What are some early skiils of RMG?

[Blitz15]

What are some of the early skills of red mage and what do they do to monsters or you? If red mage has good spells, then I may be a red mage. I am going to be a hume and is tring to figure out what job to be. I pretty much want to be a warrior who can heal and still deal some element damage like fire if i need to.

Thanks

[Drynavere]

In the first 20 or so levels, RDM can prove as a good healer, OR as a good nuker. A nuker is like a blackmage, nukes are spells like fire, lightning, blizzard....etc. After about 30 the RDM, depending on what you sub (WHM or BLM normally), can either, once again be a nuker or a healer.

Pre-20 (before lvl 20 or so) RDM do about average damage, maybe up to 30 it can be argued. But past 30, if a RDM starts attacking with his/her sword in a party, and lacks on the casting and healing and debuffing, he will probably get kicked outta the party.

The RDM is mainly a Debuff/support class to other melees and casters. If you want to be mostly a fighter, and have some good nuke damage with fire and stuff, go Dark Knight. They do arguably the best melee damage, and have some neat nukes here and there.

Judging by your description of what you said you want to be, I'd definately recommend DRK for you, I think it's a really fun class so. Good luck.

[Blitz15]

cool thanks

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[Xyphere]

at level 15 you get the "Fast Cast" passive ability

[Dtec]

At early Lv's RDM are mainly for backup healing. RDM do decent damage with swords and they can enfeeble the monster. At Lv 30-ish, your melee skill will diminish as you will miss alot against high evasion monsters, and when you do land a hit, it is usually for 5-15 damage. Your role is healing and debuffing. At Lv 41, your role changes to refresher, debuffer, and healing. However, RDM has many skills and can buff themselves better than any other job, so they can solo monsters that most other jobs cannot. For example, casting Stoneskin, Phalanx, Blink, En-spell, Bar-spell, Haste, Refresh, Protect, Shell... no other jobs can buff themselves like this.