Jack Of All Trades: A Guide To Red Mage

Anyone have a max Haste duration set?

For yourself or for other people?

Edit: This set will give you the best duration for casting on other people. With merits haste will be between 12-13 minutes.
ItemSet 386312

Augments:
Colada +4% Enhancing Duration
Ghostfyre Cape: +20% Enhancing Duration

For self casting, swap the following:
telchine cap Augment +10% Enhancing Duration
vitiation tabard +3
telchine braconi Augment +10%% Enhancing Duration

Your duration will be capped at 30 minutes for self casting due to how the 3x composure duration works.

ive been so hyped on trying to get regal cuffs, i totally over looked the fact that attrophy gloves +3 have the same enhancing percentage. now my question is why do ppl use the jse cape from reieves when the ambu cape offers the same % with FC (if fc ws added.)

Wiki has a good explanation on it -
https://www.bg-wiki.com/ffxi/Ghostfyre_Cape

It was tested to be calculated as a separate multiplier from other enhancing magic duration gear -
http://www.ffxiah.com/forum/topic/44864/all-for-one-and-more-for-me-a-guide-to-red-mage/8/#2862289

Yeah, decent explanation. Basically Augments are their own separate multiplicative modifier to duration from gear that naturally has duration modifier.

So the composure set has the following bonuses that multiply duration of a spell
Composure + 4 pieces of empy gear: 1.35 modifier
Augmented gear (JSE neck, Colada, Ghostfyre): 1.49 modifier
Duration on gear (shield, hands, feet, ear, waist): 1.89 modifier

So durations end up being:
No merits: 180 * 1.35 * 1.49 * 1.89 = 684.3 seconds = 11:24.3 (with ambu cape: 655.2 seconds = 10:55.2) You actually lose almost 30 seconds of duration
With merits: 210 * 1.35 * 1.49 * 1.89 = 798.3 seconds = 13:18.3 seconds

Edit: The reason Ghostfyre cape ends up being better than Ambuscade cape is purely due to the fact that there is more bonus being provided by the gear that naturally has duration on it before considering the cape slot. If the augment gear actually had a higher base total than the natural gear, ambuscade cape would provide a bigger bonus.

	||||	With Ghostfyre	||||	With Sucellos
No Merits		11:24 seconds		10:55 seconds
With Merits		13:18 seconds		12:46 seconds

regal cuffs have enfeebling magic duration, not the enhancing magic duration that atrophy gloves have.