Possible new RDM spells and abilities in the dats.Follow

If we can stop bickering at each other for a moment and collectively drool a lake at the base of our "Warlock's Chateau", I'd like to direct everyone's attention to the following:



According to Sho on BG, this is the current going list for the Player Abilities:

265/25 = "cor_cd01" (COR Roll)
265/26 = "rdm_quik"
265/27 = "dnc_flt"
265/28 = "rnd_dama"
265/29 = "drg_skin"
265/30 = "blu_altm"
265/31 = "pup_rset"
265/32 = "cor_cd01" (COR Roll)
265/33 = "cor_cd01" (COR Roll)
265/36-99 = "sam_sc" (SC effect for different races & weapons)
265/100 = "war_wsup"
265/101 = "whm_resm"

Spells:
265/34 = "stun"
266/63 = "stri" (White Magic)
266/64 = "brave1" (White Magic)
266/65 = "comet1"
266/67 = "kal3" (Bard Song)

Brave is an oooold idea I used to have and hopefully it's something RDM is getting. The 'stri' spell looks like an Enspell as well.

rdm_quik is likely a JA version of quickcast: That controlable double cast we've been talking about for quite a while.

*rubs hands together*

Looks like I'll be setting myself up for dissapointment again. I'm just a glutton for excitement.

Edited, Jul 11th 2011 6:57pm by Hyrist

Looking at it, I'm really not sure which animation is supposed to be rdm_quik...

I know the viewer defaults to target spells landing on the caster, but zooming out and comet suddenly plopping made me lol.

Otherwise, kinda hard to estimate beyond what little the DAT names say. Looking at some of the BLU spells, I'd almost say they're getting HNM moves and possibly even one from Caturae if I saw things right. And with those come more possible traits, so dunno, hard to be excited for RDM as is.

I suppose that's fair. Honestly I believe RDM is a class that plays by degrees, and that sort of concept in and of itself is dated in a playing field where everything is about how fast you can get things done.

I'm excited more for Brave than anything else, if anyone else remembers, I pitched that idea years and years ago to have that spell.

I am, however, curious as to this enspell at 1:38, it just doesn't look like any of the others. Yet, I don't think it has anything to do with status alignments either.

Anyone gander a guess?

Probably trying hard to justify that Magic Burst Bonus trait.

I find quick magic to be more bothersome than not. Especially as /NIN, lord knows how many shadows ive wasted recently because quick magic likes to fire when I still have 1-2 up and am timing my casts to finish as the mob should be stripping my last shadow. (not to mention my Ichi over Ni timing is gone to all hell when it procs and im unable to manual drop the last ni shadow before cast. So many wasted tools.)

You're not quite grasping how my macros work despite chatter on the SE board. Fair enough, though, since I've not actually shared. This is my nuke macro for Blizz 4.

alias staffswap varuna; 
exec RDM/Alias/rdm_fast_cast.txt; 
staffstatus; 
input /recast "Blizzard IV"; 
input /ma "Blizzard IV" <t>; 
wait 1; 
nukestatus;

Now, varuna is an alias I have set to equip that particular staff and grip of my choosing. Staffstatus is my toggle function that decides whether or not I actually swap. As you can see, I equip my FC gear prior to the cast, the staff itself also having its own Ice FC. One second into the nuke, I swap to gear focusing either on damage or accuracy via nukestatus. Granted, that's more a holdover from the 75 days, but something I'm going to keep around just in case stuff at 99 brings us back to the days of an ideal INT/Ele skill for given mobs.

Basically, using Quick magic, I can't use this macro twice in succession as one will wind up firing in the FC gear.

Edited, Jul 13th 2011 3:44pm by Seriha

What Hyrist said. It's pretty much the same check you make when Chainspell is active.

That's exactly where it would get written in.

Perhaps it's time to use it. Otherwise you can always seperate your fast cast and nuke prompts in your macros. This is still assuming you cannot write the script check into your fast cast to begin with.

Oh the woe of having to press one more extra button. Shall I tell you what I did before spellcast?

It also presents the question: What do you do for chainspell?

Edited, Jul 13th 2011 6:04pm by Hyrist

I've had the same sorts of problems happen. Quick magic is nice, don't get me wrong, but the random nature of it can be just as much of a blessing as a bane (the only experience I have with it is from Abyssea since I don't have WotG complete). If it's in the pipes for Quick to be incorporated, it will HOPEFULLY be a 100% proc (1 proc probably) so that potential strategic elements can be incorporated into the spell (firing off quick raises, some nukes, etc.). Mileage may vary between people, I'm sure, but a controlled Quick proc would offer a new angle to casting for red mages.