FFXIV Stormblood: How to Play as a Red Mage – Basic Beginner Tips for Starting Out The Red Mage in FFXIV is a ranged caster that can use both White and Black magic, and melee weaponskills too.

Fortunately, Red Mage and Sage are seemingly all the better going into FFXIV Dawntrail. Take the Red Mage, which has two key changes. The first is to make Manafication work better for the player.

FFXIV: Stormblood adds two new jobs into the mix, both of the DPS variety. Red Mage, a powerful DPS melee/mage, and the melee-focused Samurai. If you’re playing as a Red Mage, you might be ...

FFXIV lets you play multiple job classes on the same character, so I’ve been able to try a bunch of them. Red Mage stood out because it’s something I always love in RPGs: a battle mage.