Anything You Can Do, I Can Do Better!: RDM Guide

Haste samba can help many party mambers, not just RDM. That being said you only need one person to be DNC or /DNC.

Samba should have been 2 minute duration base really

Why do you have
-MND30/MACC
and
-MND30/MACC/WSD

The latter should do for both.

Probably has FC.

Oh! I believe I have either SIRD or FC on it. But if it’s completely unnecessary I could probably needle it.

generally use Perimede cape on RDM, job has no trouble capping FC using other slots so filling in QM where available is the next best thing

Yeah it never hurts to have FC as your extra cape stat for the recast.

Hmmmm I think it might’ve been SIRD on that cape….

What are the current solo capabilities for RDM for stuff like Omen, Sortie (which bosses), and other high end content. I'm looking to make a RDM just for the fun of solo'ing mobs. Is it the best choice?

So I've commented on this in a few other niche threads, but RDM is tied with SCH imo for the best solo job. RDM and SCH are like miles ahead of pretty much every job in the game for soloing. Content like VD Ambuscades are doable on most jobs, same with Omen bosses (all 6). But RDM and SCH in particular are capable of soloing literally almost an entire Aeonic by themselves with trusts (RDM can do Zerde, Teles, Onychop, potentially Schah (my best attempt was 12 adds dead but then I died on RDM, maybe someone else could do better) and SCH can do the rest, Schah included. The only mob that I don't think RDM or SCH could solo with trusts is Erinys which I prefer doing on RUN, but PLD is easier for that fight.

RDM can solo some V5-10 Odyssey bosses (mostly T1/T2s, some v1 T3s are doable), I wouldn't be surprised if it could do some V15 T1s, I don't know if T2s would be doable, never tried or seen/heard anyone try. But you get the idea, It's a really damn good solo job.

RDM can very likely solo 17k+ (A+ E and some minis) Galli in Sortie (if /RUN auto attacks count for C/G light damage, which I don't know if they do, then I could see RDM soloing 4 bosses for 26k+ galli easily just like SCH.)

Hopefully that is the info you wanted. o7

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I agree with everything and I think one other job that is potentially underrated for solo could be BRD. Especially in Odyseey with MM45 trusts.

So I've got my RDM in a good position to start solo'ing. So far, off to an awful start. Are there any guides or anything?

I fail to see how it can take all 6 omen bosses when 3-4 have gimmicks that require abilities that the RDM cannot perform. Unless you do like 5 trust tanks, sacrificing a tank each time for the boss threshold abilities. Tbh I haven't even got past the midboss, Glassy Gorger wrecked me (because he absorbs all the buffs), and fighting without buffs probably puts me over the time limit. So I need more knowledge and skill to pull these solo's off, but I'm wondering if there is anything that can lead me in the right direction.

You mean solo or with trusts?

Can check lute on youtube who has done i think all omen bosses as rdm along with other jobs. Theyre not quick fights but they are possible

Its largely trial and error and also knowing your weak spots as cliche as it may sound. You start to pick up what bosses are more dangerous than others, Gorger is very dangerous for example so it's safe to go glass cannon until he absorbs any attack buffs and or mighty strikes then you'll swap to DT sets. For the Omen bosses itself you just need to prepare for specifically.

For Kin I use AAEV and Mnegjing? For my tank trusts and I keep them alive and cure them myself if I need to. I also like to be squishy and take more damage than normal to shed my own hate faster since trusts are *** at holding it.

Kei I'd go rdm/nin and summon trusts in a specific order to keep all trusts above 10" away so they dont die to fullers and I'll face tank Kei and multistep to chip him down.

Kyou is honestly one of the easier solo bosses for omen once you can think of a method to survive Bravado. Rdm/drg (yes you can super jump to dodge Bravado.) with 0 trusts is the easiest way to survive. My preferred way is to use semi useless trusts that just have large HP and I would have all of these trusts near enough on top of each other when they engage so the conal hits us all, or I can disengage to force them to be together.

Gin is just whatever, only breakga is a threat sub 50%.

