Rostrum Pumps

[Susurrus]

Re: Rostrum Pumps

I have AF2 body, together with the hat, it is NICE when soloing as /NIN. Utsusemi Ichi is almost as fast as Ni normally.

[Karinya]

Re: Rostrum Pumps

yay well kinda related, I finally passed dynamis sandoria and will be able to go dynamis beaucedine with my LS next week now. Been waiting for 4 months to past this one place.

orz

my LS does dynamis like this... bas beauce xaca, san beauce xaca, win beauce xaca, jeuno beauce xaca, repeat. They only go once a week and whenever they do sandoria they do it when I can't go >.< Yay wait for me AF2 body.

Congratulations!

Fortunately (?) I joined my dynamis LS right as they had a major exodus of players (one of the HNMLS decided to withdraw en masse and start their own dynamis LS), so with a lot of new replacements, we've been doing cities all month. All I need now is Jeuno, which we're doing tonight (we ran out of time last time I went there, I hope we win this time). For the same reason, the first northlands run after the month of cities will probably be Beaucedine FTW, so all the new people can go to Xarcabard too.


Going back to the rostrum pumps, though - you have at least three Fast Cast traits by that level, four with your AF hat on. (Very few head items in the game are worth taking off the Warlock's Chapeau for - Warlock's+1, Duelist and sometimes Crimson Mask.) So what do you care if they have one? It won't make them a RDM. They still won't have much Fast Cast, Gravity or Dispel unless they sub RDM, and even then they won't have Convert or Refresh, or A ranked enfeebling magic with up to +30 from AF/AF2 alone.

Ninjas can't use them, either. Although I wonder if any of them solo as NIN/RDM... fast cast and cures would be nice, but I don't know if they measure up to evasion bonus or double attack.

[Icemage]

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...and MND for WHMs is pointless outside of enfeebling (healing spells are more dependant on Healing Magic anyway), but BRDs, who would be the only job I see utilizing Fast Cast, would miss out on important gear in slots that they need CHR in.

WHMs make excellent use of Fast Cast when it's available, especially at level 75 end-game activities, when that fraction of a second can mean the difference between hanging on in a fight or a dead tank. Personally I don't use my Rostrum Pumps most of the time, since I have Cure Clogs ( = Fast Cast +15% for Cure spells) as well as the equivalent of Fast Cast IV in Cure speed merits.

While WHMs don't often make use of the recast reduction (since there are simply so many Cure spells and Regen spells that if your timer on one isn't up you can use another), the casting time reduction is nice, especially for WHMs who haven't merited Cure speed.


Icemage

[DigitalisAkujin]

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Hehe looks like the RDMs are getting a little bit jealous. ^^

It looks SE wanted to give people the ability to have RDM as a sub job with more benefit but not overpower the RDMs. If you think about it giving RDMs another fast cast (along with the new Limbus equipment) would effectively allow RDMs to lower their spell casting time to somewhere around 45-55% of the full cast time. Thats kinda like WOW!

I have a pair of these and I must say BLMs benefit the most from them. BLMs have a general lack of INT feet gear with the exception of RSE Boots. AF1 is useless for nuking.

The fast cast also helps with claiming HNMs. ^^