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Wow, that does look like sh*t. haha...

Galka can get a 1k/1k convert ratio?

For other mage jobs, people can make the case that MP pool isn't so important because all races recover MP at the same rate.

But it's different for an RDM using convert. With a Taru, you can balance out your HP and MP and thus have the most efficient converts, giving you a significant extra amount of MP every 10 minutes.

The other stats aren't really that important. Tarus have insanely high INT but somewhat lower MND--this balances out and doesn't make much difference in my opinion.

The worst races for RDM are Elvaan and Galka, because they are severely lacking in MP, the RDM's most important trait.

Until you factor in things like sanction/sigil/blood of vampyr, in which case you do NOT recover mp at the same rate. Also, ugly pendant activates sooner for tarus, and since they have much more mp, it's much more viable to keep it active 100% of the time.

By this logic race matters less for rdm. With my current gear (which admittedly sucks), my taru only has around the same mp for vert as my elvaan had (with very good gear). Of course once i get better gear, i'll have more with my taru, but still, not too much more, and my elvaan could have had an extra 100~ mp if i bothered to uncurse my zfeet/legs, and got some other gear. Humes can usually get better vert sets, because of their higher hp.

Of course only have 100~300 more mp in vert gear than in your lowest gear set is a pretty decent advantage instead of being stuck with 500+ more, and having to cast a spell in full mp gear, and hope it doesn't resist and get you killed. So even still, max mp matters.


They don't even come close to balancing out. Taru has 13 more int than elvaan, but only 8 less mnd. Plus, int is 10x more useful than mnd, so yeah. Not even close.

Except no one would ever need to max out hp. The only time hp is important is for drk zergs.

You can think you do, but you don't actually. Unless all you do is melee things that don't require any significant amount of mp, then you'd be better off as taru. The difference may not be enough to matter for you, but it'd still be better.

As a WHM myself, I've never understood this. I see WHMs all the time who talk about a max HP set for Devotion. What's the point of switching to a max HP set and spending MP to cure yourself to full in order to use Devotion?

You know what? I was thinking of Martyr. Jesus, I need to stop posting on days I'm hung over; I apparently can't think straight.

Edited, Apr 21st 2010 6:37pm by chewzer

Martyr is only really good for the rare case when you don't have ANY mp to cure, or not enough and someone is about to bite the dust. With the ability of convert, that case will be even less that what it is now.

I forget how much hp I usually cure for with Martyr (since its rare), but I think its a free "Cure 4.5". In that case, if you only have enough mp for a cure or cure II, I think it would be better curing yourself and Martyring someone else. This is given the fact that the cure II or cure would probably make up the Hp difference but not do anything to prevent the imminent death.

Did you read the rest of the post?!?!

I hope you were being sarcastic. Even then, that would question your reading/comprehension



You mean how people don't take the 5 seconds to read a post before making an argument




If it's only 25% then you're right.. I hardly ever use that ability. That reduces the only use of Martyr for when you have no mp to use.

It actually takes away 25%, but cures 50%.

Doesn't change the fact that it would be fucking retarded to cure yourself for 100 just to give someone else 50.

Or no white magic pathos.

Or muted.