Hyrist said it better than I could. Gear swap into Refresh gear while idling. Done.
While we're at it, I'll just say right now my melee gear set is not that great, it's still heavily a work in progress. Actually, it's pretty gimp. Given how sub-optimal melee RDM even is in this game at the moment, getting help to get the better stuff isn't easy. It's pretty much been nothing more than something to do on the side for fun.
My opinion, bottom line, if you want to stand in the back and just toss cures and buffs, just be a WHM. I'm a fan of hyrbids and multitasking, so juggling melee and spellcasting appeals to me. Standing in the back curing is the most boring thing to me.
Again, you spent more of your argument going off of baseless assumptions; repeatedly bringing up "stop playing with gimp players", as if you were somehow watching me play at all times(creepy), while I gave multiple examples of what I was talking about with in-game mechanics. Please, I am genuinely asking you, where did I bring up a silly excuse for anything? Because I refuse to parse lolmeleeRDM against a specialist DD?
Was this supposed to be a link? This isn't even a sentence. Your posts hurt my brain.
aye. my ls is supposed to be doing zelus tiaras.. tonight... hows that for a sad coincidence? even worse.. we were supposed to do it last week! but it never got off the ground. i coulda HAD one for this ><
but what are you gonna do? at least at 90 cap, any warning i had beforehand woulda just been used the same way.. i was chasing tiara ANYWAY yah know? this is my rdm "as is" even down to keeping melee food in the mog sack at all times.
also just to give some context and answer some questions/comments i've read here and on bg:
i only rarely hasted gokku. left that up to the whm usually. only casted it on others if asked, wich was infrequent.
i was keeping fresh2 on myself, the whm, AND the blu. the blu i considered non-critical. so he only ever got it during pulls/etc. minimal impact on my dmg from him.
i don't have dia3, at all. but for the sake of argument i dunno how much it would matter? would it have helped either of us more than the other?
i didn't "pick" brisk mask.. as stated above.. i'd wear a zelus in a heartbeat..... but i don't have it :\
as for my casting load, i started out trying to keep it as light as possible. (was told to just play it like a DD) but it quickly became apparent that the whm was... overwhelmed.... so for most of the parse i was doing sleep/silence/light cureing. still less than what would normally be asked of an rdm in a pickup group, however.
my almace is only 85, for whatever that's worth. the screenshot doesn't show so just figured i'd mention it
and i was eating food, hedgehog pie. dunno about the randoms. i believe gokku was eating marbled steak. nearly identical.
i think that's all i have to add.. of course gokku has all the real numbers anyway.. i play on xbox so i couldn't even parse myself if i wanted to.. so this was interesting for me, and i thank him for his time.
edit: realized i was calling gokku "guk".. like as in gukumatz i guess... dunno why. trauma maybe.... burned into my psyche........
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Couldn't you grab a Walahra Turban to tide you over until your shell goes after Zelus Tiara? Might be worth it if you LS keeps flaking out on you.
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oh you meant a rdm was able to do 80% of a sam BEFORE 2handed weapon update and before hasso? in this case i can aggre
can find multiple parse of a sam doing 80%(or lower) of another sam when the should do the sameMultiple parses have backed this ~80% claim and while the example parse posted was...slightly old...I have seen other ones since then that have continued to back the 80% claim.
Last edited by hiko; 07-20-2011 at 10:21 PM.
Going back to this for a moment, I do have a question about how added effect weapons take effect. This is not a question about optimal play, I'm curious how a game mechanic works:
Hypothetically, if you dual-wielded two different weapons with an added effect property, let's say main hand has Magic Defense Down, and off-hand has Magic Evasion Down, would the effects both be active if they proc'ed? Or would one effect overwrite the other? I understand en-spells don't work with them, but would they activate independently?
For that matter, could you wield two weapons with the same added effect, and stack the effect? I'm asking because I genuinely do not know.
If you spent more time arguing about the actual topic instead of pointing out my grammar mistakes and making personal attacks instead of attacking/arguing with what I'm actually saying you would realize you look really foolish.
See, here you go again, attacking my grammar without an actual counter-argument. If you think my posts make your brain hurt, how about YOUR posts making everyone else's brain hurt. Here is the video since you obviously can't search youtube properly:Was this supposed to be a link? This isn't even a sentence. Your posts hurt my brain.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ReopFQsirQ
Doombringer, mind posting your WS set for us? (Enhancing set too if you don't mind.)
Also I'm noticing 15 Light Skillchains, but of relatively low damage, was that you closing on Goku or some other cause? (Victory Smite is listed to being able to close on itself with light, was wondering if this is the same with CDC's light element, meaning you could have opened for Goku. I tend to focus on opening skillchains for burst damage increase rather than push individual DPS numbers, our WS numbers are never that great.)
Probably would have benefited you more than than Goku, as defense reductions often benefit the lower attack jobs. I would have let the Bard double March and focused on a brief Dia 3 as each mob as pulled/agroed. You might have suffered from the casting time and not having capped gear haste especially, but the party would have preformed better.i don't have dia3, at all. but for the sake of argument i dunno how much it would matter? would it have helped either of us more than the other?
In the respect of this context, the Blue Mage would have benefited the most from Dia III, as the defense calculations would have factored into his spell damage as well.
Gear wise I'd recommend getting Goliard when you can. ACP Body likely won't outweigh haste benefits in most cases due to the way scaling haste works. Having that haste capped is critical.
I'm assuming your offhand is Chimeric Fluret. Do you have plans on going for a DA Khanda soon? Seems to be the best offhand for Sword when dual wielding, especially to abuse the crap out of Almace's Aftermath. (A BLU concept, but should still be sound for RDM) Otherwise you probably would have been better of /WAR in this case (Fencer, DA, Warcry, Zerk). The Fluret, while a nice sword, was likely holding your Almace back this time around.
Is there a timeframe when that video actually gets interesting? RDM does almost nothing and I don't see how people are ok with that sort of role for the RDM.
... I mean... he Saboteur'ed Poison II...
I really do hope SE fills that tall order into making us right buff/debuff specialists for endgame.
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