Fu is another easy one. You limit buffs and take it slow. The faster you try kill the more you risk. I prefer to keep 4 buffs absorbed. I'd typically solo this with only Yoran and Brygid out.

But yeah with a bit of prep and trial and error all 6 omen bosses are soloable with moderate ease, first few times may seem rough for sure. Try ask critical questions about why youre failing snd how you die etc. Then you can fix whatever mistakes are happening. Maybe your sets are off and youre lacking MEva, who knows. You just gotta trial and error.
I would recommend checking Lute out. He is the greatest player I've ever seen. He is by far the most skilled solo player and I've learned a lot from him. He was the one who helped me with my warder of courage kill with his info, absolute legend all around he is.

I've tried Kei multiple times with RDM/NIN, and despite being able to multistep, I'm finding I just lose hate to where he just goes off and smacks the trusts to death.

So try it /dnc and use the provoke flourish between skillchains with good enmity gear. The steps can help skillchain an extra time as well once you get good at it.

I think the easiest method for this one is to use Monberaux. He will use cover when you get behind him while having enmity and as soon as it will take hit for you, Target is deactivated. I guess not everyone have Monberaux though. Another easy method is to use /DRG and superjump. This fight doesn't have any gimmicks reducing damage or giving Kin huge regen, so going /DRG should be perfectly viable to meet dps check.

Bravado conal is very long. Probably like 20 yalms. It gets very wide very fast too, so if you stand very close to Kyou and far from your trusts, they don't even need to be grouped very close to each other to all get hit.

If you can put a long Dia on Kyou then you can also die, resummon trusts and engage to let them tank while you unweaken after 75% then 50%, then at 25% sac one (make it kill in one direction) then try to zerg the rest or it is technically possible to sac a 2nd tank if you can position things. Meteor under 25% makes it really shitty though. Obviously this is a long way of doing it and really just get a PUP to sac pet for it.

Thanks for all the advice everyone! Yeah...Lute is absurd. I wish I knew how to read Japanese or knew what gear sets he was using. He seems to switch between all the REMA? But this is before even Prime Weapons were out so maybe thats the best option now? Incredible to watch him though.

Thanks for all the advice everyone! Yeah...Lute is absurd. I wish I knew how to read Japanese or knew what gear sets he was using. He seems to switch between all the REMA? But this is before even Prime Weapons were out so maybe thats the best option now? Incredible to watch him though.

Why would you do that when you can simply let everyone get hit and cure? It's super easy, especially if you go on a job with huge aoe cure like BLU or DNC, but even DNC. Now if you want to be really fancy and you have GEO in party, you can go on DRK drain3 to 9999hp on floor before and just let bravado hit you and luopan for 5000 damage (you can do it on MNK with Mantra or SP2 too). I think you can technically do it without luopan too by either eating hp food and going above 10k HP and survive 10k by yourself, but you would need to be really careful to have topped HP before you trigger bravado. Though technically I think Arcane Circle might reduce damage from bravado, so it would do slightly over 9000 and you could also use brd/sch and Accession to increase safe gap even further. But like I have said, this would be just making it fancy and fun, you can just spread the damage to full party and that's the easiest way. You can also use things like Mantra on MNK to make it easier.

Well you don't have a GEO if you're solo. I don't think you can reliably align trusts without disengaging and using WS disengaged (idk if he knows/does this). Talking legit ways to do it.

It's super easy to align trust to get hit on everyone. That tp move is like 20 yalm long and cone is getting very wide from the main target. All you need to do is move one way to drag trust after Kin, then move on their side and stay close to kin and far from trusts so cone start from you to them get very wide. They don't even need to be that close to each other. Ofc for this you need trusts that stay at range and ideally summon them in order that will keep them at range.

Show video

I can't do it myself at I'm on the holidays, coming back Sunday evening. I might try to find something on yt.

Ale gdzie?

Here you go https://youtu.be/b4MA_lkkcB0?si=g991l_Z_xHHQvqYr you can see how spread his trusts are and still all getting hit.