RDM Pet Peeves

[WishMaster3K]

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or you could set damage to appear on screen and not in the chat filter, so you don't miss out on certain things:

When I want to see my MB damage, or if another mage's enfeebles stick, it's kinda hard when I have the pt member or damage filters on. toy around with them. Just setting everything to screen only saves me a LOT of frames in Dynamis, and I don't have to sacrifice seeing whether or not sleep landed/wore.

[Aeni]

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I have to agree with tdh that most of my problems are usually with PLDs, but NINs are also a pain in the rear.

"Haste!"
"Hello? Haste {Can I have it?}{Yes, please}"

Umm ... last I checked, RDM don't get haste until 48 and since I'm the main healer in your party, if you're not nice, I can just drop out of party and hightail it back home.



Luckily, I never had any problems with the other mages. I guess I'm the first ever support mage that actually remembers to keep their mp pool up. Or they don't care.

[Balfree]

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My pet peeve is on myself >_>

I pride myself on Refresh duties, it's become very easy to recast refresh, i got the times all figured out ^^

But god.. Dispeling is the worst! I stab myself in the leg each time i miss a mob buff, needless to say i've got a very bleedy and perfurated limb. Crabs are the worst, they have 35235253 Buffs and they use it constantly >_<, any tips guys? >_>

[Aeni]

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But god.. Dispeling is the worst! I stab myself in the leg each time i miss a mob buff, needless to say i've got a very bleedy and perfurated limb. Crabs are the worst, they have 35235253 Buffs and they use it constantly >_<, any tips guys? >_>

Haven't fought robber crabs yet ... but in my experience, if crabs, beetles and crawlers are used to chain with higher level stuff (i.e., robbers for gobs in gustav, crawlers for hornflies in CN) then if the mob is going to die soon, I just leave it and either continue resting for MP or taking care of that refresh. If I can spare the time, I'll go dispel it, but more often than naught, a T++ mob should not be hard to hit or damage by a melee. If that's the case, you should shop around for a better party.

[Squerril]

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The best thing I could say is: keep your eyes glued to the screen.
I have everything filtered except my stuff (my casting, resists, etc), and then
"Special actions started on/by foes" and "Special action effect on/by foes" filters off (so I can see mob buff). Works good for me. Sometimes robbers can suck and spam buffs, but just gotta stick with it, also nice MP-gain Aspir if you sub blm.^^b

[FortMan]

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My pet peeve is on myself >_>

I pride myself on Refresh duties, it's become very easy to recast refresh, i got the times all figured out ^^

But god.. Dispeling is the worst! I stab myself in the leg each time i miss a mob buff, needless to say i've got a very bleedy and perfurated limb. Crabs are the worst, they have 35235253 Buffs and they use it constantly >_<, any tips guys? >_>

Well, not to mention that before chat filter tweak, chat filter did not distinguish between your PT's crab and your neighboring PT's crab, making "phantom dispel", quite common.

What I do is, instead of trying to rely on chat message alone, try to pick up on visual and audio cues as well. The buffs have quite unique animations and sounds. Hope this shuld help a bit.

[Balfree]

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Refreshing and Hasting duties are _usually_ a RDM's Job.
- Haste for 2-3 Melee, NIN needs haste constantly.
- Refresh for 2-3 Mages, PLD needs refresh cosntantly.
- Sub-Healer, most of the time i end up healing more than i should, but that's the whm's problem, too bad i'm the one taking shit.
- Magic Bursting, i pride myself on being able to do all this and still MBing, my only problem is dispelling

Thats already atleast 2x haste + atleast 3x refresh on a regular party setup, looking out for the buffs wearing is on its own a bit of a hassle even if you have most of the chat filtered, my problem is that all "<t> readies <skill>" and "<player> readies <skill>" are all the same color, i dont know how to change this, and most of the time the mob buff goes unnoticed, i mean... are you forced to look at the chatlog 100% of the time? it's a HASSLE, i want to look at the graphics and enjoy them,know what i mean? .. i also want to be able to look to my right to the tv for 2 seconds without losing a buff log because it went up too fast, things go by TOO fast on the chat log, even with the filters >_> only filters i have on are my own actions and the mob and PT skills and spells, filtered out all damage/miss/evade/etc.

Square needs to implement some more icons man, what's so complicated to add little icons on top of the mob's name, you would see the status that mob has but ONLY those you SEEN being used, like if you engage a monster who already has protect cast, you wouldnt see that when you targeted the mob.

Blah >_> so i dont have a chameleon's eyes, is that a pre-requesite to play this game now ; ;?

