Remove Rescue from the game.

[Voidmage]

Rescue is great.

I can't even count the number of times I used it to safe a sprout from things like Amon's one-hit-kill and I sometimes even got a "ty" in chat.
It's also something unique to a role in the game and if we take it away then what is even the point in having such skills. We can just go to pure combat rotations.

If you died because of rescue because it was too late then you probably would have died anyway and I say that as a BLM who loves to Aetherskate around.

I'll be completely blunt.
If such a skill is so annoying for some then they should just keep playing with the trusts because a misuse of a skill or simple mistake is normal when you play with other people. You will survive.
Almost no ones uses Rescue anyway and if they do it, most often then not it's successful in my experience or at least wouldn't have made a difference.

No, the skill doesn't need to be opt out, opt in or be removed.
You simply need to accept that in an MMO human error happens and I guarantee that those moments have been the absolute minority of your duty experiences.
If anything we need more skills in the game in an "interact with other players" fashion.
Bring back Manashift for example, let WAR kick someone away to safety and so on.

A successful Rescue is an awesome thing and shows that a healer was paying attention in the same vein a PLD successfully used Cover on a poor DPS facing a tankbuster.
These are the moments that actually make an MMO.

Sorry for the harsh words but I am honestly just annoyed by people wanting things removed or changed just for their personal preference, everyone else be damned.
That was the entire reason why we lost other things already and right now it seems like the devs are just looking for reasons to scrap down jobs even more.

[Arrius]

No don't remove it, it's fine I've used it to save many people out of position.

Just because a ability can be used incorrectly doesn't mean we should remove it. I mean healers and job design is already bland enough we don't need to prune niche but useful skills away.

Maybe the players being out of position should consider that being a lesson when getting hit by the mechanic, and not having the healer shore up their mistakes by saving them.

[Rithy255]

Maybe the players being out of position should consider that being a lesson when getting hit by the mechanic, and not having the healer shore up their mistakes by saving them.

Your a Healer your job is to literally fix mistakes, Even part of tanks jobs as the support role despite being budget dps actually should be using mitigations and cooldowns to save allies, Heck I like using cover once in a billion years to save a player from a mistake.

Rescue is fine, This game is a team based game, Healers and Tanks should have tools to help allies who make mistakes, Also when your recused out of a spot it's very clear a lot of the time that you were out of position.

[Xapapetsu]

It's not good. Most of the time it isn't going to save you. It almost certainly kills people more than it saves them due to misuse. Just remove it from the game, let me opt out of being rescued, or make it only work on people on your friend list or something. This skill is awful. Thanks for coming to my TED talk.

I love knowing I'm playing with a rescue healer, I turn it into a mind game where I try to figure out when they're going to try to rescue me to my death and make sure to surecast before they can do so. I used to do this a lot when I would be in my laylines and an AOE that wasn't going to kill me covered my laylines.

[Arrius]

Your a Healer your job is to literally fix mistakes

Fixing mistakes shouldn't be literally your job. You cover the overall damage the raid/encounter does, the while the rest should avoid taking extra damage or shore up their mistakes by themselves. It's a team effort, and the others should know where to be when mechanics are in play.

It might be different on patch week where everyone is on the same boat regarding experience, but when it's one from previous encounters/expansions that they keep running into, repeatedly, then that's on them.

Hence I pulled Rescue from my hotbar. Too much of a hassle.

[Xuled]

while we're at it can we remove blizzard from blm? it serves no purpose either

[0blivion]

Nah, I'll be real, greedy melees and casters deserve the rescue. I usually don't bother and just let them die if they intentionally take avoidable damage while no raidwide damage is coming in, though — unless they used personal mit, in which case they have my blessing to greed.

[Reimmi]

I'd rather not see fun abilities removed cause of a microscopic amount of bad actors tbh
The fun of this ability outweighs an occasional troll

[Jeeqbit]

I do agree it would be more useful if the response time on it was faster. There are definitely a good 33% of cases where I'm like "too late to use it, won't work if I do". Same with using damage reduction abilities on someone to save them.

But it's really about how fast you are yourself. If the poor processing and animation latency cause it not to work, you could in a lot of cases have pressed it earlier. In order to press it significantly earlier, I bind it to my mouse button, the same one I use for BLM's Aetherial Manipulation mouseover macro, because it makes it far, far quicker to use.

[Hastatus]

Oooh. We cancelling stuff we don't like. Get rid of tank enmity: I hate it that tanks can swap aggro and make me chase a boss all over the place; I also hate it when tanks don't make the boss face the way I want and can even spin them in a circle. Get rid of the hunt: every time I'm farming fates and a hunt train comes the fates get extra strong. Get rid of strategy boards, glamour plates, portraits, and chat bubbles: some are offensive; don't let people choose their own names for their characters while we're at it. Some glams are visually distracting or offensive: let's remove the whole glamour system. Lalafells are too small and look like minions sometimes...minions add too much clutter to the screen... || I like to resort to hyperbolic satire sometimes. FYI: my suggestions are the opposite of what I want. It's a game, not everything you dislike needs to be removed from everyone else. It's not our fault that you have never witnessed good uses of rescue: I have experienced, seen, and performed many nice rescues and experienced, seen, and performed very few bad rescues. Some skills are only as awesome as the person who employs them.