The state of DPS and why I both love and hate RDM

[Lelila38]

Not sure what you're getting at here, Embolden increases physical damage dealt by party members that receive the buff.

Are you saying that you raid with 6 other players that benefit from an increase in physical damage? (2 tanks, 3 melee/mch/brd, and an auto-attacking healer?)

Rdm himself has a physical component as well, they do benefit from their own buff. Mine might only be lv66 yet, but I was paying attention to that specifically, since people keep saying all Rdm attacks are magical. The rapier skills, even the enchanted ones, do more dmg when embolden is active (or I had some very serious rng on those moves).

edit: I looked it up and it specifically states increases own dps and physical dps of party members, so it buffs self, melee and tanks. In a group meta where most parties only assign 1 caster slot, that's 6/8. In addition the casters are the ones who got screwed over again, as they lost both, raging strikes and Foe requiem and have effectively nothing left to buff their magic dps.

[Nezerius]

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Well yea, Embolden also buffs the RDM's magical damage, but that's the personal part of that CD, which has nothing to do with the utility part of it (which you seem to be talking about).