[dev1041] Relic Armor Upgrades

[Greatguardian]

Nope. Sphere effects are an AoE that affects everyone... except the wearer. Don't ask me why. Please. It makes my head hurt.

The RDM AF3+2 set bonus is also a direct response to the constant complaint of, well, 99% of RDMs in existence who felt that their single-target buff cycles were absolutely ridiculous and needed to be fixed. I mean, if you never cast Haste or Refresh on the rest of your party anyways, I guess it doesn't really do anything for you. But, you know, for those of us that actually do enhance our fellows, it's one of the best Set bonuses out there.

[ManaKing]

Nope. Sphere effects are an AoE that affects everyone... except the wearer. Don't ask me why. Please. It makes my head hurt.

The RDM AF3+2 set bonus is also a direct response to the constant complaint of, well, 99% of RDMs in existence who felt that their single-target buff cycles were absolutely ridiculous and needed to be fixed. I mean, if you never cast Haste or Refresh on the rest of your party anyways, I guess it doesn't really do anything for you. But, you know, for those of us that actually do enhance our fellows, it's one of the best Set bonuses out there.

Oh I do enhance my fellows, but I honestly don't feel the difference. There is no moment where I feel any sort of lasting gratification for completing my AF3+2. My 'super cool proc' is that my proc was sacrificed to convenience other people. I'm not debating your point of reference for it's justification, because it is true. I'm just saying they could have put that kind of buff anywhere.

Then again, the AF3+2 is mostly a macro set for magic anyways. You really have to pick and choose which pieces you are using in specific macros to get the most out of them. I really only have the entire set on for casting Enhancing Magic. And if that is the case, I would have really appreciated enhancing potency instead of duration. Even making all of your enhancing magic GA spells would have been a significant improvement and wouldn't have broken RDM.

SEs greatest fear wouldn't come to pass. Everyone wouldn't be suddenly playing RDM since RDMs could support more people more easily. And people could still play /SCH for Ascension since you still couldn't cast anything but Haste outside of party.