Do Relic, Mythic, and Empyrean staves lack utility?

[Byrth]

Did everyone just climb out from under a rock? Pick a forum. Melee SMN first came out with colibri camps.

Heard it here first guys, pet burns on Bark Tarantulas in Dragon's Aery didn't exist.

Greatguardian is entirely correct.

Dallas, you're implying that you're going to start running out of MP if you can't melee, which is bad, because all of the situations where your job is remotely useful are also situations where meleeing is impractical. I'm basically talking about Voidwatch and ??? pop Dynamis NMs.

[Dallas]

Dallas, you're implying that you're going to start running out of MP if you can't melee, which is bad, because all of the situations where your job is remotely useful are also situations where meleeing is impractical. I'm basically talking about Voidwatch and ??? pop Dynamis NMs.

Yes, this is the standard approach. Once you realize that melee is plausible in 99% of all situations, focus on the 1%. I have a general answer for you, at least for Dynamis (Voidwatch is crap). It is not necessary to melee as SMN on any mob that no one else melees. There are OTHER mobs in Dynamis to build TP on.

Remember, the backup plan is to play like the gimps. I have more utility.

[Leonlionheart]

Yes, this is the standard approach. Once you realize that melee is plausible in 99% of all situations, focus on the 1%. I have a general answer for you, at least for Dynamis (Voidwatch is crap). It is not necessary to melee as SMN on any mob that no one else melees. There are OTHER mobs in Dynamis to build TP on.

Remember, the backup plan is to play like the gimps. I have more utility.

TPing on other mobs to refresh your MP when you can just use a perp- staff and sub rdm for refresh, and still get MP back at all times. This argument kind of throws your "SMN MELEE IS CUL CUZ I DO DAMG WIT STAV" out of the equation.