Jack Of All Trades: A Guide To Red Mage

Also if you're casting a spell not affected by potency with Stymie. 5/5 empy will have higher duration than mixing relic in due to set bonus when Stymie guarantees the spell will land.

Depending on the spell, you're not swapping out the relic feet

I'm curious to see any info/testing on the new Archduke's Sword. I'm sure it's still way behind most serious options, but the different wording ""En" Spell Damage" makes it sound like it's a different effect from the typical "Sword enhancement spell damage." My first instinct was that it was just worded that way to include Enlight, but Brilliance also uses the "Sword enhancement spell" wording for duration.

Can't get it until friday.

I don't think anyone has seen it drop yet

Also

The archduke event said in the event posting

"Please note that there will be no changes to the spoils you can earn from the battlefield on these three occasions."

But then again also weird because only data miners are gonna see that they added said sword

This could imply the actual battle field drops itself now that I think about it

Carry on ...

So, any insight on the Archduke's Sword yet? Specifically, wondering about potential as an /NIN or /DNC offhand to Crocea Mors C for a heavily enspell focused build.

Still significantly worse than other options for RDM.

If you were intent on keeping only swords equipped while nuking it might be useful for BLU? Really don't know why you'd do that though.

It does have good macc/MAB so it'd be easy to think it can pump up Enspell damage while not gimping, say, your nuking prowess, but the enspell damage only applies to hits from the sword itself, making the added DPS quite meh. At that point you're doing more overall damage by swinging a Demersal Degen +1 and switching weapons for nuking, even with the loss of TP.

The duration makes a max potency Enspell last 24min instead of 18, but... it's entirely marginal and at that duration nobody really cares.

It's not an RDM piece imo. Maybe if you don't have the other options, but none of them (outside Crocea) are hard to get anyway.

It does look very nice tho!

This.

For Crocea Builds offhanding Thibron (if macc allows) or Daybreak (if you need more macc and/or wanna spam Seraph Blade) are better options, imho.
Now if the enspell damage applied to both hands it would be a different story, but it's not and to my knowledge no single weapon boosting enspell damage applies to all hits.
In addition to Crocea and Archduke's sword there's also an Unity sword with augment Enspell damage, forgot the name.
But it's all the same story.

Imho it's a secondary option compared to the main two I mentioned.

Yes you covered the ws buildes with Crocea, these are the pure enspell builds:
Levante dagger with wind element enspell is the best offhand for enspells as long as wind is alright, the wind affinity applies to both hands.
Pukulatmuj +1 with full augment is the next best option for when wind isn't an option.

Archdukes is pretty far behind and its duration just moves you out of sync with temper II for RDM

Where I think Archdukes is interesting is Enlight/Enlight II on PLD where it is an option instead of Brilliance, +60 sec duration vs +15 sec duration and 15 skill. Enlight only has 3 min duration so the added duration is much appreciated but it does lose potency with each hit so the added time may not get you that far and you may prefer the skill for potentially higher potency.

For a build that is focusing entirely on enspell damage and nothing else, then you'd want demersal degen +1 or a Pukulatmuj +1 in the offhand anyway. The first is for the OAT and the second is basically a 1/2 potency crocea, which would do more than flat +30 to enspell.

Edit: Augments are +50% Enspell damage and +150% Enspell damage respectively.

It's a shame the offhands are so much worse

For those lucky ones with RDM+2 earring, which sets do you use it on?
I'm curious to see if I missed some potentially good use on some sets.

Also do you use it specifically on any WS? On TP sets I can see the potential, sounds worth it even if you lose the STP in the same slot, but I didn't math it out.

TP set, Savage Blade set, CDC multi-hit set. Its really nice if you are lucky enough to have rolled max stats on it too with +15str/dex and 8% double attack. The better the roll the more its plastered into its right ear spot lol.

My Savage blade set involves a flametongue along with the +2 earring and makes for some gnarly savage blades. Which also comes with some nice magic acc on it. (so you dont have to macro weapons in just for Magic acc and lose tp)

I don't use it in TP sets due to Temper II. I already use Sherida Earring, so I try not to add too much DA if at all possible, but it's a good earring for TP IMO. I'm usually /DNC on RDM (so my earring slots are taken up by Eabani+Suppanomimi; /NIN is a DW cape that frees up Ear for Sherida), but even single wielding I go with something that has STP (Telos, Dedition).

I use it for both attack capped and uncapped Savage Blade and Black Halo sets, as well as Requiescat. Precast all spells, midcast Impact and Absorb-TP.

I'd imagine after a certain point, ranked Alabaster Earring pretty much replaces JSE earring +2 in several sets unless you have a high roll (mine is only attribute+7), but there's no way I'm ranking that earring up at this time, so it fills a good number of sets currently for me.

I've been pondering on TP set for that same reason.
But being that in the Multiattack order DA comes after TA, wouldn't that mean that DA would happen only if TA doesn't?
This diminishes the "power" of DA, but it doesn't hurt TA because it gets calculated after, right?

Correct. RDM doesnt have so much TA that the DA becomes useless, but there's better raw TP earrings like sherida or the limbus ear if you can manage to max it out, or crep, dedition etc since STP wont get devalued as much imo