Doesn't RDM's AoE Seem Backwards?

[Nicodemus_Mercy]

Shouldn't Scatter/Impact have been the faster cast and Veraero II and Verthunder II have been the higher potency long casts you use with dualcast to follow the same pattern as the single target rotation?

It just seems awkward having the "neutral" attack as the one you use with dualcast when we've been doing the opposite for single target for so long.

[Gallus]

Not a big deal, but yeah, it would make more sense.

[Nalien]

Pretty sure they reversed the order specifically to add a contrast between the AoE rotation and single target rotation.

[Kabooa]

I'd rather have Scatter Spam back.

[Nicodemus_Mercy]

Pretty sure they reversed the order specifically to add a contrast between the AoE rotation and single target rotation.

Well it certainly adds "contrast" I'll give you that.

[TankHunter678]

I hardly use Impact as a result of that. Reason being that since I am expected to get to 100/100 or at least 50/50 so I can use my melee AoE I find it better to just bounce between Veraero II/Verthunder II or double cast one and then double cast the other. I feel like I generate more mana doing that which leads to more melee aoe spam.

I honestly would rather the 1 button scatter spam with a chance at enhanced scatters giving 11/11 mana.

[Zyneste]

I hardly use Impact as a result of that. Reason being that since I am expected to get to 100/100 or at least 50/50 so I can use my melee AoE I find it better to just bounce between Veraero II/Verthunder II or double cast one and then double cast the other. I feel like I generate more mana doing that which leads to more melee aoe spam.

I honestly would rather the 1 button scatter spam with a chance at enhanced scatters giving 11/11 mana.

Owe please don't do that. Especially before level 78. Impact is 6 mana VS 7 and 100 to 120 potency more than VAII/VTII.

1 mana gain every cast does not make up for that 100-120 potency loss.

Personally, I feel impact is second because it's a beautiful animation.

Scorche is also the end of our ST rotation. Restricted red magic > Restricted B/W magic > unrestricted Red magic > unrestricted B/W magic.

If I had to make any alterations to the current AOE system, confined to not adding new skills, I would make Engagement AOE, to make up for it's limited use [beyond its current ST rotation manafiction race niche and platforms] and I'd have acceleration increase the mana gain of the next Impact, similar to enhanced scatter.

[Duskane]

I'd rather not go back to one button Aoe spam like healers

aoe in shb is 1000x better only DRG suffers having aoe learned later

[Archwizard]

Shouldn't Scatter/Impact have been the faster cast and Veraero II and Verthunder II have been the higher potency long casts you use with dualcast to follow the same pattern as the single target rotation?

It just seems awkward having the "neutral" attack as the one you use with dualcast when we've been doing the opposite for single target for so long.

I'm okay with it, honestly. It doesn't really affect anything either way, and as Nalien said, it was specifically reversed to differentiate it from the single-target rotation.
Plus I'd rather this than just a repetition with 1:1 substitutes, or just Scatter-spam for half a dungeon.

[TankHunter678]

Owe please don't do that. Especially before level 78. Impact is 6 mana VS 7 and 100 to 120 potency more than VAII/VTII.

1 mana gain every cast does not make up for that 100-120 potency loss.

Personally, I feel impact is second because it's a beautiful animation.

Scorche is also the end of our ST rotation. Restricted red magic > Restricted B/W magic > unrestricted Red magic > unrestricted B/W magic.

If I had to make any alterations to the current AOE system, confined to not adding new skills, I would make Engagement AOE, to make up for it's limited use [beyond its current ST rotation manafiction race niche and platforms] and I'd have acceleration increase the mana gain of the next Impact, similar to enhanced scatter.

Impact is 3/3 which means with spamming the 2 7s I get a 2 mana increase over using impact. 28 combined instead of 26 combined over 4 GCDs. Do I suffer in potency? Yeah. Though really I am just doing as much DPS as back in SB. I also get faster moulinet spam.

If I was to improve things as they are with just number tweaks I would make Impact give at minimum 4/4. Preferably 6/6 or 11/11 seeing how we have a higher mana target to hit for moulinet spam then before. As it is we generate mana really slowly in aoe situations when we need more mana then the ST rotation for optimal use. Those high proc chance enhanced scatters meant a lot in our old AoE buildup.