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Actually no. RDM is forced to be /BLM because they use CSS during the run. In any case there is only one spell worth guaranteeing a near 100% full duration land rate and that's Impact which is Elemental Magic and doesn't work with the RDM SP. Slow / Para / Silence / Grav II / Blind and Addle can all be recast as much as you want with no penalty. They are all cheap and outside of Grav II have a low recast timer. Dia III always lands for the full 15% effect and isn't' helped by ES at all. Break is a joke as the player version of petrify wears the moment the target takes damage, even DoT effects. And that's without even getting into the whole magic accuracy debate.

Seriously what spell would you use it with? There is absolutely nothing it changes or enhances for the job, it's a wasted JA slot.

I've never seen RDMs doing CSS in delve in the runs I've been on. Generally stuns are all done by SCH/BLM. RDMs have often been /SCH for the extra dark magic skill and stratagems for casting Impact. While you're right that this wouldn't affect impact, it would (I assume) be stackable with Saboteur to prevent that "OFFS" moment when the spell you land 90% of the time decided to get resisted when you used Saboteur, as is sod's law.

Please don't get me wrong, I'm not in any way saying that it's good. If anything I'm saying that it has 1% usefulness 1% of the time in curent end-game adoulin content. And when comparing that to the THF SP2, it's 100% more useful than THF's is, if auras can't be stolen.

Mantra doesn't cap HP so no. This SP2 is an oshit macro. Also I remember them saying it would cap HP, let's just hope it's not just HP up.

As I recall, it didn't actually cap your HP, just add the amount of HP that it restored. So if you're down to 100/2000 HP and hit SP2, SP2 increases your HP cap by 2k, and gives you 2K HP. Your HP is now 2100/4000 for example.