Please nerf RDM!

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Originally Posted by Nezia

Btw, I just agreed that RDM was in need of a minor nerf, but then I found out about the mana glitch, and... Who knows how flawed logs are thanks to that?

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If you could, what is the mana glitch?

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Originally Posted by ADVSS

If you could, what is the mana glitch?

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I'm curious as well. I haven't noticed any glitches regarding my mana, I just am special and like to fit two verfinishers into one embolden through clever use of swiftcast and accel to break free of the 100/100 penalty.

Its a bug that allows to do the enhanced melee combo at a certain points of the mana bar without having to be 80/80 allowing a rdm to exploit that to use the enhanced melee combo+ finisher more often than it should be, The top ff logs of rdm are most probably upped more than they should due to that

Hm...I guess I'd have to see it happen to understand. Though if this is frequent and rampant, I can see it wreaking some havoc on the logs.

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Originally Posted by Bhearil

Its a bug that allows to do the enhanced melee combo at a certain points of the mana bar without having to be 80/80 allowing a rdm to exploit that to use the enhanced melee combo+ finisher more often than it should be, The top ff logs of rdm are most probably upped more than they should due to that

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I havent seen this work at all is there a specific black/white ration on the gauge that this happens? oh pure 80/80 bit they dont gain the effect of free verstone.verfire afterwards right?

So, I believe the Live Letter just confirmed no changes to RDM, which is absolute bs IMO

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Originally Posted by Dualgunner

Hm...I guess I'd have to see it happen to understand. Though if this is frequent and rampant, I can see it wreaking some havoc on the logs.

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Essentially, the "bug" is that being unbalanced (i.e. |BM-WM|>30) doesn't just halve mana gain it also halves the mana costs of RDM's enchanted weaponskills for whichever of 2 kinds of mana is lower. This allows for discounted melee chains and therefore more melee chains overall over the course of a fight.

I don't know where people came out on the value of seeking to exploit this. I can see that you might want to do it in the opener, but not sure about thereafter.

If you want to have a look at some top parses, the RDM needs to hit some fairly specific mana values to exploit the bug. Off the top of my head, 65-69/96-100 for a discounted Enchanted Riposte and 52-54/98-100 for a discount on Enchanted Zwerchhau as well.

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Originally Posted by Core1019

So, I believe the Live Letter just confirmed no changes to RDM, which is absolute bs IMO

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Nerfing Vercure because of blms and SMNs crying that Rdm can't have potent utility and high dps. Well you're getting your wish.

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Originally Posted by Core1019

So, I believe the Live Letter just confirmed no changes to RDM, which is absolute bs IMO

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Same with SAM. And that's how it should be really.

Just the other classes should be brought up to par with these 2. Which is what they seem to be trying to do.

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Originally Posted by Core1019

So, I believe the Live Letter just confirmed no changes to RDM, which is absolute bs IMO

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Also:

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A5. One of the main concepts of FFXIV is that “when playing a job, you experience the uniqueness of that job.”
Due to this, there is a difference in difficulty between the jobs, and it used to be that higher difficulty meant more DPS. We will be scaling down this factor.

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http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...13#post4303113

TL;DR: Don't bother playing more difficult jobs. You don't get rewarded with higher performance, you only get more opportunities to mess up and perform worse as a result.