Quote Originally Posted by Hyrist View Post
We agree on that point but this isn't the argument. The argument is the willingness to use a skill when the situation calls for it and your insistence that a BLM will make better use of the MP and OGCD.

You don't owe FFXI's refresh bots anything, you do owe your teammates your co-operation if you wish to remain that. Therefore, if the situation calls for you to mana shift, you manashift. It's that simple. The lack of understanding of raid DPS vs player DPS and the capacity of skills like manashift to save a raid or push..
And if helping another player results in a net loss you hurt your raid more by helping them.

keep in mind this whole argument was under the assumption of the live steams cast times, not the updated ones, blm wouldve had to lose thunder (390 pot) foul (685 pot) and 1 fire 4 (481) i was under the assumption that blm would lose 1556+ potency if we were forced to help them which would have been damaging to a degree for what appears to be a 97 bonus to rdm.

But again like i said a post back, my data is old an incorrect, we have enough time to get our full damage + give rdm 3k worth then im all for it, if at any time rdm and the healer needs help ill choose the healer, if at any time helping rdm would become a net loss (Transferring during AF3/Bad sever ticks/ 30% weakeness) i will not help rdm.

that was what i was going off of and I was wrong which i admitted to.