Best Convert strategy...

[Gman]

Originally posted by Ungerpurr
Granted, I'm only level 29 now on rdm, but I'd think the best use of convert would be every 10 minutes. No matter how little of your MP the PT is using on a regular basis, if your convert is available, you should be doing your damnedest to nuke or heal yourself near to out of MP so that you can convert. If you're not using convert every 10 minutes, you're wasting potential MP, imho.

Not really. What if you have a BRD? I'm usually sitting on 75% mana when a BRD is in PT. I even make myself nuker and/or 2nd nuker to contribute to damage, and I still wind up having tons of MP. A quick rest between pulls gets me back to full fairly easy while regaining 6mp/tick from refreshes.

Why use convert if I have 350/765mp then (as someone else mentioned) we get an add, then expend my mp pool helping heal, sleep, etc, then run out and be useless when I could have 765 mp waiting to be used.

You have to be smart about it.

[sushicide]

Most of the time I only convert before/during chain4, help heal and finish up the mob to save WHM & BLM's MP so they can kill the chain5 monster fast enough.