Job Vision: Watch paint dry

[Korpg]

Remind me again why it is:

If you want to play a real melee, change job.

but not

If you want to play a real healer, change job.


Obviously you are just randomly picking your facts to create your own truth, when in fact melee and /WHM are two sides of the same coin.

But it is like that. SMN is neither a melee job nor a healer. The best thing a SMN can do is solo. Second best? Deliver TP free damage, you don't even have to release the avatar to do that! Curing Status effects is probably the 4th or 5th best thing, curing HP is just below that, melee is dead bottom.

I'm not saying that you can't do more than one thing at a time. In fact, it is very helpful to do TP free damage AND cure status effects AND help cure HP, much more than swinging a staff.

[Razushu]

It is if the monster has no paralyze.

Might also add that you can swing a stick AND paralyna without any problem at all.

Being paralyzed while trying to cast paralyna is a problem though.

[Alhanelem]

Swinging a stick aint so useful, Paralyna is.

Swinging a stick doesn't prevent you from casting Paralyna.

I'm perfectly fine with people not liking the idea of melee, but the above isn't a valid reason. Having your weapon drawn does not in any way stop you from casting spells. Paladins do this all the time. Some people claim it's more difficult, but I don't find it more difficult at all.

Being paralyzed while trying to cast paralyna is a problem though.

Yes, but if you try to remove paralyna from yourself, that means the WHM or whoever else has it can focus on other people and not put any attention on you. This is why /WHM has good utility for the job even if you're not curing much of anything.

[Korpg]

Swinging a stick doesn't prevent you from casting Paralyna.

It does when you go /SAM so you can swing the stick faster and more accurate.

[Alhanelem]

My SAM isn't even high enough to sub, so that's not a problem.

[Malamasala]

I'm not saying that you can't do more than one thing at a time. In fact, it is very helpful to do TP free damage AND cure status effects AND help cure HP, much more than swinging a staff.

I could compare it to DNC. While dealing damage + healing is useful, it isn't always I need to do both. Same with SMN. Sometimes I do not need to cure status effects or cure... should I only stand there and do TP free damage and watch paint dry? No, I'll go poke it with a stick so I have something fun to do.

Do I always melee? No, sometimes I go post on these forums instead between pacts. Why heal if it isn't needed? Better to do something else.

[Korpg]

My SAM isn't even high enough to sub, so that's not a problem.

No actual melee job leveled?

[Alhanelem]

PUP and DNC were my only "melee jobs" until recently I finished DRK. I have WAR and MNK in the 50s,

[Korpg]

PUP and DNC were my only "melee jobs" until recently I finished DRK. I have WAR and MNK in the 50s,

Get SAM in your life, and you will wonder what in the heck you were missing from your life.

[Alhanelem]

Get SAM in your life, and you will wonder what in the heck you were missing from your life.

SAM isn't a good sub for PUP and is only good for DNC because of meditate essentially being refresh for the job.