Issues enjoying RDM

[Nighthawky2010]

I main RDM & love it but I do agree with the issues that were mentioned in this post. Some of my issues:
-Impact should have stayed as the single target proc like it was in SB. I hate it in this AOE rotation.
-AOE verThunder/verAreo should have been a different magic like verWater, verBlizzard, verQuake or something.
-RDM should have better dps & sacrificing it for verRaise is stupid. I see the my dps on a level 80 w/ 450 gear is just pathetic
-Single verThunder/ver Areo should have some kind of DOTs
-Reprise is seldom used. I just add it to my melee combo after fleche

[Fynlar]

As long as Scholar is stuck with Summoner, they're always going to have raise. They get the spell as an Arcanist.

That can easily be changed if they wanted to. You do realize how much fiddling they've done with SMN/SCH already in terms of who gets what from arcanist, right?

[Aomine1992]

Raise should have just been a role ability for casters in general but whatever lol

[JunseiKei]

[snip] RDM, on the other hand, feels a little....lackluster in comparison, considering. [snip] I'm not sure if I'm alone in this; it was honestly a little demoralizing to look at my upcoming skills from 70 onward and realize that I wouldn't really be playing the class any differently than I was in Stormblood until the very end, and that it'd only add an extra attack to the chain, at that. Anyone else feel the same way?

Personally, I think RDM's rotation is fine. SMN is complex, BLM is high skill ceiling not because of rotation (RDM surprisingly beats BLM on that front), but because of movement. Yes, it hasn't changed much. Not a lot of classes actually get their rotations changed. MNK, DRG, WHM, BRD, BLM* have basically been identical (* BLM's order of skills has changed, but if you played BLM in HW, SH BLM will still make a lot of sense).

If anything needs to be changed about RDM, it's their potencies. Verraise is not a utility. With as much as this game's mindset is DPS above all else, having to sacrifice a GCD to raise and lose a potential potency of 580 is not a gain. It's always a loss for the RDM. Their burst is outside of raid buffs, their embolden doesn't line up for them to benefit from either and it decays while other buffs do not while providing something more enticing. If the FFXIV team really wants to push Verraise as a utility, make it an oGCD CD that can be woven between casts. Embolden could use a buff - not much - maybe just a flat increase instead of this decay or lasts longer. Or, add a self-buff of white and black mana generation is increased; mainly to help RDM's opener line up with the rest of the party wide buffs going out.

Also, Reprise is RDM's Scath. You use it when you don't have procs, can't get a cast off, and can burn some white and black mana for some sort of additional DPS instead of having absolutely none.

[LaylaTsarra]

i think rdm needs some potency increases personally but I love the role and the healing/raises are part of why I play it. I also like the mobility.

[Alucard135]

i think rdm needs some potency increases personally but I love the role and the healing/raises are part of why I play it. I also like the mobility.

I thought they did announce they will buff RDM, but it turned out the information I read on FFXIV reddit discord was taken from an unofficial source.

RDM
- RDM's overall potency will increase and buffed, at a considerable amount.
- RDM's trait will also be buffed as well
- Devs do acknowledged that the proc is very RNG reliant, therefore Acceleration's specifications will be changed to proc up to 3 times and will not disappear until then. However its cooldown will be adjusted to be longer

[LaylaTsarra]

I thought they did announce they will buff RDM, but it turned out the information I read on FFXIV reddit discord was taken from an unofficial source.

RDM
- RDM's overall potency will increase and buffed, at a considerable amount.
- RDM's trait will also be buffed as well
- Devs do acknowledged that the proc is very RNG reliant, therefore Acceleration's specifications will be changed to proc up to 3 times and will not disappear until then. However its cooldown will be adjusted to be longer

Cool! Thank you... waiting for the release notes to see but either way I love playing RDM, it's a healers dps as far as I'm concerned. And who didn't love resbots in Eureka :P

[hynaku]

Then I'm going back to rdm for main if that's true about the buffs.

[linay]

One of the reasons I love RDM is its rotation. As far as I'm concerned, I hope they never change its rotation ever in any significant manner. Look at SMN. I loved that job at the end of Heavensward and even throughout Stormblood, but I don't like it in Shadowbringers because they changed it too much.

[SerLuke]

I’m still enjoying RDM, lots of fun.