Red Mage was added at the start of the Stormblood expansion and begins at level 50. The job also has no corresponding class so all abilities earned are on the job itself. In order to become a Red Mage you must complete the following quest.

Quest	NPC	Location	Conditions
The Way of the Samurai	Ul'dahn Citizen	Ul'dah - Steps of Nald (X:9 Y:9)	None

For each quest you complete, you will be rewarded with a new ability, while the latter quests will also reward you with artifact (AF) armour that is shown in the screenshot above.

Introduction to Red Mage

The Red Mage is a classic magic damage dealing job that makes use of both black and white magic. Primarily an attacker, they also have the ability to heal when necessary.

Attributes

As a Red Mage your main attribute is Intelligence (INT) as this increases magical damage. You should be focusing on equipment with this stat. For secondary stats you should be focusing on the likes of Spell Speed, Direct Hit Rate, Determination and Critical Hit Rate in addition to simply boosting INT.

Spell Speed and Critical Hit Rate are self explantory in what they do. For the other two, Determination is used to boost the damage dealt by all attacks and the amount of HP recovered when healed while Direct Hit Rate is Stormblood's replacement for Accuracy. Instead of a simple hit or miss effect that Accuracy could give, having low Direct Hit Rate for a fight will reduce damage dealt so it is important to improve this stat.

Actions

Actions are skills that the Red Mage can equip to their bar and select to use at any time as long as their timer is available. Actions used in a combo will generate additional damage and effects. All Red Mage actions are exclusive to that job.


