Red Mage Job Abilities and Best Sub-Jobs

This is a guide to the Red Mage Job class in Bravely Default 2 (Bravely Default II) for the Nintendo Switch. Read on to know all the details about the Red Mage Job including its abilities, specialties, stat modifiers, and weapon proficiencies!

Red Mage Overview

Red Mage Overview
・Combine red mages with black mages and other magical specialists to maximise the range of elemental abilities available. ・They're great at exploiting vulnerabilities, and can also inflict various status ailments.

Red Mage Notable Stats

HP	MP	Strength	Defense
Magic	Magic Defense	Healing Power	Agility

How to Play the Red Mage

Exploit Enemy Status Ailments

The Red Mage is capble of unleashing status ailments based on the elemental magic they have used. To further expand this, we highly suggest equipping the Black Mage as a Sub-Job to the Red Mage to expand the amount of status ailments it can inflicts to enemies!

	Berserk/Doom
	Freeze/ Poison
	Paralysis/Confusion
	Sleep/Silence
	Slow/Stop
	Blind/Charm Also applies to healing abilities against undead enemies.
	Dread/Contagion

Max Level Strengthens the Red Mage Greatly!

The Red Mage's 2nd Speciality Chain Spell causes the caster to cast the spell a 2nd time for free. This is one of the biggest powerspikes of mage classes and it is highly suggested to max the Red Mage class immediately for this ability.

Red Mage Ability List

Ability	Type	Cost	Level	Effect
Stone	Command	15 MP	1	Performs an earth magic attack on a target/all targets.
Aero	Command	15 MP	2	Performs a wind magic attack on a target/all targets.
Heal	Command	14 MP	3	Restore 1000 HP to a target.
Stonera	Command	38 MP	4	Performs a powerful earth magic attack on a target/all targets.
Aerora	Command	38 MP	5	Performs a powerful wind magic attack on a target/all targets.
Healara	Command	36 MP	6	Restore 2000 HP to a target.
Magic Critical	Support	1 Slot	7	Enables magical attacks to inflict critical hits.
Revenge	Support	1 Slot	8	Roughly 25% chance of the user's BP increasing by one when attacked.
Healaga	Command	49 MP	9	Restore 3000 HP to a target.
Stonega	Command	66 MP	10	Performs an extremely powerful earth magic attack on a target/all targets.
Aeroga	Command	66 MP	11	Performs an extremely powerful wind magic attack on a target/all targets.
Disaster	Command	100 MP	12	Perform an extremely powerful magical attack on a target that combines the powers of earth and wind.
Quake	Command	80 MP	13	Perform an incredibly powerful earth magic attack on a target.
Tornado	Command	80 MP	14	Perform an incredibly powerful wind magic attack on a target.
HP/MP Convertor	Support	2 Slots	15	Using abilities during battle expends HP instead of MP, but at ten times the MP cost.

Best Abilities

Magic Critical

Allows your magics to critically strike. An ability that flats out buffs the damage output of elemental spells. Even if you don't wish to play the Red Mage, we highly suggest at least getting this support ability.

Revenge

Allows your character to get BP when attacked. This ability goes extremely well with tank classes like the Vanguard who wants the enemy attention to themselves!

Red Mage Speciality and Special Ability

Speciality

Speciality 2 Can only be learned after leveling the Red Mage to Level 12.

Special Ability

Red Mage Weapon Proficiencies

Below are the weapons proficiencies for the Red Mage Job. Refer to this section to know which weapons are best suited for the Red Mage Job.

How to Unlock the Red Mage Job

Defeat Roddy

Roddy is the bearer of the Red Mage Asterisk. He is capable of inflicting damage and status ailments at the same time so be wary of these ailments and equip your party accordingly!

How to Beat Roddy

Best Sub-Jobs for Red Mage

Oracle

TheOracle's 3 elemental spell goes pretty well with the Red Mage's nuisance speciality which inflicts extra status ailments unto foes. This greatly expands the Oracle's abilities that can easily destroy normal enemies and bosses alike!

Oracle Job Abilities and Best Sub-Jobs

Arcanist

While this combo will need a lot of support from your equipment builds and team composition, it is still an extremely strong job combo that can wipe out enemies in a single (or double) spell cast.

Arcanist Job Abilities and Best Sub-Jobs

Bravely Default 2 Job Guides

Jobs List

List of Jobs

Jobs
Freelancer	White Mage	Black Mage	Monk
Vanguard	Thief	Bard	Beast Master
Gambler	Berserker	Red Mage	Ranger
Shieldmaster	Pictomancer	Dragoon	Swordmaster
Spiritmaster	Salve-Maker	Oracle	Bastion
Phantom	Arcanist	Hellblade	Bravebearer

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