Remove Rescue from the game.

[StarRosie]

Man, I won't say "This is the main reason." but I am noticing (and chuckling at) most of the folks coming to the defense of Rescue are WHM > WHM > WHM > SCH > AST > WHM> WHM > WHM. And I get why. I play AST to heal and have used Rescue to bail folks out of death. It IS a useful skill. But then there's my other side of the coin. My main DPS job is BLM. Has been since HW. And I've said it once on the forums, I will say it a thousand more times. The amount of times I've been successfully rescued vs Died because the healer thought they knew better? The former I can count on two hands. The latter I would need to get a chalk board and start tallying. There was a period of time, I had a macro that activated manaward and surecast. Cause I knew two things...One, I can greed for DPS here and survive comfortably. And two, the healer is gonna try to Rescue.

One of the core things for me, and why even as someone who has used it successfully and been thanked for using it. Yadayadayada. I still advocate for its removal or a change. It is a button that takes a player's control and autonomy away. This just shouldn't be allowed. It is jarring, disorienting at times. Rhythm breaking. It could mess up your rotations or buff windows. I've lost enochian due to it (This could be extra frustrating because there was a time when Enochian was a button with a 30 sec CD and if a rescue got me killed right after using enochian? OH BOY I GOT LIVID!), I've missed out on Fell Cleaves during Inner Release back when it was just a window of time and not stacks. It just shouldn't exist in PvE. There are plenty of yoinks in PVP but, that's fine. That's PVP. But I firmly believe that it should either be removed or changed to something that ISN'T a yoink. Let it give someone a hefty shield or a huge pile of DR for a couple seconds. Just, anything but the yoink.

I'm also going to put here, this is just one of those "I ain't budging." things. I've flip flopped a few times in the past, thought on it, but I've been around long enough and dealt with it long enough that my thoughts have solidified. It just shouldn't exist the way it does now. And I'm pretty firm on that stance.