| Re: Are You Taking Your Meds?! I found echo drops kind of situationally useful. After awhile on Toramas with both WHM and SMN, I figured out hate and positioning enough that the stack of echos I carried around just gathered dust. I really only needed to worry about them if I was doing Anticans with a BLM who didn't understand aggro, or we were fighting imps in the Mire. Everything else was pretty easy to figure out a position/range to keep the drop need to a minimum.
That said, I beat Diabolos with almost 25 inventory slots completely filled with medicines for the CoP mission. I don't think I ended up using more than one or two meds the entire time, but I find most CoP BCs hard enough to reach/beat that I may as well just bulldozer it with meds so I'm sure we'll at least get close to winning in the end. I did the lvl 20 SMN battles the same way, full stock, less than half actually used.
The real medicine item I don't think any player should ever be without however is powders and oils. There's no excuse for not carrying at least a handful of each around with you. Sneak and Invis never fail to wear until you're standing directly next to that magic aggro mob and there's nowhere to run for recast.  | Originally Posted by Igor | | You know, I'll never forget my old dad. When these things would happen to him... the things he'd say to me. | | Originally Posted by Dr. Frankenstein | | What did he say? | | Originally Posted by Igor | | What the hell are you doing the bathroom all day and night. Why don't you get out of there and give someone else a chance? | |