Rescue — Wait, what?

[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.