Quote Originally Posted by Rongway View Post
Playing with an incomplete action set for many levels makes it really easy to develop bad habits. Good rotations are easier to learn with a complete action set.

The RDM NPC literally tells you how to Dualcast in the first combat quest.

In other words, hardcast a fast spell and then instant cast a slow spell.
Well that is actually what I did.

The problem is that's kinda vague. So you have to experiement with it yourself. It's not like BLM where they tell you outright to use Fire to do damage and Ice to do MP restore and then use Transpose to switch between them and walk you thought those parts. On top of that, its completely backwards doing Single Target vs AoE spells. Which of course takes another very non intuitive leap. Which is what made RDM so wonky to start with vs SMN back then.

I also disagree,

It is better to get the techniques one at a time as they fit together so you understand how they fit together, then you can start experimenting with what works best for you. You need to learn to crawl before you can walk. Case and point if you try BLM without every having learned those basics, and try to jump straight into Enochian, first of all you're likely going to be lost. Secondly, you have a better chance of developing bad habits if you don't even know the basics of how to run it and manage to figure it out anyway.

RDM though you had no choice, it was figure it out on the fly whether you wanted to or not.