Quote Originally Posted by ManaKing View Post
What I am complaining about on the AF3+2 is the set bonus. The set bonus increases the buff duration of buffs cast on OTHERS while under composure. Only 4 of our spells are affected by this 'buff'. So the spells I am talking about are ONLY Refresh 2, Regen 2, Haste, and Phallanx. Those are the only buffs that a RDM can cast on other people that are affected by composure bonuses. All of our other spells are completely unaffected by the set bonus. You as an individual RDM, get nothing out of this except that you don't have to cast those 4 spells as often on other people. The durations for yourself are completely unaffected.

If you choose to /WHM and use their spells, you can also capitalize on this. But honestly a WHM/Anything is superior to a RDM/WHM every day of the week when it comes to enhancing magic by virtue that they can merit their enhancing magic and all their spells can be shared with the party.

RDM/SCH can also share buffs with everyone in the party in addition to everyone in the alliance and is the better choice for this set bonus.

This bonus only really is worth anything if you pigeon hole yourself to 1 of 2 subjobs. Every other job's set bonus does not require sub jobs to become more effective. They intended for their main job. Ours is not.

I am not trying to be funny about how bad this set bonus is because there is nothing funny about it if you are a RDM.
Ok, I see what your saying now. But even with just those 4 spells your saving a lot of time in spells rotation. And I've yet to meet a tank that wouldn't appericate having aqua-veil casted on em during a fight where the NM keeps interrupting them. I think it would be nice to have more native spells that could be cast on others. But the idea of the set bonus is to cut down on the dreaded spell rotation that RDM have been complaining about since TOAU.

We all know RDM is a train wreck right now, as a top tier enfeebler the jobs not cutting it. We have spells that for some reason are blocked from being accession. Our healing falling short. And a lot of the great ideas the RDM community has come up with seem to make there way onto other job classes. This set bonus is one of the good thing's SE has actually given to us to fix an old problem. Question is now, when are they going to fix the new ones.