Quote Originally Posted by Alu79 View Post
Do people really believe that RDM is a mobile class? Pretty sure RDM is one of the least mobile classes, the proc only works if you hard cast a spell and then you have to use it immediately, not like you store the procs to use whenever. At best you can stutter step after every hard cast but you can't call stutter stepping mobility. BLM has actual mobility assisting CDs all on short timers as well as insta procs that they can hold for when forced to move and SMN has insta casts as well as DoTs rolling and pet skills and an insta cast CD, compared to RDMs 1 insta cast CD. Not gonna list their two instas as they are cast on CD and not held for the possibility of forced movement. I would prolly rank the casts something like SMN>BLM>RDM? SMN might lag behind BLM sometimes I think just based on where they are in the rotation? Any who just wanted to contest RDM mobility as a thing since it is so easy to believe misinformation.
What? Your definition of stutter stepping is strange. RDM get 3.5 full seconds of movement every 5s. Or put another way, RDM only have to spend 1.5s hard casting spells every 2 GCD. RDM don't do stutter stepping at all since they have 3.5 full seconds between every time they cast a spell. More if they use Swiftcast. As an example, their usual 3.5 mobility window is enough time to leap back with Disengagement with it's animation lock and still run back into melee range before the next GCD without losing any uptime. And if a RDM really needs to drop a GCD for whatever reason they have Enchanted Reprise which now is not that much of a dps loss as it was at the start of 5.0. This mobility is extremely consistent and doesn't suffer based on player skill since it's baked into the core RDM mechanic.

To compare, SMN has bursts of extreme mobility but also bursts of poor mobility where they do only have stutter stepping as an option. Their either the most mobile or the least mobile depending on where they are in their rotatuon.

Black Mage generally has very poor mobility but with several tools to give them situational on demand mobility. Their mobility is highly dependent on the skill of the user.