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Yes, I did it last night.
Of course it was uber, why else would I post it.
No, you can't be like me. There can only be one Renarudo >.>. Stop asking.
(Long Post on my observations of last night)
Ok, seriously, haha, RDM/PLD is fsking fanTASTIC in exp. Well, I guess, honestly, it's situational, but the situation was perfect:
I get invited to a PT, the setup at the moment was PLD/WAR THF/NIN RNG/NIN BLM/RDM. So I add myself as RDM and depending on setup, if we got WHM main, I was gonna sub BLM. Or if no WHM was available, I was gonna sub WHM and have another RDM handle enfeebs. It was JP Prime, so invites were real hard to come by, and I even said have a NIN enfeeble if need be. . . But regardless, I'd need someone to cover slack I couldn't cover by me main healing a PLD.
I say this because we planned on going to Lufaise, and those mobs hit hard and hit often. Anyway, we were trying to find members for an hour (I was fishing by Airships, so I was keeping track of time, lol) and I decided to get a little bold.
I told the PLD to sub NIN, and I asked Grendal if he could come as BRD. So then once that was settled, I subbed PLD.
I'm stating this to point out that I feel RDM/PLD works where:
-You can safely sacrifice Curaga, status heals and DS in exchange for Flash and Auto Refresh.
In a pt where all the DDs have shadows, Curaga isn't a big issue, especially on Decos. I'd usually Curaga twice after Whirl of Rage, meaning 120 MP, so with Auto Refresh, Refresh and Ballads going off, 3 Cure IIIs are about the same cost. So for all intents and purposes, I lost nothing by subbing PLD (except 60 MP, but that's the cost of Curaga, which I wasn't missing anyway. . .)
So the PLD basically couldn't rely on voke, but it was ok, because he had like 4 JAs and Flash spam (I was hasting him), in addition to Shadows, so it worked well. He also did 600 (avg) Vorpal blades using Company Sword + Joyeuse -.-;;
Despite the 3 Refreshes, the fact that I was enfeebling because lack of NIN, me main healing and Hasting the tank, I only needed to Convert every 25 or so mins. We got about 7k/hr exp in Sky.
With a PLD tank and a BLM.
So what happened? Well, Kills were faster, because Whirl of Rage not only does damage, it stuns DDs, making them miss hits or critical WSs for chains. Often when I flashed before WoR, Only one shadow would be hit, or they'd evade completely. This in itself GREATLY justified the 25MP Cost.
The only "tough" part of the pt was holding my finger on my Flash macro, waiting for the TP move to activate and Refresh was coming up. But regardless, Grendal did a great job Ballading, and the PT was actually much more fun than a lot of Deco pts i'd have been in.
I think this shows that if the mages and the melee actually work together the way my pt demonstrated, even BLMs and PLDs can still have jobs. In any case, Deco weapons are never camped, and there are a ton of PLDs that don't have parties cause Melee is all the rage.
Time for Renarudo to show some Love.
So YEAH! All RDMs, raise PLD as a sub, it's awsome. 5/5
(I'm sure I have grammar/spelling errors and I'll come back to edit this later >.<
Oh well, time to exp. I'm 1.7k away from cap
)
Of course it was uber, why else would I post it.
No, you can't be like me. There can only be one Renarudo >.>. Stop asking.
(Long Post on my observations of last night)
Ok, seriously, haha, RDM/PLD is fsking fanTASTIC in exp. Well, I guess, honestly, it's situational, but the situation was perfect:
I get invited to a PT, the setup at the moment was PLD/WAR THF/NIN RNG/NIN BLM/RDM. So I add myself as RDM and depending on setup, if we got WHM main, I was gonna sub BLM. Or if no WHM was available, I was gonna sub WHM and have another RDM handle enfeebs. It was JP Prime, so invites were real hard to come by, and I even said have a NIN enfeeble if need be. . . But regardless, I'd need someone to cover slack I couldn't cover by me main healing a PLD.
I say this because we planned on going to Lufaise, and those mobs hit hard and hit often. Anyway, we were trying to find members for an hour (I was fishing by Airships, so I was keeping track of time, lol) and I decided to get a little bold.
I told the PLD to sub NIN, and I asked Grendal if he could come as BRD. So then once that was settled, I subbed PLD.
I'm stating this to point out that I feel RDM/PLD works where:
-You can safely sacrifice Curaga, status heals and DS in exchange for Flash and Auto Refresh.
In a pt where all the DDs have shadows, Curaga isn't a big issue, especially on Decos. I'd usually Curaga twice after Whirl of Rage, meaning 120 MP, so with Auto Refresh, Refresh and Ballads going off, 3 Cure IIIs are about the same cost. So for all intents and purposes, I lost nothing by subbing PLD (except 60 MP, but that's the cost of Curaga, which I wasn't missing anyway. . .)
So the PLD basically couldn't rely on voke, but it was ok, because he had like 4 JAs and Flash spam (I was hasting him), in addition to Shadows, so it worked well. He also did 600 (avg) Vorpal blades using Company Sword + Joyeuse -.-;;
Despite the 3 Refreshes, the fact that I was enfeebling because lack of NIN, me main healing and Hasting the tank, I only needed to Convert every 25 or so mins. We got about 7k/hr exp in Sky.
With a PLD tank and a BLM.
So what happened? Well, Kills were faster, because Whirl of Rage not only does damage, it stuns DDs, making them miss hits or critical WSs for chains. Often when I flashed before WoR, Only one shadow would be hit, or they'd evade completely. This in itself GREATLY justified the 25MP Cost.
The only "tough" part of the pt was holding my finger on my Flash macro, waiting for the TP move to activate and Refresh was coming up. But regardless, Grendal did a great job Ballading, and the PT was actually much more fun than a lot of Deco pts i'd have been in.
I think this shows that if the mages and the melee actually work together the way my pt demonstrated, even BLMs and PLDs can still have jobs. In any case, Deco weapons are never camped, and there are a ton of PLDs that don't have parties cause Melee is all the rage.
Time for Renarudo to show some Love.
So YEAH! All RDMs, raise PLD as a sub, it's awsome. 5/5
(I'm sure I have grammar/spelling errors and I'll come back to edit this later >.<
Oh well, time to exp. I'm 1.7k away from cap
)
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