RDM's Patch Notes?

[Fynlar]

You're the one who's insinuating - no, not even insinuating, outright stating - that everyone who felt RDM had MP issues were just forgetting to use Lucid.

Because every time I have run into an MP issue on RDM, it was always because I was flaking and forgetting to use this ability. Surprise, I'm not perfect. I can at least admit that this is my own error though, rather than trying to blame the game.

And given some of the arguments I've seen in this thread, such as how you shouldn't "have" to ride Lucid, that gives me the indication that... some people probably aren't riding Lucid (and are then complaining about having MP issues).

Dude. do you know how math works?

Lucid Dream up 100% of the time (on the dot) - Normal DPS Rotation = Deficit

Dude, do you know how reading works? I've been saying over and over, a defecit does not matter when fights either don't long enough for it to mean anything, or have forced downtime that allows for MP recovery anyway.

And no, I don't interrupt my casts/gcd just so I can make sure I'm using Lucid every 60s on the dot. That would be an example of poor play. I still wasn't so hard up for MP that the world ended if it meant using it every 61-65 seconds occasionally, because... I wasn't having consistent severe MP issues on RDM to begin with. Never was, not before SB2, and not after.

While at the same time, when people "insinuate" that if you're maximizing uptime then you'd notice the MP issues, you take that as "therefore you, Fynlar, aren't maximizing uptime if you don't see these issues." You've taken great umbrage at this.

Well yeah, because it's wrong.

Yet you see no irony in doing the same thing and making some pretty big assumptions about anyone who disagrees with YOUR assessment of the class. "Well based on my personal experience and mine alone, I didn't have MP issues, therefore the class doesn't have MP issues, you all must just be constantly playing with bads that need too much rezzing and/or not using Lucid properly."

The thing is, people do this all the time. Here's an example thread in the healer section. Not everyone in the thread is doing this, granted, but you won't have to look hard in said thread to find people attempting to invalidate/discredit the OP's experiences of having a difficult time healing since SB2 landed. Why? Because THEY didn't have any problems healing it (so therefore nobody else should be, right?)

And it all comes down to the same point I've been making -- as soon as someone experiences/shows something CAN be done, the claims of people who have a harder time doing the same thing (or outright insist that it can't be done) suddenly hold a lot less merit and are subject to a lot more scrutiny in the eyes of the populace (or apparently in this case, me). It is far more difficult to prove a negative.