Quote Originally Posted by SaberMaxwell View Post
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I ain't a RDM expert so thanks for clarifying. Still, I must remain with my base ground info. How does those impact you in any fight? I get SMN has more mobility but in order to taxe such mobility, I must see a reason to believe I'm gaining DPS from it and I just don't see that. If anything, you have to optimize more your melee combos and mobility than SMN. Great. I'll trade that any day for multiple raises on SMN.

Funny enough, SMN is terrible to optimize because there is no optimization. Just a monkas line to follow. It was only a matter of time until a fight like P2S make you sync Bahamut out of buff windows and point this glaring weakness. RDM isn't dealing with such issue during the downtime, they can just vercure to get a free quickcast.

Legitimately I'm trying to understand this big tax because Ranged Physical is a giant wildfire and only Bard is currently doing fine. I don't see Machinist being good unless they get some massive firepower boost.

To begin with, SMN new rotation looked nice and all on paper but it has massive issues and not to mention that now everyone that hates on SMN just says mobility is the reason and deal with it. It gives the job a giant identity crisis. Before potency buffs, I would rather have them have another look at the job because its just not working.