RDM Gear Choices For Para/Slow

well you arent casting para/slow on birds at all so OP MP IS THE WAY TO GO FOR XPING AND MERITING

Assuming your xping/merit on greater colibri... all others para/slow is fine. Actually I'd cast it on them. Be funny if you para'd them then they tried to cast it back and then got para'd out of it. I'd keep doing that just to get a SS of it. Also he asked how to stack mnd all the way and not be gimp mp.

Imo. Stack MP gear while XP'ing on RDM, if you want more MND for Para/Slow, Eat a Goblin Mushpot, Lasts for 3 hours and gives +10 MND.

Thanks a lot for the opinions guys ^^

And Liir, I completely forgot about Mushpots, thanks for reminding me! (which also lead me to remember mushroom stews XD)

I guess for now I'll carry on EXP'ing in MP gear for now, as seems to be the common ideal ^^

Insect ring is fail, always.

It is worse than a 5 Stat ring (snow, aqua) in terms of pure accurcy, and adds no potency.

The only time insect ring is worth using is when you can't afford half decent rings in the first place.

Omega and balrahn's ring win against anything in terms of pure m.acc

Well yeah but it is much easier to get then omega/balhrahns and t here are a few spells that don't seem to get acc from any stat... that would be the 1 use for it well other than maybe the resist lol.

The only spells that don't get m.acc from stats is Drain/aspir (arguably), everything else follows the whole set of rules about dINT>10 blah blah

Several blu debuffs don't which would be the only time I have every brought that ring out lol

Ahh trust blu to mess things up, I was refering to 'conventional' spells (as this is a rdm thread)

Yeah blus are weird like that... getting all the really cool debuffs. Why can't my rdm get a -MDB gdi!?! Or one that gives plague/disease?

its not SE's fault youre too lazy to unlock death blossom and get some awesome rdm tp gear!

Ws Does not equal spell gdi! Also that's magic evasion down not -MDB

Blu going for macc should be using balrahn's/omega, so insect ring is still fail.

And to Integral, why the hell wouldn't you be casting slow on colibri, you should be doing haste on yourself and the tank at a bare minimum so it's always going to have no effect when it casts it back on you.

I don't have an einherjar ls QQ while insect ring is soloable

i dont really get what you all have against high mp in idle set o.O

i mean i am mithra with not uber high mp, but 960ish isnt bad either. there is a shitload of spells where i can stay at this level of MP. Like Cure (IV), Haste and Refresh with "full" fastcast gear equiped, SS with fastcast+enough MND, Phalanx with gear for phalanx 29. thats alot of spells to burn MP you have "over" and hell even if you "loose" 200 mp for enfeeblings... RDM get them back fast anyways and as other ppl said already, you arent full mp often anyways... but this isnt a reason to not have many mp in idle set ._.

and to leveling rdm, as many said already, just have a high MP set and get enfeebling magic gear over potency gear for your enfeeble while leveling. so you can silence Imps easy and such. You wont really enfeeble colibris much beside Dia.

It depends on the situation obviously but for meriting on birds and exping on the ones that reflect ***obviously just MP ***, it would be utterly HELP I AM TRAPPED IN 2006 PLEASE SEND A TIME MACHINE to use anything else but max MP for this.

For instance me in a merit party on birds i'll full-time dalmatica AF2 hat and zenith legs sometimes the feet also but usually i stick to goliard, i have to wear a BQ ring to pull it off since i'm a taru but hey guess what? MND is LOL unless you are enfeebling anyway and any RDM who enfeebles birds is pretty damn foolish.

Slow? thats what Elegy is for and it's plenty enough for even a shitty tank, you should be more concerned with hasting and keeping people alive than casting this, especially since people invite you to fulfill a WHM role only to do it better, very rarely will you see a WHM casting slow so why should you?

Can't tell you how many times i've seen people get caught with shadows down on a /nin or nin job and our main healing rdm was too busy fukin around with casting this instead of curing like a whm would and the DD eats a pecking flurry and bam! dead.

Besides in any decent party the bird will be slowed enough from elegy that they only get a few attack rounds off before dying anyway so it's just an inefficient use of MP to cast it on every mob every 30 seconds or so. In a good party you should be enough strained for MP from hasting and curing alone to bother with this especially since elegy is much more powerful.

Para? Yah could be useful until someone dies because you cant get a paralyna cast off on yourself so again would be stupid.

The only debuff you should ever even cast there is Dia II or 3 if you have and this doesn't really matter a MND mod as far as i know.

I guess this only applies though to Birds and parties that invite you as the only mage, if for some really stupid reason (maybe the leader is HELP I AM TRAPPED IN 2006 PLEASE SEND A TIME MACHINE) you find yourself in a different situation: Then is when you should probably disband because it's probably going to be slow exp.

