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    Galvuu's Avatar
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    Galveira Vorfeed
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    Pictomancer Lv 100
    Quote Originally Posted by Dualgunner View Post
    Run into a lot of DF RDMs that I beat as Dragoon of all things. So...you can't be braindead.

    As accurate as the aggro list can be...but I have more aggro than a lot of DF RDMs, and I use Diversion and Evasive.
    RDM is still a caster.
    You still need to follow your ABCs (always be casting) to do damage because you have no autos.
    If a melee dps presses one skill at random each 4 seconds, they still have their autos doing work (which is like, over 20% of a melees dps on average, right?). At absolute worst, a monk who's afk does like 20ish% of a decent monk's dps.
    RDM... not so much. Each second you do nothing, you really do nothing xD
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    Player Dualgunner's Avatar
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    Lilila Lila
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    Coeurl
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    Machinist Lv 80
    Quote Originally Posted by Galvuu View Post
    RDM is still a caster.
    You still need to follow your ABCs (always be casting) to do damage because you have no autos.
    If a melee dps presses one skill at random each 4 seconds, they still have their autos doing work (which is like, over 20% of a melees dps on average, right?). At absolute worst, a monk who's afk does like 20ish% of a decent monk's dps.
    RDM... not so much. Each second you do nothing, you really do nothing xD
    I know x3 my only point is, it's not *as* braindead as suggested of a job. You still see bad Red Mages, you still need a basic grasp of the mechanics.
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    Ebony Seraph
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    Gilgamesh
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    White Mage Lv 100
    Quote Originally Posted by Galvuu View Post
    RDM is still a caster.
    You still need to follow your ABCs (always be casting) to do damage because you have no autos.
    If a melee dps presses one skill at random each 4 seconds, they still have their autos doing work (which is like, over 20% of a melees dps on average, right?). At absolute worst, a monk who's afk does like 20ish% of a decent monk's dps.
    RDM... not so much. Each second you do nothing, you really do nothing xD
    Far from true. Auto's are ~30% of damage when you're playing effectively as monk. The amount of damage in that 30% is buffed by a constant uptime of GL3, Twin Snakes and Dragon Kick on the target. And is 30% of a larger whole of a monk who is using their shorten ~2second GCD on GL3, and hitting positionals with it. The said, the Monk you describe would be doing next to nothing.

    I don't understand the "monk is simple" comments. The rotation is locked, but getting into position is a constant dance above other jobs that need to move for mechanics. Monks are punished more heavily when they drop the constant attacking, when they aren't in position, and even when not attacking the decision making that goes into Form Shifting, Meditation, and Earth's Reply(rare, a skill we hate but has a use) is still substantial.
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    Last edited by EbonySeraphim; 07-19-2017 at 03:54 PM.