Shadowbringers RDM Wishlist

[Archwizard]

Why not rock the boat and produce the game's first TAoE DoT?

Pick a target, they explode every 3 seconds taking damage and dealing damage to all targets around them. Only one instance can be active at any time.

There you bypass the need to try and multi-DoT as well as get around any issues faced in ST situations. Whilst also, providing something new and unique instead of Shadow Flare 2.0.

Could then give it Mana per target hit so as to amplify Mana gain exponentially in AoE situations to provide more Moulinet combos. If needs be, put an upper cap on amount of targets will generate Mana to limit how crazy it can get on MASSIVE pulls or something.

That could work, though I admit I am weary about how passive such a component would be in spite of its substantial benefits to our AoE. Our AoE rotation would be essentially the same Scatter spam, just with DoT ticks giving nearly as much B/W Mana as our direct casts, if not more -- depending on the limits of the theoretical upper cap, with enough targets you could potentially cast the DoT once and just rake in Moulinets.

I still think the solution to our AoE rotation should involve having another spell or two we can weave with Scatter, if only to make it objectively less dull than the two buttons and a CD we have now.

As far as a Verfinisher goes... I think an AoE Verfinisher seems awkward. Given that AoE Mana generation is centred on filling up both types of Mana, which would really only lead into having a single Verfinisher. To which it would be kind of awkward trying to pick whether it should be a Black or White spell. Given RDM's ST rotation being appropriately balanced in terms of Black vs White spells.

It wouldn't be as hard as you think, all you have to do is pick a "Ver-" spell that's not within either the Black or White arsenals (like, say, Gravity, Ruin, Ultima...), or make some generic brand super-Scatter spell like Ardor or Alterna or "Ver-dict".