So yah MP all the way, sorry for the long post but don't even worry about MND unless you start doing HNM type ***as rdm and by then the MND gear choices are fairly obvious, or if you for some wierd reason u are not the main healer and are doing the thing which rdm is actually A+ at, otherwise pretty much just MP *** it since ur basically just a whm with refresh 99% of the time.

I don't use elegy as brd on birds <_< chakram pull ftw.

I'm 71 atm so passed the middle level colibris, and I have to say that saying 'Well the birds reflect it back on you or other pt members ; ;' is a horrible reason not enfeeble them. Keep haste on yourself (even easier with composure) and 75% of the time they would cast my Slow back on me which had no effect. In the event if casts it on someone else I was always on top of hasting them asap. Same with Blind...oh no, the RDM is blinded! lol. Doesn't take but a second to take it off the others if you're on top of things. Generally I stayed away from paralyze, cause I hate interuptions from being paralyzed lol, and don't really want the pld to be paralyzed trying cure themself in a critical moment.

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enfeeb you should ever put on a bird is Dia II, it's like free 12%+ dmg atk boost and ONLY to the bird you are fighting and know how to target something.

The rest is a waste of time unless the party really suckz.

And whoever said MND was LOL can just go retire their RDM now. An SS with a full mnd build + af pants make the world a safe place for you when you pull hate. Also MND increases the likelyhood of your blinks taking the damage. It's priceless.

Note: Haven't read the rest of the thread, just the OP.

First off, having a lot of MND isn't really that important in exp. If your tanks are slightly competent on most exp mobs, Slow/Para won't make a huge difference in your exp/hr.

Secondly, get P Rope. If you're serious about RDM at 75, and you don't have Witch's Sash, get P Rope. It seems to me you put too much emphasis on MP. I understand you're an Elvaan but (ignoring the fact that you have other jobs) Serket Ring, Astral Earring, etc. I don't know what you plan on doing with your RDM at 75, though.

Once you're at 75, you'll want a full MND set, an INT/Enfeebling Skill/Magic ACC set, your MP/healing set, your convert set, and a nuking set at the least. Other simple sets help a lot. For example, I've got my idle set that puts on Refresh/Regen/Move Speed gear, a Stoneskin set that'll give me just enough MND to cap my stoneskin, a physical defense set, etc etc. If you're a nerd like me you can write an XML that'll handle all your gear swaps and such with spellcast, too. My spellcast adjusts my gear swaps based on how much MP I have left (and various other things, like subjob). If you really have a lot of free time on your hands, you can actually set up spellcast to use different sets of gear for fighting different types of monsters.

Hope this helps some, lol.

is this true? lol I have never heard of such tomfoolery

For me it's really situational. I have one set for all the spells I use typically containing "max mp", in the way where I can fit in as much potency/skill as I wish, and still keep my mp at a high. Useful in parties where mobs die quick, like exp/nyzul and some events(limbus,dynamis)

For when I solo, I cast in max potency 90% of the time. Most of the mobs RDM can solo you will be able to land your debuffs in potency gear with capped enf merits/skill. Only difficulty I had was vs cactrot rapido and poison II, but he is strong vs water, so that explains it. When you hit 75 and find soloing interesting, 5/5 in slow II along with a very potent potency setup in MND blows most things out of the water, and I strongly suggest it.

For your level where you dont have alot of access to enf. skill and your enf. skill might be uncapped(due to level sync), I would not mind with potency at all tbh. If the colibri is slowed by 15% or 17.2% does not really matter for your PLD, and I doubt he will even notice the difference.

Screw Rapido. So many times I've had to spend 300-400 MP just to get him Poisoned again. HATE

Yeah, and I always cast in HQ staff/grip and max enfeeble skill on(excluding AF2 hat, I only have crimson mask) He can resist pretty bad lol.

Well I guess if less attacks and less attacks landed is something you don't want than you can do whichever. Personally I find Slow and Blind save me mp in the end.

By the time I have casted slow and blind(and blindna on a melee) the mob is dead, or should be. Any slower kills and the merit isnt worth my time:P Im not an elitist ***, but merit is so boring that I do demand some killspeed in it. I'm not often on RDM though, mostly DD.

Really your saying all mobs your fighting from the lvl spread this guy gave die in about 10 sec? Man you must have had some insanely great pts from 50-75

Was refering to merits, my bad for not pointing that out. And I agree with Bojack that debuffs on the earlier levels help alot:)

:o I didn't even know about that.

Try it yourself. MND yourself and enhancegear and cast. The next 3 attacks will get absorbed.

INT yourself and cast, it will then proc on random.