matters most in most situations is using it on cooldown, as delaying fleche by just one gcd effectively loses you 10% of a fleche on average due to the cooldown, and possibly more due to how red mages dual cast impacts it! 😅

@@CaetsuChaijiCh Yeah, I implied that in a way lol. Very true, quite dependent on others favorable raid buffs. "delaying fleche by just one gcd effectively loses you 10% of a fleche on average due to the cooldown" is it actually that much??! I did not know that detail. That's an interesting stat. tyvm

You can use both as seen in the level 90 opener, but often you don't need to use both at the same time 😊