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	Name	Level	Cast	Recast	MP	TP	Range	Radius
	Riposte	1	0	2.5	0	0	0y	0y
	Delivers an attack with a potency of 130. Action upgraded to Enchanted Riposte if both Black Mana and White Mana are at 30 or more.
	Enchanted Riposte	1	0	1.5	0	0	0y	0y
	Deals unaspected damage with a potency of 210. Balance Gauge Cost: 30 Black Mana Balance Gauge Cost: 30 White Mana ※This action cannot be assigned to a hotbar.
	Jolt	2	2	2.5	0	0	25y	0y
	Deals unaspected damage with a potency of 180. Additional Effect: Increases both Black Mana and White Mana by 3
	Verthunder	4	5	2.5	0	0	25y	0y
	Deals lightning damage with a potency of 370 . Additional Effect: Increases Black Mana by 11 Additional Effect: 50% chance of becoming Verfire Ready Duration: 30s
	Corps-a-corps	6	0	40	0	0	25y	0y
	Rushes target and delivers an attack with a potency of 130. Cannot be executed while bound.
	Veraero	10	5	2.5	0	0	25y	0y
	Deals wind damage with a potency of 370 . Additional Effect: Increases White Mana by 11 Additional Effect: 50% chance of becoming Verstone Ready Duration: 30s
	Tether	15	2.5	2.5	0	0	30y	5y
	Binds target and all nearby enemies. F201F8F201F9Duration:0101 20s Cancels auto-attack upon execution.
	Scatter	15	5	2.5	0	0	25y	5y
	Deals unaspected damage with a potency of 120 to target and all enemies nearby it. Additional Effect: Increases both Black Mana and White Mana by 3
	Verthunder II	18	2	2.5	0	0	25y	5y
	Deals lightning damage with a potency of 120 to target and all enemies nearby it. Additional Effect: Increases Black Mana by 7
	Veraero II	22	2	2.5	0	0	25y	5y
	Deals wind damage with a potency of 120 to target and all enemies nearby it. Additional Effect: Increases White Mana by 7
	Verfire	26	2	2.5	0	0	25y	0y
	Deals fire damage with a potency of 310 . Additional Effect: Increases Black Mana by 9 Can only be executed while Verfire Ready is active.
	Verstone	30	2	2.5	0	0	25y	0y
	Deals earth damage with a potency of 310 . Additional Effect: Increases White Mana by 9 Can only be executed while Verstone Ready is active.
	Zwerchhau	35	0	2.5	0	0	0y	0y
	Delivers an attack with a potency of 100. Combo Action: Riposte or Enchanted Riposte Combo Potency: 150 Action upgraded to Enchanted Zwerchhau if both Black Mana and White Mana are at 25 or more.
	Enchanted Zwerchhau	35	0	1.5	0	0	0y	0y
	Deals unaspected damage with a potency of 100. Combo Action: Riposte or Enchanted Riposte Combo Potency: 290 Balance Gauge Cost: 25 Black Mana Balance Gauge Cost: 25 White Mana ※This action cannot be assigned to a hotbar.
	Displacement	40	0	35	0	0	5y	0y
	Delivers an attack with a potency of 200 . Additional Effect: 15-yalm backstep Cannot be executed while bound. Shares a recast timer with Engagement.
	Fleche	45	0	25	0	0	25y	0y
	Delivers an attack with a potency of 440.
	Redoublement	50	0	2.5	0	0	0y	0y
	Delivers an attack with a potency of 100. Combo Action: Zwerchhau or Enchanted Zwerchhau Combo Potency: 230 Action upgraded to Enchanted Redoublement if both Black Mana and White Mana are at 25 or more.
	Acceleration	50	0	55	0	0	0y	0y
	Ensures the next three casts of Verthunder/Verflare or Veraero/Verholy will, for their first hits, trigger Verfire Ready or Verstone Ready respectively. Duration: 20s
	Enchanted Redoublement	50	0	2.2	0	0	0y	0y
	Deals unaspected damage with a potency of 100. Combo Action: Enchanted Zwerchhau Combo Potency: 470 Balance Gauge Cost: 25 Black Mana Balance Gauge Cost: 25 White Mana ※This action cannot be assigned to a hotbar.
	Moulinet	52	0	2.5	0	0	8y	8y
	Delivers an attack with a potency of 60 to all enemies in a cone before you. Action upgraded to Enchanted Moulinet if both Black Mana and White Mana are at 20 or more.
	Enchanted Moulinet	52	0	1.5	0	0	6y	6y
	Deals unaspected damage with a potency of 200 to all enemies in a cone before you. Balance Gauge Cost: 30 Black Mana Balance Gauge Cost: 30 White Mana ※This action cannot be assigned to a hotbar.
	Vercure	54	2	2.5	0	0	30y	0y
	Restores target's HP. Cure Potency: 350
	Contre Sixte	56	0	45	0	0	25y	6y
	Delivers an attack with a potency of 400 to target and all enemies nearby it.
	Embolden	58	0	120	0	0	0y	15y
	Increases own magic damage dealt by 10% and physical damage dealt by nearby party members by 10%. Both effects are reduced by 20% every 4s. Duration: 20s
	Manafication	60	0	120	0	0	0y	0y
	Doubles current Black Mana and White Mana levels. Additional Effect: Resets Corps-a-corps, Displacement, and Engagement recast timers Additional Effect: Increases magic damage dealt by 5% Duration: 10s All combos are canceled upon execution of Manafication.
	Jolt II	62	2	2.5	0	0	25y	0y
	Deals unaspected damage with a potency of 290. Additional Effect: Increases both Black Mana and White Mana by 3
	Verraise	64	10	2.5	0	0	30y	0y
	Resurrects target to a weakened state.
	Impact	66	5	2.5	0	0	25y	5y
	Deals unaspected damage with a potency of 220 to target and all enemies nearby it. Additional Effect: Increases both Black Mana and White Mana by 3
	Verflare	68	0	2.5	0	0	25y	0y
	Deals fire damage with a potency of 600. F201F8F201F9Additional Effect:0101 Increases F201FAF201FBBlack Mana0101 by 21 F201F8F201F9Additional Effect:0101 20% chance of becoming F201FAF201FBVerfire Ready0101 F201F8F201F9Duration:0101 30s Chance to become F201FAF201FBVerfire Ready0101 increases to 100% if F201FAF201FBWhite Mana0101 is higher than F201FAF201FBBlack Mana0101 at time of execution. Can only be executed after successively landing an F201F4F201F5Enchanted Riposte0101 combo action.
	Verholy	70	0	2.5	0	0	25y	0y
	Deals unaspected damage with a potency of 600. F201F8F201F9Additional Effect:0101 Increases F201FAF201FBWhite Mana0101 by 21 F201F8F201F9Additional Effect:0101 20% chance of becoming F201FAF201FBVerstone Ready0101 F201F8F201F9Duration:0101 30s Chance to become F201FAF201FBVerstone Ready0101 increases to 100% if F201FAF201FBBlack Mana0101 is higher than F201FAF201FBWhite Mana0101 at time of execution. Can only be executed after successively landing an F201F4F201F5Enchanted Riposte0101 combo action.
	Engagement	72	0	35	0	0	0y	0y
	Delivers an attack with a potency of 150. Shares a recast timer with Displacement.
	Reprise	76	0	2.5	0	0	0y	0y
	Delivers an attack with a potency of 100. Action upgraded to Enchanted Reprise if both Black Mana and White Mana are at 5 or more.

