On Red Mage melee...

[Swords]

You must have played with some really terrible sams because there is no way a RDM will out dmg a sam by 80%.

He didn't say the RDM out DD'd the SAM, he said the RDM was able to output damage up too 80% of what the SAM had done. IE: If the SAM did 1000 damage the RDM was doing 800.

Culture? Saboteur was meant to make spells last longer, not for you to cast spells with it then melee with your pitiful weapons.

Actually, spellcasting is one of the biggest burdens to RDM, any old school RDM like myself knows your constantly casting debuffs, cures, buffs and reapplying as necessary is almost non-stop in a battle. Truthfully that's also one of the biggest blockaids to a RDM meleeing, because casting effects your overall DoT and TP gain for WS's in battle.

And neither of them will help rdm melee unless SE decides to cater to this crap, lol.

Hey it worked for SAM's when they bitched and moaned about being second tier DD's prior to all the boosts they got.