Probably old topic, but... (RDM/PotD)

[Dualgunner]

Don't think anybody was classing rdm as a healer and lets face it people aren't robots they will make mistakes. Its nice to have a back up heal/rez when your healer dies and your tank needs heals. Sure in a perfect ffxiv community where everybody plays their class at peak rdm is "dps only" but lets be real that isn't going to happen.

RDM has no raise in potd which is what the topic is about. It's cure amounts to a cure 1 and that's really about it, and considering RDM has no dots it hurts more than any healer for using a gcd heal because its an absolute halt to damage output.

Rongway is absolutely right about RDM here.

[Maeka]

RDM has no raise in potd which is what the topic is about. It's cure amounts to a cure 1 and that's really about it, and considering RDM has no dots it hurts more than any healer for using a gcd heal because its an absolute halt to damage output.

Rongway is absolutely right about RDM here.

"Which is what the topic is about"? I never mentioned Verraise, and obviously I didn't because it's Lv64.

If you have 3x DPS and 1 RDM, Vercure is surprisingly awesome. It can easily keep people alive against most enemies in 51-100, and even against the bosses, it heals more than enough to sustain people as long as they're not standing in stupid.

Heck, you want a little story? Not PotD, but my FC and I accidentally Q'd up for The Vault and we forgot to bring a healer. It was me, a SAM, a DRK, and I forget what the 4th person was. No Healer.

Wanna know how far we got with JUST Vercure?

We got all the way up to Charibert. We couldn't kill Charibert (we got him down to 15% once, and 20% another time), but we managed to kill the previous two bosses and all the trash, with just 2 deaths on the 2nd boss. And those are dungeon mobs, not PotD mobs designed to be killed solo. I even have a screenshot to prove it:

https://steamcommunity.com/profiles/...78312437363285

[Dualgunner]

"Which is what the topic is about"? I never mentioned Verraise, and obviously I didn't because it's Lv64.

Did you read the post backwards or something? lol
Palace of the Dead is what the topic is about, and RDM has no verraise in it. The poster I quoted was talking about verraise.

If you have 3x DPS and 1 RDM, Vercure is surprisingly awesome. It can easily keep people alive against most enemies in 51-100, and even against the bosses, it heals more than enough to sustain people as long as they're not standing in stupid.

So can sustaining potions, and you also have to consider that PotD 1-100 is balanced with the idea in mind one can have all DPS, and no tanks or healers.

Heck, you want a little story? Not PotD, but my FC and I accidentally Q'd up for The Vault and we forgot to bring a healer. It was me, a SAM, a DRK, and I forget what the 4th person was. No Healer.

Wanna know how far we got with JUST Vercure?

We got all the way up to Charibert. We couldn't kill Charibert (we got him down to 15% once, and 20% another time), but we managed to kill the previous two bosses and all the trash, with just 2 deaths on the 2nd boss. And those are dungeon mobs, not PotD mobs designed to be killed solo. I even have a screenshot to prove it:

I mean, that's cool; it's always fun to have adventures like that. It doesn't change Vercure being about as powerful as Cure 1. In endgame, and in most dungeons, cure 1 is not used much at all. I mean, heck, you yourself admit Vercure couldn't keep everybody healed through Charibert.

None of this changes mine or Rongway's point that RDM is a DPS first, and serves its party better more often than not by killing mobs faster rather than healing, and that truly vercure's purpose is proccing dualcast in phase transitions.