Embolden as Two Abilities

[Phafi]

Can Embolden be split into two actions, one for the self-magic buff and one for the party-physical buff? It feels really bad to give out the buff to the party when it won't do anything for the user's big hits in the melee combo as giving the physical buff to four people in the party is significantly more effective than giving the magic buff to self.

[ErryK]

Ability/Skill bloat. As an RDM main, no thanks.

[Phafi]

RDM doesn't even have that many buttons though, using Wbar with hotbar one only, I have four open slots after pot/lb, two fleche, three contre sixte, two emboldens and role actions i don't have set at the time.

[ErryK]

Even then, it's a bad idea. Because then you'd have people complaining about "Why aren't you using the AoE Embolden?"... thus leading into basically being back into one skill that benefits both the party and the user.

[Cenerae]

Just to throw it out there, but embolden does enhance your melee combo as long as it's the enchanted version and not the manaless one. Notice that the damage type for the enchanted melee strikes are specifically noted to being unaspected damage, which means they're magical not physical.

[Draxxion]

Snip.

This is very true and the confusion comes from the physical part not applying to what people think are physical attacks when the enhanced melee attacks are actually magic based.

The one thing I was hoping RDM eventually gets is something to help our caster brothers and sisters as a buff, but something that doesn't take away from what the other casters bring, example being contagion on SMN.

[Bacent]

Ability/Skill bloat. As an RDM main, no thanks.

But you can call one Embolden, and the other Embloaten