The Problem with Red Mage . . .

[ManaKing]

No~ Last I knew it proced on WSs as well as normal strikes. I was led to believe the main reason for most emps these days such as Masa or Calad was to use the WS to have an active aftermath of which you then spam the corresponding Merit WS with a chance to get the ODD effect to proc thus creating more overall damage, I may have been mistaken however, this is only going off of what I have been told, never looked into it much myself. If I'm wrong then so be it, but in either case I still think neither of us have had an Excalibur long enough to say with 100% certainty which one is better than the other. Because so far as I gather from the thread asking for a loan that you have had yours about a week, and I doubt that is enough time to get any definitive info on which is better and in which situations without going simply off another's testimony of which I can not see it as a good idea to defend another's ideals or opinions so adamantly.

I've had an Almace for a long time. I know what Empys are. An Almace is BLUs Relic, since they didn't get in on Excal. I would have never put together a Relic if I didn't do my research first. MYTHICS ARE THE ONLY AM THAT PROC DURING A WS AND THE ONLY WS THEY PROC DURING IS THEIR MYTHIC.

So whatever you think the argument was for Almace on RDM, you are wrong, just like they are wrong for thinking that CDC + Aftermath for Almace is a good thing for a RDM because it implies that you are going to an event with an extended boss fight with temp support and that you aren't needed for CCS, which means you should have come an actual DD if you really cared about rocking that parse and getting all elitest. If you are going around and murdering small groups of mobs Excal wins and that's what you should be doing. Being able to WS more quickly because of not only the better/faster TP generation of an Ephemeron offhand not to mention the additional affect of even more TP is what is going to kill your mobs faster so that you can keep moving on. The AM that may or may not be relevant at all, will not, nor will throwing a 900 damage CDC that didn't crit and you got unlucky with double attacks.

Pretending an Almace AM is going to pay off because you're too lazy to make an Excal for RDM after you made an Almace for BLU is just insulting for the rest of the people that actually took the time to be the best they could be for RDM. That's what Saevel and NQ are doing. Boo hoo Relics are expensive and PLD is crappy so I'll just say Almace is better and mislead a bunch of people to make me feel better. Grow up.