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

[Krotoan]

Just a note. I've never had someone use this skill on me positively. It has been exclusively to put me where they want to put me (no stand here) or to mess with me. I've never been "saved" by it. In my experience it has been far more annoying than helpful.

[Mavrias]

Lemme toggle it. I'm so sick of healers dragging me out of my leylines to force me to stack with them on a stack marker when its unnecessary or healers using it to prevent me from pulling more when i'm tanking instead of using their words and just asking.

[SaberMaxwell]

If they are responsible for reviving you I'd say they should also get a say in preventing you from dying, considering it's their MP and cast time you're wasting when you die. Unless you have some sort of re-raise.

RDM and SMN rescue variant when?

Especially cuz arguably both are more liable to go OOM than healers for raising.

[Driavna]

People get super upset about it even if you use it for legitimate reasons. I stopped using it with my SCH outside Titania, and more often than not that player usually dies or do not arrive in time for mechanics.

[Averax]

Just a note. I've never had someone use this skill on me positively. It has been exclusively to put me where they want to put me (no stand here) or to mess with me. I've never been "saved" by it. In my experience it has been far more annoying than helpful.

I use it on ranged DPS who are floating out in orbit when there's a lot of healing pressure. If you think i'm gonna waste a GCD or an OGCD heal on someone who's standing out of range of medica/helios/succor you are mistaken. I'm gonna yank you in, and then get back to healing everyone.

It's either that or you die, so i'd consider that a positive use.

[Krotoan]

I use it on ranged DPS who are floating out in orbit when there's a lot of healing pressure. If you think i'm gonna waste a GCD or an OGCD heal on someone who's standing out of range of medica/helios/succor you are mistaken. I'm gonna yank you in, and then get back to healing everyone.

It's either that or you die, so i'd consider that a positive use.

To clarify: I understand there are positive uses, just in my experience I've never sampled them first hand. This is also probably because I actively try not to make other peoples jobs harder by staying near other DPS when possible and doing mechanics rather than thinking "oh.. this won't KILL me.. "

But for your average competent player, I'm venturing my experience is similar.

[Connor]

Honestly I’ve never been called out in all the times I use Rescue. Normally I either get a ‘thanks’ or ‘what did I miss for next time?’

Once while I was doing the Twinning, at the first boss, the two big aoe puddles were left right at the center of the platform. The tank and melee were at the absolute north, while the Black Mage was at the absolute south. Everyone was taking a ton of damage and it seemed silly to have to use Helios for the tank/melee/myself then give the Black Mage his own personal healing.

So I waited until their Ley Lines ran out, used Rescue, and suddenly I could Helios the actual part and kill the enemy quicker with the spare downtime for DPS. I worried that I’d get disembowelled for it, but nobody said anything, and we just continued the dungeon without issue

[Nyvara]

No, sometimes I just need a hug and will not be denied!

In fact the CD needs to be reduced on it so it can be used more often.

[Azbroolah]

I would be pretty sad if Rescue got removed, because I've had to use it in pretty much every single run of E2 that I've healed so far. DPS sees the timed aoe marker and IMMEDIATELY runs out of the stack which is going to pop first... Fortunately I can Rescue them back in.

Not to mention the actual uptime increases you get by using it intentionally. It's literally the only way to save a cohealer who uses the LB3 to save a run while an AoE is going down. It was also optimal to use in Tsukuyomi EX, to pull your cohealer back to the boss after they placed their far meteor. In my entire time playing this game I've never used Rescue to troll or seen a cohealer use it for trolling. Never seen it get used to troll when I queue up as DPS either. I'm a little curious how people are saying they see people using it to troll every single day.

[ElHeggunte]

I can’t stand Rescue. I’m sure it has its uses, but never have I had it used on me in a helpful manner.

I know the boss is casting a raid buster, I can see it. But if it’s a 10-second cast I’m not going to waste precious uptime by hiding for 8 seconds. You don’t need to Rescue me into safety when there’s more than half the cast to go.

I won’t even get into all the times I’ve been standing in a perfectly safe place channeling Anatman and the healers pull me closer to the group, making no difference in how much damage I take, but thoroughly wasting my CD.