Should there be a toggle allowing the cast of Rescue on someone?

[Rilifane]

Keep it, no toggle but for god's sake, make it more responsive.
Though I saved a couple of people with it, I often had to watch them die/ get hit by not deadly but seriously nasty stuff because Rescue was too slow to do anything. Both games I know that have a similiar skill made it so responsive, the target was almost instantly by my side. Perfect for quick saves.

[TonberiScholar]

I'd rather they just remove it. SE's server code isn't responsive enough for it.

I'd rather we had a more generally-useful Role skill. At this point I'd even just take PvP Protect, directly ported.

[Havenchild]

People are far exaggerating the misuse of this skill. As someone who has been on the recieving end of a troll from a friend, this misuse is far more uncommon than some are willing to admit here apparently and has far more benefits, from saving a dps whose lbing and is about to eat a mechanic, to saving a healer at a crucial heal point in a party.

I can't count the amount of times a rescue helped prevent someone from falling in Titania EX or dodging a Pure Light for example( likely to be a one shot in savage)

Complaining about another non issue. Forums been on a roll lately.

[Fynlar]

from saving a dps whose lbing and is about to eat a mechanic, to saving a healer and a crucial heal point in a party.

They should just remove the damn animation lock from everything that has animation locks, LBs included, instead of having us need this sort of ability to circumvent it.

[gumas]

i only got "rescued" several times in my playtime, and most of it is 50% for fun and 50% "good intention but no need" situation.

it does get wonky when you got rescued by someone, and if your latency is a bit high like me, it has this small rubber banding effect sometimes, its annoying. like you are not immediately pulled away, there is this 1-2 seconds delay before you got pulled, and even then sometimes in mid pull you got this "ragnarok online lag spike" which result in me still getting the aoe attack.

[AngelCheese77]

Title. Rescue has its uses, but sometimes it can do more harm than help for a player, such as interrupting casts or sending them into an AoE. While Arm's Length/Surecast allows for temporary protection against an unwanted use of the skill, it is not always up for situations that such might happen. Sorry if this has already been posted before.

Counterargument:
A toggle permanently disabling cast of Rescue on a given player could present the following problems: It could prevent the healer from saving certain players in danger, or make it harder to find and report those that abuse the skill.

I removed it from my hotbar after saving someone from dying to an AOE and they screamed at me for the rest of the dungeon. /shrug

[van_arn]

I removed it from my hotbar after saving someone from dying to an AOE and they screamed at me for the rest of the dungeon. /shrug

that just means you should've used it on them again

[Kirajah]

I personally hate it being used on me, since most times it is unneeded and trolling. Never been used to "save" me, most times a healer wanting to dictate how I tank. Examples I can list.

During a boss mechanic, they were stupid and misread the cast bar, and pulled me away from the boss instead of letting me stay in melee range, resulting in my being knocked back into damage attacks. Healers using it to dictate how much I should pull in a dungeon, by running ahead and then using rescue to rip me into the mobs, the healer being an idiot when could barely keep me up with just 6-8 mobs on me due to poor DPS in the group and now I have 20+, I died. A healer who trolled me and ripped me out from behind a rock to kill themselves and me in the process to troll.

I've yet to see it being used on me in a manner that is beneficial. So would love an option to get it removed from being used on me.

In Titania EX, there has been a few saved wipes because someone got hit by the knockback/fear she does, and the healer rescued them so they didn't fly/run off and we got that puddle.

Any fight with an arena you can fall off, Rescue can be extremely beneficial.

But like any ability, there is using it, and then there is using it well.

[CorbinDallas]

> intends to Surecast/Arm's Length the Tidal Wave/insert other knockback
> gets rescued before I use it
> server latency jank means I'm not at the healer in time before the attack snapshots
> dies anyway because I can't use an ability during the rescue travel time


Delete Rescue, I hate it. I know where to stand and when, and I've only ever seen it used as part of a legitimate strategy once (O12S). 99% of the time all it does is interrupt and annoy me, if not outright kill me. I understand the good intentions behind the ability, but God damn it's infuriating.

[Granyala]

Just remove it from the game.

As a healer I completely agree.
Either this or rework it to be able to use w/o such an insane delay, making it borderline russian roulette whether I can save a person or not.