Red Mage is a Character Build in Outward, created by HexxenRuge.

Summary

Red Mage
+175%, -100%, -30%
Breakthroughs			Required Faction
Equipment
Weapon	Off-Hand	Head	Body	Boots	Backpack
	Any	Economy	Economy	Economy

Quickslots
1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8

Buffs

• Enrage
• Focus
• Warm (skill)

Support Items

• Food: Cierzo Ceviche, Bouillon du Predateur, Gaberry Wine
• Potions: Fire Varnish, Great Life Potion
• Tent: Mage Tent, Fire Totemic Lodge if Three Brothers DLC

Mandatory Passives

Tier 1

Tier 3

Quest

Optional Passives

Three Brothers DLC Passives:

• Brains
• Acrobatics
• Patience
• Unsealed

Optional Actives

• Conjure + Reveal Soul: familiar to help with combat.

Utility Passives

• Fast Maintenance
• Metabolic Purge
• Miasmic Tolerance
• Slow Metabolism
• Weather Tolerance

Description

Fire caster build that can do damage with Moon Swipe. Staves are Polearms, so you can use Moon Swipe.

Step by Step Guide

• Get free Moon Swipe with Iron Halberd. Finish first quest and keep House with Bandages fee. Don't progress with quests further. Aim for Makeshift Leather Set and Fang Trident as a start. Get your Mana, one point. Get your Horror Halberd. Palladium Scrap in Ghost Pass or Conflux Mountain, Horror Chitin in inner Chersonese from Shell Horror, Occult Remains from Wendigo in Corrupted Tombs. Gold Lich weapons farm in Voltaic Hatchery to get Cabal Hermit training silver.
• Head to Hallowed Marsh for more Gold Lich weapon farming and to open shortcut to Enmerkar Forest through Spire of Light. Finish training in Monsoon, get Focus and train mandatory Philosopher skills and passives. Getting Scaled Leather Set including backpack, is not a bad idea.
• Head to Enmerkar Forest for Two Handed Horror Weapons farm. Horror Chitins from Cabal of Wind Temple. Occult Remains from Forest Hives. Palladium Scrap from Golems, that you face in forest and/or from Palladium Veins. Train Enrage. Optionally you can train Evasion Shot and Sniper Shot and get yourself Coralhorn Bow to be able to engage in combat
• Head to Abrassar. Train Warm (skill). Now it's time to get Compasswood Staff, the hardest part of the guide. It has no resistance to Fire damage and has weakness to Ethereal damage. It can take a lot tries to get him done. But I would suggest to go with Build:Trickster. Coz you can buy Cannon Pistol and train tier 1 pistol + dagger skills. Manticore Dagger is also not that hard to obtain with Horror Halberd and Fireball, coz Manticore vulnerable to Fire.
• At this point we need to travel to Harmattan. Time to get Antique Plate Set and enchant it. Get Hex Mage training and get Efficiency from The Speedster trainer. To get Antique Plate Set we need 3x Shield Golem Scraps. You can get one from Galvanic Golem that is in the Tower Clock area on the top of the wall. You can sleep 7 days in town to respawn it and kill it. There is another way obtaining Shield Golem Scraps and much easier then killing Galvanic Golem. You can search dungeons and chests in particular, coz Shield Golem Scraps can appear in any dungeon chests. Coz we still need to visit dungeons for Economy enchantment, I would suggest to postpone sleeping strategy. For Economy enchantments we need 2x Dreamer's Root, 4x Elemental Particle – Ice, 3x Tourmaline and 3x Purifying Quartz. Dreamer's Root is easy to obtain, Tourmaline as well. Now as for 4x Elemental Particle – Ice and 3x Purifying Quartz, those are not that easy to get, especially Purifying Quartz. Quartz drops from Galvanic Golem with 33% chance and from Arcane Elementals with 10% chance. For our build purpose we can get Elemental Particle – Ice from Ice Elementals. You can find one in Wendigo Lair. But I would highly suggest doing [[Antique Plato Puzzle], coz you will get additional 2 Ice Elementals during this puzzle. One out in the wilds (see puzzle map) and second when you finish puzzle. Make note, that after you finish puzzle all elementals that were near Lanterns and those who appear as 5 in the end of the puzzle, will respawn each week. This way you can secure both getting Purifying Quartz and Elemental Particle – Ice. In case you have not enough Shield Golem Scraps, Elemental Particle – Ice or Purifying Quartz just sleep 7 days and repeat.

At this point you should be good with full build completed.

Damage Numbers

Moon Swipe main advantage is a great damage multiplier if you have both Enrage and Focus buffs.

Formula: (0.8 (BaseModifier) + 0.5 (EnrageModifier) + 0.5 (FocusModifier)) x 2 (Skill deals damage two times)

So we get 1.8 x 2 damage multiplier, in other words x3.6 of any damage you have on your weapon. Both physical damage and fire damage are subject to skill's multiplier. Let's see full potential of the damage you can deal with Compasswood Staff.

Physical:

• Base Damage: 12
• Focus: 30% with Amplify
• Bouillon du Predateur: 20%
• Alchemical Experiment: 15%

(12 x 1.65) x 3.6 = 71.28 Physical Damage

Fire Damage:

• Base Damage: 12
• Fire Varnish: 12 flat damage + 2.4 as 10% of damage = 14.4 flat Fire Damage
• Warm (skill): 30%
• Compasswood Staff: 20%
• Antique Plate Set: 35%
• Alchemical Experiment: 15%
• Lockwell's Revelation: 30%
• Fire Affinity: 15%
• Immolate: 30%

((12 + 14.4) x 2.75) x 3.6 = 261,36 Fire Damage

So from one use of Moon Swipe you will get 71.28 Physical + 261.36 Fire Damage before resistances calculated. To simplify we get 331 damage. For example Fireball will deal 60 x 2.75 = 165 Fire Damage. That's twice more damage with Moon Swipe then from Fireball. So if you have Staves type weapons use Moon Swipe.

Combos

Fire Barrage
> > > > > > > >

Utilise both Magic and Weapon skills to deal optimised damage combo.

See Also

• Build:Trickster
• Build:Survivor