Experience as a Rune Fencer

[Babekeke]

I disagree.

Fighting Arch-Ultima as RUN/WAR with agressor up, using foil still made 50% of the TP moves miss me. I understand that this could have included parry procs, but not all of them.

With refresh 2 from RDM, I had no problem cycling flash and foil, oh and with just max haste gear and haste spell, the recast on foil is low enough to full-time it. Which you want to do for the enmity as well.

[Osmond]

I disagree.

Fighting Arch-Ultima as RUN/WAR with agressor up, using foil still made 50% of the TP moves miss me. I understand that this could have included parry procs, but not all of them.

With refresh 2 from RDM, I had no problem cycling flash and foil, oh and with just max haste gear and haste spell, the recast on foil is low enough to full-time it. Which you want to do for the enmity as well.

Hmm, I see your point.

[Shibayama]

I disagree.

Fighting Arch-Ultima as RUN/WAR with agressor up, using foil still made 50% of the TP moves miss me. I understand that this could have included parry procs, but not all of them.

With refresh 2 from RDM, I had no problem cycling flash and foil, oh and with just max haste gear and haste spell, the recast on foil is low enough to full-time it. Which you want to do for the enmity as well.

Actually I have a question about that as an aspiring RUN myself - I've been taking the slow route (been shouting for 6 man parties and the like - just hit run 66 today) - today was probably one of the first times I felt like an actual tank really since I had enough things in my toolkit to help me survive - subbed blu for cocoon and with flash/foil and the like I really had no real issue keeping hate off the 2 drks and nuke happy blm in our party.

That being the case, I did feel like I did need an awful lot of support from the bard and Geo in the party to upkeep flash and foil - I'm a galka and I have a much smaller MP pool than a taru. At 99 do you see this being an issue even if I were to have a rdm assistant?

[Babekeke]

That being the case, I did feel like I did need an awful lot of support from the bard and Geo in the party to upkeep flash and foil - I'm a galka and I have a much smaller MP pool than a taru. At 99 do you see this being an issue even if I were to have a rdm assistant?

Generally not, though if you fully buff at the start of a fight you might need to wait a min to replenish some MP before jumping in.

Stoneskin, Aquaveil, {Embolden} Shell V, Phalanx will drop ~100 MP from your pool. Maybe you could counter this by using a +MP set for buffing before a fight. Your only issue then would be if you wanted to recast Shell V if the fight lasts longer than 20 mins.