Black Mage, Red Mage or Summoner, which one would you like to be? I give my personal take on the good and the bad of each of the mage jobs in FFXIV! I hope you will find it helpful!
In case you were inspired to play any of the three mages by this video, I have guides for both starters and high levels for each if you are interested!
Black Mage Starter: https://youtu.be/n3mZCumfeIE
Black Mage High Level: https://youtu.be/ZQuN5M9ifbU
Red Mage Starter: https://youtu.be/Wice_YX3WTk
Red Mage High Level: https://youtu.be/cDGgHDDttTk
Summoner Starter: https://youtu.be/ZzQQr-vg3DM
Summoner High Level: https://youtu.be/uY7euJGBZFo
Additionally, if you are interested in hearing about how Summoner used to play, this is the video for that: https://youtu.be/YYE4YpY2p3I
And finally, if words like GCD and oGCD confuse you, I have a guide on this subject too: https://youtu.be/4jZ9j7ti0Nw
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https://twitter.com/CaetsuChaijiCh
Music Used:
FFXIV: Shadowbringers – Neath Dark Waters
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Chapters:
00:00 Introduction
00:24 Ratings Glossary
00:35 Introducing Black Mage
01:29 BLM Damage Potential
01:46 BLM Mobility
02:15 BLM Utility
02:45 BLM Advanced Tricks Highlight
03:03 BLM Substat Priorities
04:06 Nald’Thal
04:30 Introducing Red Mage
05:36 RDM Advanced Tricks Highlight
06:13 RDM Damage Potential
06:35 RDM Utility
07:02 RDM Mobility
07:22 New Player Friendly level 50 Job
07:38 RDM Substat Priorities
08:21 Black and Red are opposites
08:44 Introducing Summoner
09:43 Summoner Similarity Overlaps
10:37 SMN Mobility
10:51 SMN Rotation Simplicity
11:33 SMN Utility
12:50 SMN Substat Priorities
13:36 SMN Caught in the middle
13:48 New Player Starter Summary
14:35 General Summary
15:25 Fun Fact
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As a new player that wanted to play black mage I feel that the worse part of leveling black mage is how boring it gets spamming fire 1. Then when you get better stuff like fire 4 it gets taken away whenever you level sync down. So more fire 1 spam.
Also getting interrupted due to the target dying, moving out of range, lost line of sight, getting hit, or because the game felt like it.
I love playing BLM. I'm not the best at it, even though I main it. But you truly know you have an encounter down if you can get through it as a BLM and not get hit. Btw, Thunder 2/4 is your best friend when going against dungeon mobs and your tank is pulling too fast for you to cast. Gets a DoT on all the trash the tank is pulling to wear it down as you catch up.
I really like the ratings glossary that was a nice touch 🙂
Blue mage: Amateurs.