Frida the Red mage - 1 Year I KNOW WHAT TO WEAR

[Tajin]

Dia, dispel, haste, refresh, cure....nothing more really.

So, if two RDMs were standing and avaliable for you to pick to a party, which one do you pick?, the naked (or wearing event gear), or the one wearing useful AF pieces and stuff.

Talking specifically about RDMs (and maybe WHMs), if it were a BRD, you can just pick them both

[HAcoreRD]

Dia, dispel, haste, refresh, cure....nothing more really.

So, if two RDMs were standing and avaliable for you to pick to a party, which one do you pick?, the naked (or wearing event gear), or the one wearing useful AF pieces and stuff.

Talking specifically about RDMs (and maybe WHMs), if it were a BRD, you can just pick them both

This idiot came with a bard. Problem being, the bard was having trouble sleeping the birdies. As in, Horde Lullaby was being resisted and reflected onto us. Hell I think the bard came close to death many times, and me and the Onimaru Sam had to dump 2hrs just to kill 1 bird each.

[Tajin]

I mean: RDM vs. RDM, WHM vs. WHM, BRD vs. BRD situations

[Kyreth]

Dia, dispel, haste, refresh, cure....nothing more really.

So, if two RDMs were standing and avaliable for you to pick to a party, which one do you pick?, the naked (or wearing event gear), or the one wearing useful AF pieces and stuff.

Talking specifically about RDMs (and maybe WHMs), if it were a BRD, you can just pick them both

This idiot came with a bard. Problem being, the bard was having trouble sleeping the birdies. As in, Horde Lullaby was being resisted and reflected onto us. Hell I think the bard came close to death many times, and me and the Onimaru Sam had to dump 2hrs just to kill 1 bird each.

A bard stupid enough to toss the equivalent of Sleepga at colibiri needs his head examined.

[Popsiclestick]

Dia, dispel, haste, refresh, cure....nothing more really.

So, if two RDMs were standing and avaliable for you to pick to a party, which one do you pick?, the naked (or wearing event gear), or the one wearing useful AF pieces and stuff.

Talking specifically about RDMs (and maybe WHMs), if it were a BRD, you can just pick them both

This idiot came with a bard. Problem being, the bard was having trouble sleeping the birdies. As in, Horde Lullaby was being resisted and reflected onto us. Hell I think the bard came close to death many times, and me and the Onimaru Sam had to dump 2hrs just to kill 1 bird each.

Colibri learn resisted songs?

Granted I only exp'd off of regular colibri as bard at level 61 once, it would never fire back a resisted spell =3

[Jer]

Colibri learn resisted songs?

Aye

[evilbau]

I think it is hilarious that she was ok with you posting this lol.

probably because posting this is pretty petty

[Kainstryder]

This is why you merit with linkshell members only. Never EVER expect pick up parties to go anywhere but down, but if not, always check who's inviting you and who's in the party. Also, if your party is naive and wants to camp when there's 5-6 parties fighting for mobs and they don't wanna go to an old school camp for 10k+ an hour, then you're better off just leaving. I wouldn't stick in that party past 5 mins if the RDM was doing that bad.

My one question is, what seriously made you stay in a party with a kraken THF on fucking birds, a BRD that is using horde lullaby and/or failing to sleep to the point the gimp RDM is also failing? Onimaru SAM isn't THAT bad, if they wanna use it over Hagun, let them, maybe they don't have one, who knows. As long as they play their job correctly I wouldn't care what they're using. If people suck past 10 mins just go, don't put yourself through that crap.

[Alistaire]

If mobs live long enough for para or slow to make any difference you are doing things wrong. It doesn't matter what a rdm wears, as long as he has all spells.

Dia, dispel, haste, refresh, cure....nothing more really. Then again, I havn't been in a non 2bard pt in a long while

You can cast slow on the next mob while it's slept. It also has the added benefit of delaying its normal attacks for a moment while it casts slow on whatever hasted person it chooses. and it's not that they live long enough to slow, it's that that's pretty much all that needs to be done on quite a few mobs. So little curing needed with a good party it's just nuts. Sometimes I get bored and try to time a bliz 3 to kill one when convert is at 30 seconds to go and i'm still over 50% mp.

[Shadowrunner]

Colibri learn resisted songs?

Aye

News to me, /shrug.

However, A RDM that isn't fully geared doesn't bother me as much as a Bard getting resists like claimed. That's just not pretty ;-;. I maybe get resisted once a round of EXP, twice should i get unlucky. Never horrible enough to merit using Horde at all.

[Tomiko]

Sam (with Onimaru wtf?)