Traits

Traits are not actions and can not be equipped to your bar. They are earned as you level up and are always active. As a result they require 0 cast time and have a 0 MP and TP cost. They are also all exclusive to the Red Mage job.

	Name	Level
	Dualcast	1
	Grants the effect of Dualcast upon casting any spell with a cast time. While under the effect of Dualcast, your next spell will require no time to cast. Effect is canceled upon execution of any action other than an ability. Auto-attacks do not cancel effect.
	Dualcast	1
	Grants the effect of Dualcast upon casting any spell with a cast time. While under the effect of Dualcast, your next spell will require no time to cast. Effect is canceled upon execution of any action other than an ability. Auto-attacks do not cancel effect.
	Enhanced Intelligence	20
	Increases intelligence by 8.
	Maim and Mend	20
	Increases base action damage and HP restoration by 10%.
	Enhanced Intelligence II	40
	Increases intelligence by 16.
	Maim and Mend II	40
	Increases base action damage and HP restoration by 30%.
	Enhanced Intelligence III	60
	Increases intelligence by 24.
	Enhanced Jolt	62
	Upgrades Jolt to Jolt II. Also increases the potency of Verthunder and Veraero to 370, and the potency of Verfire and Verstone to 300.
	Enhanced Jolt II	66
	Grants the effect of F201FAF201FBImpactful0101 upon landing of F201F4F201F5Jolt II0101.
	Scatter Mastery	66
	Upgrades Scatter to Impact.
	Enhanced Displacement	72
	Increases Displacement potency to 200.
	Enhanced Manafication	74
	Reduces Manafication recast timer to 110 seconds and adds an additional effect that increases magic damage dealt by 5%.
	Enhanced Contre Sixte	78
	Reduces Contre Sixte recast timer to 35 seconds and increases potency of both Verthunder II and Veraero II to 120.

Role Actions

Since the Stormblood expansion for FFXIV, cross class actions were removed and replaced with the concept of "role" actions. Role actions are more generic as they don't belong to specific classes, but instead to roles such as melee DPS, magic DPS, healer or tank. The Red Mage can equip up to 5 of these.

Name

Level

Cast

Recast

MP

TP

Range

Radius

PvP Actions

From the Stormblood expansion PvP was revamped significantly and you can no longer use PvE actions during PvP battles. That means all of the actions above you can no longer use in PvP. Action Points (AP) were also removed. While some of the dedicated PvP actions do have the same name, they will have different potencies or effects. Below are the PvP actions that are unique to the Red Mage. There exists even more PvP actions and even traits but these are not unique to the Red Mage. You can find these further down the page.

	Name	Cast	Recast	MP	TP	Range	Radius
	Flunge	0	1.5	0	0	8y	8y
	Delivers an attack to all enemies in a cone before you with a potency of 1,000 for the first enemy, 25% less for the second, 50% less for the third, and 75% less for all remaining enemies. Additional Effect: Heavy +50% Duration: 3s

Shared PvP Actions

The following is a list of PvP actions which are shared across all classes and jobs. These can only be used in PvP areas and you are limited to selecting two of them.

