Final Fantasy XI’s February update brings substantial improvements to Red Mage

It’s been a long time since Final Fantasy XI made Red Mages happy. The job has languished for a long while with most of its unique tricks becoming less important or powerful and other jobs filling a similar role. But the game’s February patch is definitely a noteworthy buff for the job, starting with Saboteur buffing magic accuracy, the effect and duration of enfeebling spells, increasing the change for Immunobreak, and having a shortened recast of 3 minutes. It also no longer gets removed upon casting specific spells, so it’s a significant change for the ability.

Meanwhile, Composure now lengthens recasts on spells while buffing magic accuracy, buffing the duration of enhancements on the Red Mage, and buffing the overall effect of the En-spells as long as it lasts. All of this should provide extra reasons to play the job in the new additions to Ambuscade that have dropped with this patch, or while clearing through vintage Zilaart missions in order to pick up the new quest to unlock a flying Zilaart platform as a mount.

The red mage job has undergone the following adjustments.

• The effects of Saboteur have been changed.
  * As a result, the effects of Saboteur will not wear off even when using an enfeebling spell during its duration
  • Increases magic accuracy for the duration.
    * This effect’s value scales with character level and applies to non-enfeebling spells as well.
  • Increases the effect of enfeebling spells for the duration.
  • Increases the duration of enfeebling spells used during the effect.
  • Increases the chance of Immunobreak occurring when using enfeebling spells during the effect.
  • The recast time has been decreased from 300 seconds to 180 seconds.
• The effects of the job point “Saboteur Effect” have been increased.
  • Increases magic accuracy by 2 during the duration of Saboteur.
    * This effect now applies to non-enfeebling spells as well.

The effects of Composure have been changed.

• Increases magic accuracy for the duration.
  * This effect’s value scales with character level.
• Lengthens recast time for the duration.
• Enhancement effects gained through white and black magic you cast on yourself last longer.
• Increases the damage of En- spells for the duration.
  * This effect’s value scales with character level.