Originally Posted by IfritnoItazura  |
| BBQ did mention a RDM supports a party in part by curing, though one can complain he didn't give it enough weight. Overall, RDM is more flexible than BRD or COR, so I guess you can fault him for lack of emphasis on that, and called RDM's "balanced, reliable" instead of "flexible and adaptable to any situation"? Both points are minor quibbles, though. |
We could go further with it, but its just not worth it. To them, I'm biased, but they refuse to make a good case to support it. Obviously, experience in the three support classes is not sufficient qualification to these two, I've apparently missed some great detail about RDM... or they simply did not like how I worded it.
More often than not Murphie and Mhurron need someone else to post something they agree with rather than formulate a worthwhile and informative counterpoint. Then Murph thanks the hell out of them for thinking for him.
But I digress, we've gone far enough off-topic.
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| To ensure flowing exp chain, you'd want one monster in the queue by the time the current target dies. Each additional monster in queue gives additional--but diminishing--assurance of that flow, but in return adds additional--and increasing--amount of risk. |
That's pretty much how it works. From the day I started BRD pulling, I left at about 1/3rd HP to bring a mob back and sleep it, then PT moved on to that one. With mobs in ToA zones being as week as they are, a BRD or COR can stand to leave earlier than that and sleeps are way more reliable.
But in my stint in GC as BST, I saw many PTs pulling with BRD and trying to sleep multiple beetles and bats. Given the defense of beetles, it doesn't work so well. Beetles and bats are very susceptable to light based sleep, but no real need to take four at once.
People are really just to giddy on the whole BRD pulling trend, its trickled down too far. I know BRDs that have HNM pearls, but no /WHM sub. I know CORs that will not give up a DD slot to play pure support or pull. That's every bit as inflexible as a RDM that doesn't want to main heal. Then there's the WAR who refuse to tank and etc, etc.
Point is, people zero in on the aspect of the job the like and tend to ignore everything else. And its a common issue just about everywhere in the game.