Shadowbringers RDM Wishlist

[Lauront]

So a Living Bomb / early Explosive Arrow ordeal? Wouldn't that be just as passive as the current spam, though? Such mechanics are also rather frustrating to use, like any other DoT, when enemy mobs don't have much TTK if allies decide to swap to it (the chance of which seems to increase with every DoT thereby wasteable...).

Wouldn't some manner of "detonate" mechanic help get around that, though? As in, triggering it to "detonate" at a discount of its total damage, still high enough to make it worth using in AoE contexts in the first place. The speed with which trash dies is frustrating for a lot of caster AoE rotations, tbh.

Still, given that the spell has hybrid ST/AOE uses, I think it's just being proposed as a component of a revised RDM AoE package, and not the final solution. I agree that you'd need to go further than that to make RDM AoE interesting.

With a possible third reason being to try and signify that BLM and WHM are more potent in their respective schools of magic compared to RDM that utilizes both. So that the RDM versions of these ancient magicks are only powerful enough to harm a single target.

Indeed. And whilst the potencies are higher than Flare/Holy, I believe this is a mechanical contrivance for rotational flow/impact and not intended to be seen as anything more than that, since both spells are essentially work arounds to re-create their BLM/WHM analogues.