What would you want out of rdm melee gear?

[Neisan_Quetz]

That's... pretty bad nukes if you mean inside... But yea you shouldn't take -that- long to melee something down compared to nuking.

[Rayik]

As for the topic at hand, I've seen that we're getting some new Haste pieces, so getting to Haste cap(or at least really close) is a lot more attainable. I'd like to see some Subtle Blow so that our TP feed isn't so severe, otherwise some decent melee stats, something like a newer high level version of Dusk, since Dusk gloves give Haste and Attack+. More gear that enhances RDM specific stuff would be nice, like Enhancing enspell damage, enhances buff duration(besides AF3), etc.

In my opinion, making any decent hybrid gear is asking a lot, too much even(Ogre Ledelsens anyone?). I've had greater success in this game gearing specifically for what I'm doing, and swapping accordingly, rather than try to have some kind of catch-all fulltime gear. If you're melee'ing, get some melee gear on.

[Rayik]

That's... pretty bad nukes if you mean inside... But yea you shouldn't take -that- long to melee something down compared to nuking.

I'm gimp, I have nothing to hide. I've never really had a reason to nuke; I've spent most of my time in game with my wife, who is a good BLM and nukes the pants off of anything we're fighting. I'm usually on RDM for support. I got my Elemental Magic up to 290-ish, but my nukes still pale to my melee. I posted my lulzy nuking set in one of these 10 melee threads around here somewhere.

[Neisan_Quetz]

Might've been iceday but 3k on Blizz 4 shouldn't be hard on fodder trash, but going from 4-3 then waiting on recast, it's better to just melee, yes.

[Rayik]

That's just one of the things I love about being a RDM though; we have the variety to choose which works better for our preference. For my play style, I like beating the mob down and buffing while my wife nukes it from orbit. It's worked out well for us and we enjoy it. Others can do the opposite and see good results(I wouldn't tank with the BLM though, lol).

[tyrantsyn]

If anything I'd like to see gear that would improve RDMs specifically to a point where meleeing an easy prey target doesn't take 20x longer that the RDM has to rely on nuking all their mana away and barely get away from a battle.

I understand what your saying here, even well gear out, some melee fights really feel they draw out longer than they should. RDM could really value from a peice of gear with STR and ATT stats on it. And a native weapon skill that can actual output damage. Tho with a good nuke set and /war /pld /drk sanguine blade outputs good damage. And i've hit decent to easy prey mobs for close to 1k out side of abyssea.

[Rayik]

I've gotten Savage Blade over 1k many times outside of Abyssea, but it was definitely the exception, and not the rule. Usually hovers around 400-700 dmg.

With the mods on it the way they are, I really feel like it should do a lot more damage than it does. RDM has access to lots of MND gear(Ogre Leds. +1; 12 ATT and 5 MND) and a good amount of STR(Alky's bracer's are great) for it, but it just does crap for damage no matter how I gear it.

[tyrantsyn]

I've gotten Savage Blade over 1k many times outside of Abyssea, but it was definitely the exception, and not the rule. Usually hovers around 400-700 dmg.

With the mods on it the way they are, I really feel like it should do a lot more damage than it does. RDM has access to lots of MND gear(Ogre Leds. +1; 12 ATT and 5 MND) and a good amount of STR(Alky's bracer's are great) for it, but it just does crap for damage no matter how I gear it.

Same here, and the thing is most of the gear you mention is old school vintage and makes us look like crap. Be nice to have a set that look's rdm'ish and gives us the stats we desire. Something we could share between us and blu would be great.

[Shiyo]

Warriors autoattack for 400-700 outside abyssea.

I also blizz4 for 2.8k-3k inside while not needing to have a completely worthless sub, so you're doing something horribly wrong(which was pretty obvious just by saying you were playing RDM inside abyssea but w/e)

[tyrantsyn]

Warriors autoattack for 400-700 outside abyssea.

I also blizz4 for 2.8k-3k inside while not needing to have a completely worthless sub, so you're doing something horribly wrong(which was pretty obvious just by saying you were playing RDM inside abyssea but w/e)

Well war's crit hit for about that much, and it sounds like you have some fine gear and atma hitting those numbers. Not quite sure what that has to do with the subject but thanx for sharing.