Remove role action Rescue : only a tool for trolling and poor gameplay

[Merrigan]

I am relieved that so many people are against this curious idea.

A small side note: I see a lot of people grumbling (sometimes rightly) about abusive or faulty rescues.Personally, most of the rescues I see on IG are well used, even if the timing isn't always right. Here, a small adjustment would indeed be welcome: make the skill instantaneous, and try to remove the.... (I don't know how to describe it) disorientation that comes right after, caused by our character automatically turning to the opposite side.

On the other hand: too many people assume that we are using the rescue in a wrong way. They don't even try to understand why we felt the need to press that key. It's rare to do it randomly, simply because you often get yelled at when you use it.

Typical example : the distance dps who is at the other end of the map, and that you bring back by force under your dome... Before seeing him jumping away again. *Facepalm* Oh, joy : another GCD that goes up in smoke and twice as much work for the mass healing phases.

From all the healers who use this ability wisely: we're trying to help you. Stay where I've placed you. Please.

[hynaku]

Seen it used more times getting you killed than helping you. They use rescue pull you a cross aoe circle boom your dead. Also seen them use it on a tank durning titan ex just for the healer to be hit by landslide and take out both. Pretty sure we did just fine in 2.0 and 3.0 before it ever existed.

[Kandraxx]

It’s a poor copy of WoW priest’s leap of faith, if it didn’t have like 2 seconds lag when using it it’d maybe would even be worth a slot on your bar.

Another thing is, in WoW it has a clear visual effect, you instantly know what’s going on when a priest pulls you, but in FF this is not the case as it just drags you across the room so you’re left even more clueless if you don’t know what’s you’re doing in a boss fight.

[Mika_Zahard]

Maybe you should have waited for the tank to take all the aggro before you pulled? Looks like its ur fault.

[Bsrking5]

Alright, I actually have had it now. If you can't use rescue responsibly, don't use it. Please and thank you. I am near convinced now that it actually does need to be removed. Not there yet, but the more healers keep either pulling me into mechanics, or pulling me out of nothing, I am getting closer and closer to that conclusion. I appreciate the thought, but stop it.

You dirty necro, let troll post die.

[SturmChurro]

You dirty necro, let troll post die.

Literally. How. Many. Times. Do I have to have this conversation..

Are you serious now? Why should I make a new thread every single time I want to post something that pertains to a previous thread. Ridiculous.

You literally can't win. (...) What's the alternative? Creating a new thread every other week or month, instead of keeping posts or discussion in singular large thread(s) or megathreads?

All of the time people complaining on these forums to "keep things to a single thread", but when you use that thread for relevant discussion, this is what you get! Sick of it.

I have been experiencing bad rescues more and more lately, and instead of being a minor annoyance, it has started to become a problem. Hence I posted in a thread pertaining to rescue.

[ZedxKayn]

Rescue should be opt in or opt out. I get really annoyed when random healers rescue me thinking they know better. (99% of the time, they don't.)

[Penthea]

Rescue should be opt in or opt out. I get really annoyed when random healers rescue me thinking they know better. (99% of the time, they don't.)

In pugs I have only been rescued into aoes that killed me. Only in premade groups has it ever been used to save me. Rescue is a potentially great tool but it's often intentionally misused. I'm very on the fence about it because of this.

[Xylira]

I wouldn't go so far as to say that rescue should be removed, but it absolute can and does get used to harass other players, and it does have some usability issues aside from it. I've seen rescue abused or misused more often than I've seen it used correctly. Twice I've experienced a healer, each time in an alliance raid for some reason, deciding they wanted to try and get me killed in an AOE by rescuing me into it. Aside from that I've had failed rescues happen more than a rescue that's actually helped me. Which is likely due to the server not registering your new location until after the rescue yank animation plays out. Then again, that delay actually saved me from dying one of those times where a healer was trying to kill me with it, so I guess I can't be too critical about it.

[Themarvin]

Instead of wasting time here report them for harrashment, also it is very rude of you to run ahead like that, and honestly you are not doing anything good either.

Such Behaviour belong to a game we used to know ad World of WarCraft.