He doesn't do anything but dynamis and abyssea. So yeah, WS isnt do AS much (will still do something and hes killing pretty slowly if he isnt using it) so anything where it really does matter (New dynamis NMs, Voidwatch) he really has no idea and just goes "oh well I heard this so Im going to make this up and say its true)
Remember, RDM can do 80% of what a real DD can do while holding a Refresh/Haste Cycle, curing, debuffing the mobs, and pulling. If snivel is only ever casts Dia III and Haste on himself of course his CDCs will average 2k higher than mathematically possible. He isn't wasting time doing all that other stuff, and the effort gets turned into extra damage.
Possibly, but I really do hate those people so much.
And my nomination for newest dumbfuck of the month goes to this fella,
http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxi/threads/16536-Wtf-SE
Added a screenie of my contribution to the conversation.
Someone removed fucking but 'another drk qqing' still stands. Bwavo.
while we fed spoon get Scarlet Delirium??
ahahahahahhahahaha
"Well, we had the Death in the form of Odin first, on a two hour timer and then you got it on an additional effect proc..."Originally Posted by another OF loldrk
"SHUT UP. MY DEATH AND YOUR DEATH ARE TOTALLY DIFFERENT BECAUSE YOURS IS NAMED ODIN AND MINE'S NOT. HOW WOULD YOU LIKE ME TO GET YOUR TWO-HOUR DEATH."
God that guy is whiny.
Edit: Iunno why, but I found this guy's FFXIAH comment amusing:
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Me trying to reason with him.
That's cold, Bork. xD
Also I really hate Mala some days. When they're not dropping complaints about lolSpirits, they're instead saying that SMN AF3+2 sucks because it'd suck on BST:
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Wait, seriously? No other job would think Smn Stats are good? Are they fucking high?
Already tore their "argument" apart, I'd imagine so. Normally it'd be harder to think of a good rebuttal but this was too easy. =\
I love Almace, and DD on RDM is fun, but I don't fool myself into believing it's going to match any other legit DD even without Empy. It's a nice toy for RDM, and it transforms BLU and PLD to a whole other level. Those Official Forum "melee rdm's" make the rest of us look bad.
SMN AF3+2 combined with /SCH are incredibly useful and self-sufficient now even outside of Abyssea, what are they smoking?
But it doesn't make spirits any better! Surely that's what all SMNs desire and require, isn't it?
The only spirits I use are Light Spirit for buffing pre-battle if I'm in the outside party (I go into the NPC menu for the Planar Rift, for example, which makes it so perp doesn't count down but Light Spirit timer still goes until it casts on you), and otherwise they're there for Siphon. Rarely I might toss out an elemental one to help proc magic weaknesses... if they ever actually cast something beside low-level enfeebles...
Malamasala (aka Alla's Mellowy) is a notorious whiner about anything and everything SMN. If it's not spirits, it's gear. If it's not gear, it's bloodpacts, either recast or effect. If it's not bloodpacts, it's spirits. Hell, there may have even been some melee in there at some point. Point is, he's a childish dumbass who will only keep raising hell until SMN is either OP or deleted from the game.
In terms of what he's smoking, I'd think it was a mix of nostalgia from the SMNs of Final Fantasy Past, arrogance, lack of forethought about the balance of the job, and possibly a personal sense of crusade, since this shit's been going on for years.
For Mala, Atomos's 2-hour should be a giant troll face that gives him the finger then casts Death on him, just because of his incessant proclivity to never let shit go and be satisfied with any bone at all SE throws at SMN.