Are Blizzard II, and Freeze useful at all?

[ManuelBravo]

This isn't a realistic scenario in a party. If mobs are going after a healer, the healer should stand next to the tank so the tank can Flash/equivalent it off. DDs, BLMs especially, should be AoEing, which will break bind and sleep. Bind and sleep are not useful in a complete party, and any competent DD knows that spending GCDs on bind and sleep is just unnecessarily prolonging a run. If the tank or healer disconnects, fine, use CC so you can still kill things while they reconnect. But if everyone's there, every GCD should be a spent on a death spell.

Lets take your example, and use a scenario such as Eureka were mindless fools depends on others for survival by bring mobs that get caught up on aoe spells that BLM's / SUM / RDM / WHM are casting, not aware of their surroundings and do to their lack of common sense instead of running to have them reset enmity and expect others to clear them. Here is a perfect example where a BLM who has gathered enmity can use bind to get some lead way or save people who are being chased. Prepping mobs is another good example for unexpected pops and Elemental sprites. Blizzard II or Freeze can buy some time. So claiming not being a realistic scenario is false. A veteran healer can be expected to follow that rule, however kind of useless when people panic and run to tank while aoe is going off and are dead center or tank is not putting attention to their surroundings.

As for Death spell, it's great if it's not on CD, however on average can take up to 4-10 mobs to be back up depending on mob level and speed it's being killed averaging mobs levels 45-55. in Eureka.


Another example is when your doing activities such PotD or HoH. BLM is very useful using their support skills to buy time. Either on group or solo.

No offense you make a good point, however lets face reality unless you know your group members personally and all are on the same page random players can be somewhat lacking in the sharpness department. No offense to anyone.

Once again, no one likes being told how to play, however judging an action/spell without understanding it or giving a logic example of how it useless or unwilling to keep an open mind is just plain ignorance.