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Advanced Guide

Tue, 16 Dec 2025 20:27:42 +0000

by Tomcat Frost (Faerie)

FOREWORD

One of the biggest requests I have had is a more concise document on what people “need to know” before jumping into more difficult content. This is not meant to be a replacement for a general guide to Dancer; please see Ringabel’s extensive write-up instead, which will be linked at the end of the document in the appendix.

This guide will be broken down into three sections: Basics, Intermediate, and Advanced. I am hopeful that even some of the more experienced players may learn something new from this document.

Advanced Guide

Thu, 04 Jul 2024 02:44:58 +0000

This guide will be updated for Dawntrail at a later date.

Non-Standard Guide

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Advanced Guide

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Introduction

This guide will cover some Endwalker Red Mage optimization concepts and principles that aren’t fully covered in the basic job guide. The intended audience includes:

Red Mage players who have the fundamentals mostly down and are familiar with all the concepts in the basic job guide, but are trying to improve.
High performing Red Mage players who get good logs through good GCD uptime, intuitive sense and repetition but wish to augment their theoretical understanding.
Players who have experience optimizing other jobs but are trying out Red Mage.

Some of the content here will cover concepts that are obvious to people who have experience playing other jobs at a high level. Other aspects will be unique to Red Mage.