Red Mage

Recommended races: Tarutaru, Hume and Mithra

Where most jobs in FF XI specialize in doing one thing, the Red Mage is a generalist who learns to do a bit of everything. Want to cast both healing and damaging spells? Want to do so in armor and using a sword? If so, the Red Mage is for you.

The Red Mage is a fighter / mage, able to use both swords and spells. The Red Mage gets some of the healing magic of a White Mage, some of the destruction magic of a Black Mage and a little bit of their own magic thrown in as well. This being said, the Red Mage learns most of their spells at higher levels (i.e. later) than White / Black Mages learn theirs.

Red Mages are good (but not great) in melee combat - their combat skills are roughly equal to those of a thief. Red Mages are not as good at mitigating damage as a Warrior or a Monk.

Red Mages have strong defensive skills: they get both Shield (allowing them to block attacks with their shield) and Parry (allowing them to parry attacks with their weapon).

Red Mages can solo fairly well. This is due to their good armor selection, good weapon selection and offensive / defensive spells. There can be times, however, when Red Mages have trouble finding a party - many parties want a specialist as opposed to a generalist.

Red Mages can wear most armor (as opposed to Black and White Mages that have a more limited armor selection). They also have access to a wider variety of weapons than the Black and White Mage. This can make Red Mages more expensive to play, as they are constantly upgrading their spells, their armor and their weapons.

Red Mages get all types of magic, as they draw from the spell lists of both Black and White mages (and a few of their own unique spells as well). Note that all mages need to learn a spell before they can cast it. Learning a spell involves buying the spell scrolls (similar to how warriors must buy weapons) and then learning (using) it to put it into their spell book.

	Red Mage Starting Ability Scores
		Hume	Elvaan	Tarutaru	Galka	Mithra
	HP	28	30	24	33	28
	MP	18	16	24	12	18
	STR	6	7	5	7	6
	DEX	6	6	6	6	8
	VIT	6	7	6	8	6
	AGI	6	5	7	6	7
	INT	7	6	9	7	7
	MND	7	8	7	7	7
	CHR	6	6	6	5	5

Red Mages are a normal difficulty class to play through the low levels (you do not need much MMOG experience to play a warrior in FF XI).

Red Mage
Name	LV	Dur	RU	Target	Effect
Continual Magic	1		120	Self	Shortens the delay and keep casting magic
Job Traits
Resist Petrify	10			Self	Resist to Petrify
Fast Cast	15			Self	Sometimes shorten magic casting time
Magic Attack Up	20			Self	Increase magic attack
Magic Defense Up	25			Self	Increase magic defense
Magic Attack Up II	40			Self	Increase magic attack
Magic Defense UpⅡ?	45			Self	Increase magic defense
Resist Petrify	50			Self	Resist to petrify
					Dur = Duration; RU = Reuse Time (in minutes)

Red Mage combat skills: dagger, sword, club, staff, archery, marksmanship, throwing, evasion, shield, parry, divine magic, healing magic, enhancement magic, enfeebling magic, elemental magic, and dark magic.