Phoenix down should be combat ready!

[basketofseals]

Or buy them from MB with 14 gil ...

You don't see the annoying part of doing that every wipe, or people withholding their phoenix downs because they don't want to be expected to go buy another?

Can you imagine if all your gear broke after wipe and you had to leave to repair it?

[LineageRazor]

Do bear in mind the fact that if they were this useful, they'd probably sell for a lot more than 14 til on the Marketboards...

Seriously, though, given the number of times I've seen a group biff a raid mechanic and everyone dies except for the tanks, a combat-ready phoenix down could conceivably allow the group to recover from even that - and that is exactly why I think this will never happen. SE WANTS those failed mechanics to mean the end of the fight. They don't ever want to see a situation where a tricky mechanic can be cheesed just by letting it happen, and having the surviving tanks reconstruct the group afterwards.

[Zojha]

SE WANTS those failed mechanics to mean the end of the fight.

So, uh... where's the problem in just killing the tanks as well...?

[SendohJin]

that's not a big issue if the cast time is long enough and can be interrupted.

i would like to see what World First raiders do with it. will they actually back out of the fight every time to restock and drive the price of them on the MB up to 6 digits or realize it's not a sane part of progression strategy.

[Shougun]

May cause balance issues but it would be nice. Or at least stack / not consume (maybe a special alchemist version is non-consumeable). Another thing to make them more useful would be that they remove sickness/raise you without sickness (but this would be important to be non-combat ready then). So I'd love to see a change to make them more interesting

[Lelila38]

Completely agreed. Before Potd came out and gave it at least some use I used to just discard them, as they didnt even have marketboard value.

[Derio]

I agree, they should be able to be used in combat. After all they are a unique item with a 1 time use and you can only hold 1 at any given time.