Double Post Edited:

What I do is, instead of trying to rely on chat message alone, try to pick up on visual and audio cues as well. The buffs have quite unique animations and sounds. Hope this shuld help a bit.

I end up doing this yep, but sometimes theres too many things going on x_x i should probably leave effects of MOB >> MOB and take off the PARTY >> MOB effects, good idea

[Last_Viper]

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smn wanted to do hastga and told em to let him do it..
so i got enough time/mp tm MB
the smn wanted to mb too.. ended up that i casted haste again ^^

dispelling whm mob types later is annoing.. but the good thing, silence = no more buffs, crabs can buff even with silence (i guess?!?! correct me if i`m wrong)

[WishMaster3K]

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Crabs buff through silence and ALL mage mobs suck. Aura weapons are my sworn enemy, they just suck all types of ass. BLM WHM and RDM mobs, I hate them. BLM mobs recover from silence quick and WHMs and RDMs love things like Haste and Protect.

[Khidir]

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I always haste myself before i refresh it gets the mages off my back and side note

galka's have so low mp as pld it seems like a waste refreshing someone with just 89 mp at 55 or was it 54? meh i forget so loong ago...

we had 2 smn main healing so refreshing him was a waste

[Taskmage]

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I do Dispel by sound.

You can filter damage and still see others' debuffs. I think that's Spells and Abilities started on/by Party. Putting damage on the screen instead of the log is a good idea, but I used to forget to switch that back when I'm main healing and want to see party damage in the log.

I haven't fought experience level weapons yet, but Antica blm and pld are the worst so far. Not only do they come with two or three buffs precast, but you have to keep them silenced, they have two or three buffing TP moves AND they're highly resistent to dark magic, so sometimes they just shrug off Dispel.

I only recently started using effects filters, mostly to take some burden off my poor old video card. So far I only have non-ally>>non-ally filtered. What do you use?

[Tirrock]

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I'm surprised that people changing gear while you're trying to cast something on them isn't on this list. It drives me nuts on my WHM when somebody changes gear all the time while they tank. (Like a PLD switching a bunch of gear to provoke, then switches back...just to switch again 30 seconds later.)

Dispelling doesn't seem that bad to me. Dispel's recast rate is so much better than finale. >< Sometimes I have to keep a mental tally on what buffs are on a monster while waiting for finale to come up again.

Square needs to implement some more icons man, what's so complicated to add little icons on top of the mob's name, you would see the status that mob has but ONLY those you SEEN being used, like if you engage a monster who already has protect cast, you wouldnt see that when you targeted the mob.

YES.

That or make a RDM only job trait (something post 37) where you can look at it and see all the buffs on it, even if you didn't see them casted. I don't think it would be too unbalancing, and it'd make for some better parties, since there wouldn't be any question on if there's a buff on it or not.

[Khidir]

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You have to watch bouncing hate at the start of a battle when fighting whm pld and esp rdm not to spam dispel ALWAYS SILENCE before spamming it since you will get so much uber hate! not good when you main heal as well....

ive only had like one or two dispel resist my entire rdm career to 55 that was once on a ghast in eldimene necropolis when doing my af hands a spriggan popped and killed me and meh friend and the second against an antican pld its so rare that i remember it

[Jei]

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in party i usually filter all damage except to myself. but keep effects starts/done by party/foe. that way I can see the monster's move and buff/debuff pretty easily.

[Omni]

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I have to agree with tdh that most of my problems are usually with PLDs, but NINs are also a pain in the rear.

"Haste!"
"Hello? Haste {Can I have it?}{Yes, please}"

Umm ... last I checked, RDM don't get haste until 48 and since I'm the main healer in your party, if you're not nice, I can just drop out of party and hightail it back home.



Luckily, I never had any problems with the other mages. I guess I'm the first ever support mage that actually remembers to keep their mp pool up. Or they don't care.

yea i can see myself being a pain in the rear. however, here is why.

utsusemi ni default timer is 45s > hasted 37s
utsusemi ichi default timer is 30s > hasted 24s? (i cant remember for some reason)

to be honest, if you can tell when i have haste and when i dont have haste in the thick of battle and for the times i dont, make sure you give me haste right before i cast utsusemi, i wouldnt really care if i had haste on 24/7.

that usually isnt the case since its pretty busy for you.
whenever i cast utsusemi, if i dont have haste on me at the time i finish casting, my timer jumps back to 45s. if you cast on me after i finish casting, it doesnt do anything for my current timer.

for the most part its not really a big deal, but if you are fighting challanging mobs for your level, that extra 8 seconds shaved off your timer can seem like an eternity when the mobs you are fighting have good accuracy against you.

i do understand that rdm doesnt get haste till 48. im mainly speaking of my experiences past that.