So you saying this should go to blu because rdm get dalmatica? You kidding right. That would be like saying thf should get strider boots over rng, because rng can wear crimson.
Not quite, because RDM is the best choice to receive a Dalmatica in its own right, but RNG is *not* the best choice to receive W.Legs in its own right. Furthermore, like it or not, Dalmaticas are far more common than Morrigans.
With this body a rdm would not ever have to place anything else in that slot (except af2 body for shadows and af+1 for resting.) Trading 2 int/mnd for 1 tic is a very reasonable loss. Your reply would be that we can switch body but guess what so can blu to royal cloak; and switching out you will be lossing a tic or 2 and with rdm we gear swap alot.
As I said before, RDM can get pretty much full effectiveness between mage stats (which only kick in for an instant, at the time any given spell goes off) even when swapping gears. Wear Dalmatica all the time except when you need another body piece for a buff (mainly Stoneskin) or debuff, and then macro in that other body piece for only a second or two for when the spell goes off, and then put the Dalmatica back on and go back to regenerating MP.
Melee stats, however, are like auto-refresh - you want them to be in place more or less all the time, not just at specific moments. So no, it's not equivalent to say that BLU can equip swap. A BLU who doesn't melee and only does damage with their spells could do that, I agree - and maybe for specific endgame situations that's more viable. But for the vast majority of things BLUs do, they're meleeing too. For the vast majority of things RDMs do, they're not.
RDMs are better off with Morrigan's for nuking, and they can use it to avoid *hassling* their equipment, but they *can* both get magely stats at the time of debuffs, and get auto-refresh when standing around, without this. BLUs *cannot* get both auto-refresh and good melee stats when standing around (meleeing), without this. That is the distinction. If you can't understand that, please stay out of this discussion.
why would a rdm need str acc and atk, because when shadow tanking most of the slots are filled with haste and enm+ gear, and /war would be alot of phy down gear along with enm+ gear. If you are able to hit mob you will generate better longer hate, and while 8str and 5acc/atk won't do much, it is still the best tank/solo/exp/hnm body a rdm can wear. Blu can not say they can replace all there bodys with this 1 piece rdm can. Leaving the dalmatica for the blm and brds.
It's good for solo yes, and I would not have any qualms about giving a Morrigans to a skilled solo RDM with a lot of good solo gear (Avesta's the easy example), over a BLU. However, most RDMs solo just to mess around and don't really do much with that solo and don't have *other* good gear to really pimp out their solo effectiveness. So it would be a waste to give them *this* for solo effectiveness when they don't have other stuff.
Exp, Dalmatica's equivalent to this (hint: RDMs don't need the world's awesomest debuffs for exp, and indeed you probably don't have the MP to do much more than Dia 2/3 anyway unless you drag another mage along to pick up your slack). In fact, without AF2 hat even a Vermy is honestly equivalent although you'd need some more clever macros to swap your AF hat in and out real quick at the beginning of any spell where you cared about its fast cast.
HNM, this has no -enmity to avoid pulling hate, and it has no +skill to land stuff on more resistant mobs. Dalmatica shouldn't have been a full-time HNM piece for RDMs before Salvage came out, and Morrigans isn't a full-time HNM piece for RDMs now. And as already mentioned, in cases that *do* call for auto-refresh plus an INT/MND body (as opposed to, say, AF body and its enfeebling skill), Dalmatica and Errant/Crimson and some clever macros can accomplish that just as well.
Tanking, I can't comment on, because I never really understood how RDMs could get hate when tanking to begin with. (I can understand how they can avoid bleeding hate, what with Phalanx Stoneskin Utsu/Blink, but I never did quite get how they got it in the first place.)
So no, RDM can't replace all their bodies with this one piece. It's a convenient combination and an inventory saver but it's not really anything they couldn't have accomplished before.
Oh and, lol at the bit about Dalmatica and BLMs.
EDIT:
ha I have better gear then 90% of rdms only things im missing are dalmatica, af2 hat(been trying for 2 years dam thing just wont drop), and crimson mail, and of course salvage items with those my gear will be complete.
So is there any particular reason you like to wear Chasuble everywhere if you're so wonderfully pimped out? I mean, I find it hard to believe this claim when a level 58 AF-wearing RDM, or a level 72 el-cheapo-Errant-wearing RDM (between those two body pieces, that would be most RDMs on the server) has a better body piece than you do.
