RDM's Patch Notes?

[Fynlar]

Just because it only restores MP is not reason enough that it has to be used on cooldown. you claiming it has to be used on cooldown is just another "Just Because" reason.

I don't really care if you use it on cooldown or not. But because RDM, according to seemingly most people, has crippling MP issues, you might find it useful if you used an ability solely designed to give you MP as often as you could. And if you aren't, you're probably not in the best position to be speaking/complaining about said crippling MP issues.





out of posts, lalala

HAD not has, that's why they changed it. and yes, i did use it. but i found it to be a problem because when people died i had nothing else to use for MP because i already used the only thing that existed.

Well I mean, as long as you aren't letting your MP get back up to full with it, you weren't ever "wasting" Lucid. Hanging on to it until your MP already got low is a prime example of not using it as ideally as you could be. Same deal with melees who didn't use Invigorate until their TP already bottomed out.

oh and you know where i found this to be the biggest problem before they patched it? S Ranks and World FATEs, people die a lot.

If you really feel like playing the res mage (and you know beforehand that it will be needed), it's sometimes best to not even engage the enemy until the end to get credit (assuming you have a party to work on getting the gold rating for you), simply so your MP regenerates a ton faster from not being in combat. I did this all the time in Eureka, mainly against Pazuzu (I never really went into the later zones)

Why do you assume he was wasting LD or not using optimally?

Sigh, because like I've said over and over in this topic, the times I've had MP problems were when I've forgotten to use Lucid at all; in other words, not using Lucid optimally. Also, based on the comments I've been seeing in this thread (such as how we shouldn't "have" to use Lucid as often as we can), that indicates to me that people aren't using it as often as they can. How often will you make me repeat this before it sinks in for you? Having to go back and edit posts is a real drag, you know.

Also, your Invigorate example is as super bad because you would need Invigorate only during AoE rotation

That's not always been true, particularly before SB. Already mentioned it in this topic, but I've ran out of TP many times on NIN and PLD (the two melee classes I actually played the most), even when not AoEing on NIN (and PLD had no AoE yet).