	Name	Cast	Recast	MP	TP	Range	Radius
	Aetheric Siphon	0	6	0	0	25y	0y
	Activates the instrument.
	Anti-gravity Gimbal	0	5	0	0	0y	0y
	Simulates the spell Levitate using Nero tol Scaeva's odd contraption.
	Bolt	0	45	0	0	0y	0y
	Movement speed is increased. Duration: 10s
	Chimatsuri	4.5	45	0	0	8y	0y
	Concentrate	0	45	0	0	0y	0y
	Creates a barrier preventing Stun, Sleep, Bind, Heavy, Slow, Silence, and knockback effects. Duration: 10s
	Deflect	0	2	0	0	0y	4y
	Scatters potentially harmful aether.
	Doom Of The Living	4.5	45	0	0	8y	0y
	Dragonsong Dive	4.5	45	0	0	8y	0y
	Enliven	0	90	0	0	0y	0y
	Restores 50% of maximum TP.
	Final Heaven	4.5	45	0	0	8y	0y
	Delivers an attack with a potency of 9,000.
	Muse	0	90	0	0	0y	0y
	Restores 25% of maximum MP.
	Purify	0	45	0	0	0y	0y
	Removes Stun, Sleep, Bind, Heavy, Slow, and Silence from target. Can be used regardless of own status affliction.
	Recuperate	0	45	0	0	0y	0y
	Restores 25% of maximum HP.
	Safeguard	0	90	0	0	0y	0y
	Reduces damage taken by 25%. Duration: 10s
	Smoke Screen	0	2.5	0	0	0y	20y
	Throw an incendiary device that creates a blanket of smoke temporarily granting you the Stealth status.
	Ungarmax	3	30	0	0	14y	20y
	Vril	0	3	0	0	0y	0y
	Use the aetheric residue lingering on your body to temporarily disguise yourself as one of Lakshmi's loyal dreamers.

Shared PvP Traits

The following is a list of PvP traits which are shared across all classes and jobs. These can only be used in PvP areas and you are limited to selecting three of them.

	Name	Description
	Decreased Damage Taken	Decreases damage taken by 3%.
	Decreased Recast Time	Decreases recast time of additional actions by 20%.
	Increased Action Speed	Decreases weaponskill and spell cast and recast times by 3%.
	Increased Damage Dealt	Increases damage dealt by 3%.
	Increased Healing Potency	Increases spell-based HP restoration by 5%.
	Increased HP	Increases maximum HP by 5%.
	Increased MP Regeneration	Increases MP regeneration rate by 25%.
	Increased Resistance Duration	Increases duration of resistances by 50%.
	Increased TP Regeneration	Increases TP regeneration rate by 40%.

Red Mage Equipment

The best equipment for your Red Mage constantly changes depending on what was added in the latest patch so it is important to do your own research on top of this guide. We have broken the equipment down into tiers in order to give some indication of what you can use before you get up to that item level tier.

Slot	Best	Next Tier	Third Tier
Main Hand	Edenmorn Rapier	Augmented Cryptlurker's Tuck	Cryptlurker's Tuck
Head	Augmented Cryptlurker's Mesail of Casting Edenmorn Hat of Casting	Cryptlurker's Mesail of Casting	Edenmete Hat of Casting Exarchic Hat of Casting
Body	Augmented Cryptlurker's Robe of Casting Edenmorn Gown of Casting	Cryptlurker's Robe of Casting	Edenmete Gown of Casting Exarchic Coat of Casting Ornate Exarchic Coat of Casting
Hands	Augmented Cryptlurker's Vambraces of Casting Edenmorn Dress Sleeves of Casting	Cryptlurker's Vambraces of Casting	Edenmete Dress Sleeves of Casting Exarchic Gloves of Casting
Legs	Augmented Cryptlurker's Chausses of Casting Edenmorn Chausses of Casting	Cryptlurker's Chausses of Casting	Edenmete Chausses of Casting Exarchic Hose of Casting
Feet	Augmented Cryptlurker's Shoes of Casting Edenmorn Boots of Casting	Cryptlurker's Shoes of Casting	Edenmete Boots of Casting Exarchic Shoes of Casting
Waist	Augmented Cryptlurker's Belt of Casting Edenmorn Leather Belt of Casting	Cryptlurker's Belt of Casting	Edenmete Leather Belt of Casting Exarchic Plate Belt of Casting
Neck	Augmented Cryptlurker's Choker of Casting Edenmorn Necklace of Casting	Cryptlurker's Choker of Casting	Edenmete Necklace of Casting Exarchic Choker of Casting
Ear	Augmented Cryptlurker's Earring of Casting Edenmorn Earrings of Casting	Cryptlurker's Earring of Casting	Edenmete Earrings of Casting Exarchic Earrings of Casting
Rings	Augmented Cryptlurker's Ring of Casting Edenmorn Ring of Casting	Cryptlurker's Ring of Casting	Edenmete Ring of Casting Exarchic Ring of Casting
Wrist	Augmented Cryptlurker's Bracelet of Casting Edenmorn Wristlet of Casting	Cryptlurker's Bracelet of Casting	Edenmete Wristlet of Casting Exarchic Bracelet of Casting

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