Onimaru isn't that bad anymore. Hagun or Soboro still win in merits, but I can understand sporting an Onimaru while you save up the gil for a Hagun.

[quoteyvyjhoa]Don't worry guys, she's been a RDM for a year, and in this time she has mastered what not to wear to Merit burns, such as anything with INT, or RDM AF. Anything red at all.

I never carry INT-specific gear to a merit party. Why waste the inventory?[/quoteyvyjhoa]

I fail to see the point of Int gear as well unles they were planning on using skillchains and having the Rdm MB

[HAcoreRD]

Sam (with Onimaru wtf?)

Onimaru isn't that bad anymore. Hagun or Soboro still win in merits, but I can understand sporting an Onimaru while you save up the gil for a Hagun.

[quote:vthkqq2x]Don't worry guys, she's been a RDM for a year, and in this time she has mastered what not to wear to Merit burns, such as anything with INT, or RDM AF. Anything red at all.

I never carry INT-specific gear to a merit party. Why waste the inventory?

I fail to see the point of Int gear as well unles they were planning on using skillchains and having the Rdm MB [/quote:vthkqq2x]

INt would've helped her sleeps land since the bard's (Horde) Lullaby wasn't sticking

[Isiolia]

INT barely matters for Sleep. Need Enfeebling skill and the proper staff. Gear she had on was netting her negative accuracy due to Light staff.

[Thistle]

This is why you merit with linkshell members only

^^^^ That.

[TacoTaru]

Colibri learn resisted songs?

Aye

News to me, /shrug.

However, A RDM that isn't fully geared doesn't bother me as much as a Bard getting resists like claimed. That's just not pretty ;-;. I maybe get resisted once a round of EXP, twice should i get unlucky. Never horrible enough to merit using Horde at all.

News to me as well since I've had my fair share of Elegy and Lullaby before I updated alot of my gear and never had the spell reflected back on me.

[Similli]

IIRC colibri don't fire back songs that are resisted. I haven't meritted on BRD in awhile but I do remember every now and then I would get Elegy resisted and it wouldn't bother stopping to try to reflect it onto me.

Only merit w/ BRD's with max lullaby recast! They should be able to blink tank or equip enough -dmg if they're /WHM to wait the small amount of time to recast Foe lullaby. Horde = fail on birds. Thats what would interrupt chains for me sometimes (especially if I was /NIN not WHM).

[Ashira]

I think Frida needs to read my "fussing about RDM gear" thread! :D

[Tonko]

A suggestion to all BRD/NIN out there who merit on Colibris:

Don't sleep your pulls.

That's right. No lullaby. Just utsu-tank them. With Elegy on, you can get off Utsu: Ichi in between normal melee attacks. And they NEVER double attack.

[LinktheDeme]

dude it's a freakin rdm in colibri merits with a bard

give em a light staff and a dark staff and they're set

If the rdm has blu sub they don't even need a dark staff.

I don't see how a rdm wouldn't need dark staff if they subbed blu. Or even why blu sub would be more desirable than blm sub. (only comparing the two subs)

[Similli]

A suggestion to all BRD/NIN out there who merit on Colibris:

Don't sleep your pulls.

That's right. No lullaby. Just utsu-tank them. With Elegy on, you can get off Utsu: Ichi in between normal melee attacks. And they NEVER double attack.

That sounds incredibly inefficient because:

A. If my melee are voking them after they're pulled the melee are now either being forced to cast Utsusemi and tank them instead of killing the LAST mob, or get hit.

B. I can't go running back to mages and ballad them because I'm now both tanking and having to wait near the melee so they can move to the next mob

C. If i'm pulling right as they kill the last I most likely wont be able to ballad mages at all unless my melee are killing at an abnormally slow rate to the point where I have time to go run back to mages spend 4.5-8 seconds (depending on gear) singing a song and then go run out to pull another. While that doesn't sound long in reality at colibri with some of the longer pulls and the time waiting for them to reflect songs and get back to camp, thats pretty slow killing time.

D. If I don't have a ton of -song casting/fastcast I probably will get hit trying to sing melee songs then have to try and throw up Utsusemi.

Who cares if you single target sleep a colibri? They're reflect casting time is about the same amount of time as a melee swing so whoever eats it (which is usually the BRD anyways right after they wake up, I still don't quite understand this when another melee has hate) would lose the same amount of shadows just letting the colibri melee them. If one person gets slept its not exactly difficult to wake 1 person. Also if you're killing REALLY fast (25k+) you usually want to have 2-3 colibri sitting by your melee so you have enough time to buff mages/melee anyways because your killing so fast. This is even with Minstrel/Gomlek/Loq/Rostrum for me.