Rescue — Wait, what?

[Elamys]

Rescue was intended to be a skill for quick thinking and acting healers to get people out of AoEs but it's so slow. By the time I myself get out of an AoE, identify someone who needs Rescued, target them, cast the skill, and the skill actually moves them (because of the lag time) they die. It's really clunky.

Priest's Leap of Faith in WoW isn't THAT much better but because it's truly instant, I can use it a lot more effectively. (Except then they added that stupid Neural Silencer that I had to ban from my raid group because literally turning off the ability for a healer to cast a spell on you no matter how "annoying" you think it is stupid.)

[Driskus]

Its nice for getting people to safety in Shinryu and Susano when it works at least. On the topic of delays, Rescue isn't the only ability with that problem unfortunately. Most abilities that have special effects seem to take up to several seconds to take effect. I see both Divine Benison and Surecast fail often because they have the same delay issue that Rescue does, even though the status applies immediately.

[Risvertasashi]

Now that we have 10 role slots - I'm finding a lot of use for Rescue in unplanned situations I wouldn't have thought I would otherwise see.

Not that I'm exactly using it every encounter or anything, and of course the delay still limits it. But sometimes you see the confused newbie that doesn't know where to go to avoid a large aoe or such and.... yoink, they're safe.

[Inelastic]

Its nice for getting people to safety in Shinryu and Susano when it works at least. On the topic of delays, Rescue isn't the only ability with that problem unfortunately. Most abilities that have special effects seem to take up to several seconds to take effect. I see both Divine Benison and Surecast fail often because they have the same delay issue that Rescue does, even though the status applies immediately.

That's part of the built-in delay the game has. I don't recall if it was there during 1.0, but it has been there since day 1 of 2.0. It's the same delay that makes you still get hit by an aoe even though you're out of it the marker before it goes off. I'm not sure why it's there. I have about the same ping to the FFXIV servers as I do to the WoW servers and I've never seen it in WoW like I do with FFXIV. Rescue still has it as well, but it also has an animation delay attached to it, same as Holy does.

[Kacho_Nacho]

The ability to move another player from harm is powerful. It's underappreciated.

But, like anything powerful, Rescue must be used wisely. Erakir gives some great examples.

[Sylvain]

When doing suzaku and the boss is close from dying (like, in less than 10s), I pull a dps in the whole

[RylaBee]

Rescue is good intended ability, that could be very usefull in some situations.

Unfortunately it's largely marred by notorious client-server lag of FFXIV.
Allegedly, there are people (maybe in Japan, or close to regional datacenters?) that have rly good pings and do not experience the lag - or not as accutely - but for the rest of us, Rescue is almost always too late, unless you can pre-plan it's use.

I have sometimes pulled ppl from Hashmal's charge patch in Raba, only to see that I have just pulled corpse to my feet.

[NocturniaUzuki]

As a healer main, I have been bringing Rescue since long before 4.4, and I've always found it useful for saving people who make mistakes, or in other more niche cases, using it to cheese mechanics.

However, it really does have a bad rep, and if it's not some heroic Rescue, you're likely to get flamed for it. Sometimes I pull someone at a terrible time and end up wiping the run, although this is quite rare. More commonly, I may cast it slightly too early to save that DPS that looks like he's about to get wrecked because of greed, then he flips out when he loses 1 GCD because I rescued him. It's a pug though, so I don't always trust my DPS. Especially when they're always dying.

[Jonnycbad]

It's great in static progression when one member just can't get the mechanic right and you can drag them to the safe spot for a few runs to show them where they need to be.

[TraLala]

Rescue can be such a life saver if you know upcoming mechanics. It has a slight delay which makes using it on the fly a bit difficult as said above :3 ! Only thing about it that I dislike (besides the delay ) is the crazy long recast timer!