Seeing Red - A Complete Red Mage Guide

[Draxxion]

You want to replace the next jolt with impact, not follow up with it.

Impact is basically jolt 3

Thank you for that. Still not high enough to have dealt with it. It would still most likely apply to this situation though that you don't want to delay Impact further. It would require testing.

[Shirolumi]

Does anyone agree that Impact seems a little redundant of a skill. Like they only gave it to us to make RDM "a little more complicated". Only 30 more potency and 1 more of each mana than Jolt II, but taking up another hotbar slot. Seems like they could've used that slot for something more fun and impactful to the job (pun intended) rather than what is essentially Jolt III.

[Rawrz]

Does anyone agree that Impact seems a little redundant of a skill. Like they only gave it to us to make RDM "a little more complicated". Only 30 more potency and 1 more of each mana than Jolt II, but taking up another hotbar slot. Seems like they could've used that slot for something more fun and impactful to the job (pun intended) rather than what is essentially Jolt III.

I like it. Impact is your second or third choice. A backup after stone and fire procs run dry.

[Hanmerreborn]

I like it. Impact is your second or third choice. A backup after stone and fire procs run dry.

Except it isn't. Its basically empowered jolt 2. If it's up it just takes the place of jolt 2. There's no "choice" about it. Arguing for impact to be a separate skill would be like making every empowered melee skill its own button.

[boredinbc]

Except it isn't. Its basically empowered jolt 2. If it's up it just takes the place of jolt 2. There's no "choice" about it. Arguing for impact to be a separate skill would be like making every empowered melee skill its own button.

They could actually share the same button and it wouldn't make a difference, right? In the priority list of spells to cast I would always want to cast Impact over Jolt 2, if I was able to and there were no Ver-ready procs available....

[Sarennie]

Thank you for that...It would still most likely apply to this situation though that you don't want to delay Impact further...

Honestly, the only time you'd want to prioritize Impact over Fire/Stone, is if Impact + Aero/Thunder will get you your melee phase two GCD's faster. That means one mana level is 77-79 (37-39), the other is 65-68 (25-28), and you don't have a Ver-ready proc for the lesser. Outside that, you're always going to be better off clearing out your Ver-ready procs first; Impact should be what you use to proc a dual cast for Aero/Thunder, and Jolt becomes your filler to proc dual cast and Impactful.