Growing Delusions?

[Genosync]

And then watch as they don't have a fucking clue what in the hell you're talking about.

[Marcatil]

a competent rdm can melee and do thier job... trust me i've seen my damage save a party so please don't diss on melee'ing rdm's it's the ones who can't pull it off competently that piss me off cause they give all rdm melee's a bad name.

Fucking idiot, get your ass to the back and do your job the way it's meant. If you want to melee so bad, join a skillup group, go fucking solo, or play a job that is designed TO melee in an exp situation.

[Totien]

a competent rdm can melee and do thier job... trust me i've seen my damage save a party so please don't diss on melee'ing rdm's it's the ones who can't pull it off competently that piss me off cause they give all rdm melee's a bad name.

Additional flame post.

[Elcura]

a competent rdm can melee and do thier job... trust me i've seen my damage save a party so please don't diss on melee'ing rdm's it's the ones who can't pull it off competently that piss me off cause they give all rdm melee's a bad name.

Fucking idiot, get your ass to the back and do your job the way it's meant. If you want to melee so bad, join a skillup group, go fucking solo, or play a job that is designed TO melee in an exp situation.

I did this, and I never want to play RDM in EXP again. :D

[Akiro]

and yet we still havent done a mnk pt yet, quaa quaa

[Elcura]

I know all i've heard is your Ballad and March voice, GIVE ME MINUET BITCH! Quaa quaa.

[Amabire]

Lets not turn this into a RDM melee thread btw, because its a dead horse. Just dont do it.

8)

[Endo]

I usually send them a tell, I never say anything out in the open. I also try not to say "This is the way you do it", instead try to explain the reason that your way may work better.

Then again you could always run into the pld that would stand next to the mages during pulls. Orfeo would voke (set up sata) and the pld would still being standing next to me > >. I still was not mean at that point I just said party disbanding. I have come to the conclusion that it is sometimes not worth the waste of time to teach some people.

[Orfeo]

That paladin was horrible...

gogo dragoon tank..?

[Genosync]

We have a DRG in our LS that got owned by Ullikummi in less than 3 seconds because some RNG shadowbinded it on him. Full HP to none before you can blink.

I laughed my ass off.

[Orfeo]

lol i was drg/war first voking for our thf to sata onto the paladin. The paladin would run up and stand with the mages for some reason between pulls, then spend about 1 minute getting behind the orcs (monastaic cavern). Then he would do everything in his power to pull hate without getting the SATA.

Eventually I said fuck you guys and stopped voking >.>;;

[Flash]

actually rdm can melee and do their jobs perfectly fine, but it is kinda pointless. The reason being is all the equipment swaps that are used for each and every spell, which usually involve the use of a staff, which rdm have no skill in. If a rdm does not use different equipment for each and every spell that is the reason they suck, not because they are engaged with an enemy and mindlessly swinging a damn stick that does not get them TP or skill. Sword swinging rdm's dont suck because they melee, they suck because they just suck.


For the record i have never melee'd in an exp party.

[Elcura]

I don't care if a RDM melee's before 51, as long as they do their job. But around level 40 without at least a stat boosting wand your enfeebles are gonna suck and miss alot. After 51, you better have at least an ice and dark staff.

[Akiro]

ill get you a light staff cause guess what your main cureing, and dont forget my refresh. quaa quaa

[Elcura]

Only if you're my brd, past 55. I'm not main healing shit with 3mp/tick with 3-4 refreshes going and haste for the tank, along with debuffing.

[Demetrick]

its annoying as shit when rdm's melee for the 1-15dmg, giving mobs TP, thus spamming more TP moves. This is why god invented subtle-blow options.

[Byrd]

actually rdm can melee and do their jobs perfectly fine, but it is kinda pointless. The reason being is all the equipment swaps that are used for each and every spell, which usually involve the use of a staff, which rdm have no skill in. If a rdm does not use different equipment for each and every spell that is the reason they suck, not because they are engaged with an enemy and mindlessly swinging a damn stick that does not get them TP or skill. Sword swinging rdm's dont suck because they melee, they suck because they just suck.

Well put. For a long time I was a sword-swinging RDM, and then finally kind of woke up one day and got my head out of my ass (around level 70, about 30 levels too late.... sorry to everyone I partied with). Yes, I could swing a sword, Refresh, back-up cure, magic burst, enfeeble, but I wasn't as good at any of it as I could have been. The little bit of damage that RDM do with their sword doesn't make up for the extra TP they are giving the mob or the reduced effectiveness of their enfeebles (or cures w/o Light Staff).

Now virtually every spell I have has a staff or wand programmed into it, and I'm in a situation where I'm compelled to melee, I put those macroed weapons into my bazaar so they can't be swapped in.

I don't know why I was stuck in the "I can melee" rut for so long, but get over it. More powerful enfeebles, cures, bursts, etc. are so much more important to the long term success of a party. Using Ice staff on Paralyze and one Distortion or Darkness burst will more than make up for the ~200 damage you've done with your sword.

[MrWatermonkey]

I had this one pt at around lvl 50 on whm. The pld bitched for poisona between fights when I had no mp. Than he told me i was noob and Aertumis(who?) was most uber pld on server. Than i asked why our rdm/nin dual wielding wands was meleeing(cough blazer). He said he could do his job meleeing which he obviously could not. Than they all called me noobs bleh bleh. So I waited till they pulled a mob and warped. weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee :D

[Carbon]

That's pretty sad if you get your MP below 8 before you can defeat a mob.

[Blazer]

Hey when FFXI first came out to NAs, all most of us had as a guide was dumb old Bradygames who promoted the viability of rdm/nin. Needless to say, we're much more informed thse days.